First COVID-19 death in USA was on Feb 28, less than two months ago

[stopbush]

So why are all the deniers comparing to-date COVID mortality numbers to the YEARLY numbers of other causes of death? And to causes of death that are not due to a contagion?

Bad comparison.

[RockRaven]

1. Because the deniers are dishonest? Because they are assuming their audience is innumerate?

It is not an accident, that much is certain.

[Blue_true]

2. Because they are fucking idiots.

They first started out comparing the H1N1 deaths to covid19 deaths when very few people had died of covid19. Not that the covid19 death level has blown way past H1N1 and looks like will blow past a chronically severe flu season, the rightwing talking heads are looking at numbers that might not get passed, like annual auto accident deaths. The current comparison is part of the moving fog of bullshit that the right is using to try to make Trump look remotely competent.

[robbob]

3. Don't forget the 360,000 swimming pool deaths every year,

according to “Dr.” Phil. A bald face lie, and probably a deliberate one at that.

[Blue_true]

6. Wow, when you wrote 360,000 swimming pool deaths, I was like where, on Venus?

Yeah, they will toss out all types of misinformation for the uninformed to lap up as facts.

[Sapient Donkey]

4. Because people are stupid and/or dishonest

They also look at the numbers and are like "see, it's not as bad as the claimed it would be. We didn't need to do all this shutdown and social distancing crap!!!". Not sure if they are being willfully ignorant or are simply incapable of understanding that the actions taken are what prevented those numbers from being worse. I suppose the way things are going, we are now going to see this last much longer thanks to their stupidity and inability/unwillingness to view the bigger picture.

[wishstar]

5. Media is not focusing enough on daily and total US death totals that are now astronomical

In just two months time even with considerable social distancing and shutdowns, we will have lost over 50,000 victims in addition to all the other expected deaths in a normal year. Lately though, most of the news segments are not telling viewers the daily and total numbers and keep making comments about reopening and how curve has flattened as if the crisis is easing.

[crickets]

7. +1 --especially one channel in particular: FOX News lies, FOX news kills. nt