The @CDCgov not faultless in this data failure, but Florida epidemiologists knew, or should have known, Floridians were not informed of the extraordinarily high infection and death rate in the state.
Of the 10 worst weeks since 5/1/2021, based on excess deaths, 5 were in Florida
One criticism of the @TB_Times article of my original post.
The Florida change in the reporting of weekly death data, greatly deceived Floridians (and the media).
Florida reported to CDC 334 deaths for week ending 8/26, but people were dying at twice normal rate of 3652/day?
So while people had been dying in Florida at a rate of 2000+ COVID deaths and 3000+ excess deaths for multiple weeks, Florida had been reporting weekly deaths which appeared to be in the low hundreds.
The second piece of data on this Florida weekly report published Aug 27?
Deaths: 396
But look back.
2796 actually died the week ending Aug 28. 800-900 other "excess deaths" that week as well.
Epidemiological Best Practices: No
Deception. Yes.
So far, just scratching the surface of active deception in Florida to seemingly intentionally infect a large population in some sick variolation experiment, i.e., vaccination through infection.
The death toll of the @gbdeclaration variolation experiment?
About 30k, and counting
So what to do to counter such active deception?
@CDCgov and State agencies need to publish 7-day averages of daily COVID deaths counted, and also publish a % excess deaths number.
If you knew people were dying at twice the normal rate, would you take more precautions?
There is still a path for @joy4ok vs. @ChuckHoskin_Jr in the general, and it would immensely raise 2022 participation within the Five Nations and others.
And it would be refreshing to have a positive general campaign season, for once.
IMO, in Oklahoma, a Conservative Democratic administration is equivalent to a Moderate (i.e., not insurrectionist) Republican administration.
All Oklahomans who are against the current path of the Oklahoma GQP, maybe should look at both angles.
That means that every Republican primary should have a moderate Republican challenger, and EVERY office/seat should have a Democratic challenger, if only to improve turnout among Oklahomans who want a more sane path for Oklahoma politics.
They did it to spread disinformation, set up excuse for the deaths, and most disgustingly,
To Astroturf for DeSantis.
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/2 At the time of this post, the debunked @CarlyAtch tweet of Thursday had 76 retweets, the first being from the Press Secretary of Florida Governor DeSantis, Christina Pushaw.
Coordination, or coincidence?
/3 On my scan through the 76 retweets, I found 4 (allegedly) Oklahoma-based posters, 2 being institutional, and 2 appeared to spam retweet dozens of GOP-propaganda tweets daily.
This was the report that @GovStitt refused to post on the OSDH site, and it called for aggressive measures that Stitt did not implement.
Stitt hates Oklahomans.
What was also bad about @GovStitt not sharing the 12/13/20 Coronavirus Task Force Report?
Just prior to that report, deaths in Oklahoma began to spike, and via their hospital monitoring, Stitt knew or should have known about that rapid increase in deaths.
Comments and update, including areas under investigation, follows.
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Comments: FOX 23 and KFOR have asked OSDH and Interim Commissioner Frye about discrepancies between death certificate data, considered the gold standard by CDC, and the number of deaths underreported by the State. No meaningful explanation was given. (more)
2/ In fact, CDC death certificate data often takes weeks to be received tabulated, so the undercount may be much higher than the current 391 death difference. Based on 156 deaths being reported in the past 7 days, the CDC undercount could easily be several hundred. (more)