Total US deaths during March down 15% compared to last 4 years average

[DoctorP]

This soft ass generation really closed the economy over a bad flu season

ok boomer

[jstern]

I expected that. I also expect unwanted pregnancies to be down.

[bladefd]

So there were 34,000 less death this month than the last 4 years average.

On average per month in the US:
- 3,200 car deaths
- 1,300 murders
- 290 accidental drownings
- 4,500 flu deaths

If we pretend that none of those deaths have occurred since the lockdown, that still only accounts for a little over 9,000 deaths. There are still 25,000 deaths unaccounted for.

Then we have to add covid deaths in March which were 4,500. For such a devastating virus, you'd think it could fill the gap.

-Work based deaths
-Stress-based heart-attacks/deaths
-Dying under elective surgery (elective surgeries have been paused for now)
-Wild animal killing humans
-arson-related deaths
-other random ways to die
-on and on adds up fast when everyone is home and indoors

[~primetime~]

Yeah it's almost every type of accident imaginable

Really to sum it up, people aren't outside dying right now.

[~primetime~]

https://www.chicagotribune.com/coron...ui4-story.html

The drop-off has become a topic of discussion among cardiologists across the nation and world. A Connecticut doctor wrote an article for The New York Times describing a similar situation at his hospital. Nearly 68% of cardiologists who responded to an informal Twitter poll posted this month by Angioplasty.org, an online community of cardiologists, said they have been seeing at least 40% fewer cases.

Huge drop off in heat attacks... cardiologists have several theories why. One of them is that being home is less stressful, another is that people are scared to go to ER so maybe they are just dead at home unfound right now.

[Cleverness]

Agreed, I would bet the farm that the data shows influenza deaths being way down compared to the average for march... not only because people are spreading it less, but also because a ton of influenza deaths are undoubtedly being re-classified as covid deaths.

experts predicted millions of deaths in the US. even 1.1 million with extreme measures taken. yet now it's only 60,000 predicted, even with inflated numbers

op more accurate than the experts!

[GimmeThat]

and democracy, still a bad idea.

[coin24]

experts predicted millions of deaths in the US. even 1.1 million with extreme measures taken. yet now it's only 60,000 predicted, even with inflated numbers

op more accurate than the experts!

But they told us its 10 TIMES DEADLIER THAN THE FLU

[BarberSchool]

Everybody was inside the whole month, our murder rate here in GO went way down.

Still a funny stat to put the big picture in perspective.
Thanks Nanners, don’t let these haters ever make you do anything but laugh at em.

[ItsMillerTime]

You must be mentality disabled if you can't connect the whole world staying at home = lower deaths.

This forum is a breeding ground for mental retardation.

[Manny98]

So there were 34,000 less death this month than the last 4 years average.

On average per month in the US:
- 3,200 car deaths
- 1,300 murders
- 290 accidental drownings
- 4,500 flu deaths

If we pretend that none of those deaths have occurred since the lockdown, that still only accounts for a little over 9,000 deaths. There are still 25,000 deaths unaccounted for.

Then we have to add covid deaths in March which were 4,500. For such a devastating virus, you'd think it could fill the gap.

More proof that they're MASSIVELY inflating the death numbers

[MaxFly]

So there were 34,000 less death this month than the last 4 years average.

On average per month in the US:
- 3,200 car deaths
- 1,300 murders
- 290 accidental drownings
- 4,500 flu deaths

If we pretend that none of those deaths have occurred since the lockdown, that still only accounts for a little over 9,000 deaths. There are still 25,000 deaths unaccounted for.

Then we have to add covid deaths in March which were 4,500. For such a devastating virus, you'd think it could fill the gap.

Over the last month, we've had close to 24,500 deaths attributed to this pandemic. That's in spite of the massive efforts to contain it by shutting down schools, universities, sports leagues, churches, non-essential businesses, etc... and the implementation of a number of policies aimed at further stymying it's spread among the population that can't say home. We've hit the peak death rate earlier and at a lower rate because of the closures... not in spite of them.

Had we collectively responded to the virus in the way we respond to the seasonal flu or the common cold, not only would we have had all of the typical deaths we generally see during this time of year, but significantly more deaths from COVID-19 than we are currently seeing on top of that.

[NugzFan]

So there were 34,000 less death this month than the last 4 years average.

On average per month in the US:
- 3,200 car deaths
- 1,300 murders
- 290 accidental drownings
- 4,500 flu deaths

If we pretend that none of those deaths have occurred since the lockdown, that still only accounts for a little over 9,000 deaths. There are still 25,000 deaths unaccounted for.

Then we have to add covid deaths in March which were 4,500. For such a devastating virus, you'd think it could fill the gap.

so therefore we conclude that corona is saving lives?

[DoctorP]

so therefore we conclude that corona is saving lives?

yes