Let’s take a look at Europe to get a respite from the version of seething lies we are bathed in in the US.
First let’s put up the chart which illustrates how many deaths of all causes there are per week in Europe1 over the course of the last number of years:
This is the first chart on the Euromomo European excess death aggregation page but converted to zero based by me. At least it is a linear (not log) chart but the other main way to lie with a chart to the casual reader is to not make a chart zero based by default. Note that the blue band of text across the middle is what the unsuspecting reader will assume as zero based on their default intuition. Go look and tell me I’m wrong.
But zero is actually at the bottom of the yellow zone I have added in which makes those seasonal peaks — even the C19 driven ones — look quite a bit less daunting. In fact, now neither of the first two peaks for 2016-17 and 2017-18 look so tiny now either. Where were the lock downs for those again? Bueller?
Now look at all those peaks and the sine wave they appear to pop out of! And notice that they are not only on a yearly cadence but they seem to span across New Year’s mostly — hence my awkward earlier references to 2016-17 and 2017-18. And that sine wave of “historically expected” deaths they are rooted in also obviously runs at a yearly frequency that peaks a little after New Year’s.
You can now work out for yourself why the CDC’s FluView interactive page uses a “year” (=seasonality) that runs from week 40 through week 39 of the following year. Because otherwise it could get kind of odd comparing each “year’s” flu season’s — before C19 most of those excess deaths peaks have historically been attributed to the flu and associated pneumonia — various numbers depending on whether the bulk of the deaths peak was before, after or surrounding New Year’s as you can see by the variability. C19 really highlighted it but if you go back enough years (that they are hiding but that’s the topic for another rant) you will see more of it also.
So I have helpfully overlaid the US CDC’s week 40 to week 39 seasonality on the chart which doesn’t appear by default on Euromomo.
Oh. And did you notice that the FluView page now defaults to “PIC” (Pneumonia, Influenza and Covid) instead of the alternate (and historical) selection for “PI” (Pneumonia and Influenza).
Yes, they are admitting in broad daylight that C19 is seasonal without it coming out of Fauxi’s mouth. Of course they know what’s really going on.
Both he and the rest of the fedgov/bigtech/bigpharma/bigX complex are laughing up their sleeves at what they have been able to get away with at your expense and terror.
Parting question even taking the C19 numbers at face value: Even if the “flu” has really been mostly displaced in the recent seasons by C19 viral competition, is it really fair not to also present a version of the C19 numbers for Europe that is reduced by some number of flu deaths that would otherwise be expected? It turns out that the historical yearly toll of the flu in Europe is actually meaningfully proportionately higher than in the US2 as shown by the aforementioned non-triviality of the 2016 and 2017 seasonal peaks … and now you’re thinking in “PIC” seasons!
Course complete.
UPDATE 210611: In case you still have trouble understanding my explanation of “zero based”, consider the following:
The red outlined areas are “excess” deaths and the blue outlined areas are “expected” deaths for each year/ season. Since this representation is “zero-based linear” the visual area proportions are completely valid relative comparisons.
And for historical perspective, the blue areas have recently been in the range of somewhat under to somewhat over 1% of the population with a general trendline in the last century down from somewhere around 2% of the population each year in the developed world.
So a visualization of the actual full current population — not just the expected deaths — to get a feel for actual risk is around a HUNDRED TIMES THE SIZE of the blue areas and we’ve become propagandized into quaking terror of imminent death regarding the marginal increase in the red areas in the last few seasons due to C19.
Turn. Off. The. T. V.
UPDATE 210614: And what happens if we look at the relative changes in excess deaths compared to the entire population? In other words, we are being conditioned to argue about changes in the size of the red areas in this context:
That’s right, you need a bigger monitor.
It turns out Euromomo is not all of Europe but a good subset of it.
The US’s lesser proportions of flu deaths are not presented here but Europe is maybe 50-100% larger proportionately at least in the way they count PI if not in actuality.