People have been asking me to debunk this thread "proving" that COVID-19 deaths are false positives by correlating things, but instead I thought I'd simply list a few things that are more well correlated than this
https://twitter.com/ClareCraigPath/status/1317009608448290816
US spending on science, and suicides by hanging/strangulation/suffocation
99.97%
"Biology just isn't like that"
99.97%
"Biology just isn't like that"
Divorce in Maine, consumption of margarine
99.26%
"Biology just isn't like that"
99.26%
"Biology just isn't like that"
Arcade revenue and computer science doctorates
98.51%
"Biology just isn't like that"
98.51%
"Biology just isn't like that"
These are all from the excellent Spurious Correlations website from Tyler Vigen, who also has a book out of the same name tylervigen.com/spurious-corre…
Anyway, it's perhaps not surprising that COVID-19 positive tests in hospital and deaths from COVID-19 would track somewhat, so there's not really much to debunk
No, most COVID-19 aren't false positives, even in hospital, no matter what conspiracy theorists on twitter say medium.com/@gidmk/most-po…
Oh, also, the second half of the thread can basically be explained by changes in testing between March and September, no resorting to vast government conspiracies required!
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