Cooking the Books on COVID-19 Deaths

Aftermath

Brian C.Joondeph, MD  . . . "Most peoples’ moods are already melancholic over the unending economic shutdown, along with social distancing, masks, and restrictions on movement and assembly not normally seen in free societies. Why don’t news networks show a tally of recovered patients rather than deaths?
"Aside from the morbid, “If it bleeds, it leads” mantra that guides much news reporting, the media wants to pin each death on the tail of President Trump. Twitter has a #TrumpDeathCount hashtag to blame every single death on the president, the more the merrier. This is ahead of the fall presidential campaign where Democrats will attempt to blame the entire Wuhan virus mess on Trump, from the economic devastation to the total number of deaths.
"If more deaths are better for the Democrat and media narrative, expect to see inflated death counts, erroneously blaming non-virus deaths on the virus. The left is practiced at this since every type of extreme weather, from rain to snow, heat to cold, hurricanes to tornadoes, is blamed on global warming or climate change, depending on which term fits the weather in question.

"As states and cities reopen, expect each new death to be trumpeted by the media, with panel discussion by “experts” discussing Trump’s recklessness and disregard for American lives." . . .

MSM reporting of US COVID 19 mortality rate: An exercise in ‘How to Lie with Statistics’ "A book published 66 years ago and still in print is an essential reference for understanding most of the data that you see about the pandemic afflicting the world today.  Written by Darrell Huff and illustrated by Irving Geis, How to Lie With Statistics is both sardonic and a serious lesson in the abuse of math for propaganda. Whether or not it was studied by our Trump-hating media anxious to make the US look bad, some of its lessons are being employed."  . . .
. . . "But the media keeps screaming about the hard numbers (conveniently no longer interested in “per capita” data) and I’ve yet to see anyone from the administration pushing back nor our elected officials making this point.

"This is not to minimize the number of those who have died from this virus that communist China thrust upon the world. But when speaking about how we have fared, how well Trump has addressed this pandemic, and how well our health care system took care of people, it’s important to be accurate and clear.

"The administration needs to be pushing this information out. Americans need to know the truth, not only about what Trump has done (against so many odds), but also about how miserably Cuomo and de Blasio failed."