By SmallerGovNow @ TheBurningPlatform.com
On April 10, 2020 Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced that there were 221 deaths in the State of Texas caused by (or related to) the Corona Virus. What was absent from this announcement, and what I find most troubling, were figures for the TOTAL number of deaths in Texas from all causes.
The latest data available on the TexasHealth and Human Services website shows that in 2015 there were 189,166 deaths from all causes in the State of Texas. Over the ten year period from 2006 to 2015 there was an average annual increase of 3,264 deaths in Texas (naturally occurring due to population increases over the same period). See source data below*.
Extrapolating to 2020 (based on this historical data) we should expect to see approximately 205,486 total deaths in the State of Texas. Using this figure and the number of days since the beginning of the year, there should be approximately 56,714 deaths as of April 10th when Governor Abbott made his announcement (205,486 x (101days/366 days) = 56,714).
Conclusion: The percentage of the estimated number of deaths due to COVID19 in the State of Texas is (221 CV Deaths / 56,714 Estimated Total Deaths) x 100% = 0.39%
While all deaths are tragic for those involved, it defies any logic or common sense that our State, or by extension our country, should be shut down. While the societal costs, loss freedoms, and the negative impacts to our economy have yet to be quantified, it is obvious to any thinking person that the “cure” is far worse than the disease.
Please note that the above analysis does not even mention the fact that there is NO consensus of medical opinion that the “social distancing” measures are warranted nor proper. One need only perform an internet search to access a plethora of videos from highly educated doctors and specialists disputing the recommendations from Doctors Fauci and Birx. In fact, many are of the opinion that the social distancing is making matters worse in that it will not permit the natural herd immunity to take place.
Please END THIS. Our liberty, freedoms, and economy are all at risk of vanishing forever.
– *Source: Texas Health & Human Services Website, 2015 data.
The above post was e-mailed to my blog by Chip (SmallerGovNow) and posted with his permission. I only added the header photo
This whole ordeal is NOT about the virus, it is a matter of control and diversion.
Thank you Doug. So glad to see this information get to a larger audience. You, admin, and the other contributors on TBP give me hope that with enough smart people and loud enough voices we can defeat the evil scourge that’s taken control of our country… Chip
Thanks Chip. BTW – I replied to your email and received a bounce-back saying it went to spam.
I will check it out. Thank you Doug. You’re an inspiration… Chip
Doug, my junk email (spam) is empty. Are you able to see my email address in this reply? I know that I am on your distribution list from your website because I get your alerts. Sometimes they are sent to my Spam file which I check often because I know (((they))) are shadow censoring us… Chip
Give this a listen before Youtube bans it. Humans are nothing but guinea pigs and cash cows to these filthy demons.
https://youtu.be/mbzncAXqUJo
Thanks.
thank you.
End it? Shoot, these boys are just getting started! It seems to me that the level of confused desperation that our globalist -psycho rulers feel is needed before they can completely break us is not yet high enough. Completely destroying 30% of our (admittedly phony) economy is not enough. Lying to us about Coronavirus® deaths that aren’t has not scared people enough. Mandating that people literally sit alone in their homes (cells, really) has not been quite miserable enough. They tried to make us riot over toilet paper “shortages”. and that did not work. Next up is going to managed shortages of food. Stories about sick-outs closing meatpackers, and vegetables/dairy turned over in the field for lack of an institutional market are the warning shots. In less than 2 weeks, groceries are going to be pretty hard to get. Look for something (maybe from the US Dept. of Transportation) to get truckers off the road as well.
Oddly enough, the hispanic illegals are still landscaping and building. I wonder if they will get their Trumpy checks? I guess we don’t want them to be sitting around in their homes (4 or 5 to a room), broke, and stewing about who is to blame. These boys came from nations with genuine revolutionary shit going on, we would not want them putting that knowledge to work here. And maybe the South of the Border illegal crowd just does not do social distancing. We shall see.
I think you are right about the food. In Greely, CO, JBM Packing Plant just shut doors, 50 infections, 2 deaths, 6000 people sent home.
That is a lot of meat offline.
People shouldn’t be eating that industrial ag crap anyway. They did people a favor.
Agree they shouldn’t be eating that ag crap for their health. But they never gave a shit anyway. Ya, it cost us all more in health care, but that is out the window now. Did you see the mile long vehicle lines in Commiefornia for food. Like they give a shit where their food comes from. Feed them Soylent Green. They need to feed them that ag shit, or they will starve. And starve they just might.
“In less than 2 weeks, groceries are going to be pretty hard to get.”
our local grocery store managers say the warehouses are normal at .75 capacity.
the shelves are filling back up, there’s even bleach and toilet paper again.
Oddly enough, the hispanic illegals are still landscaping and building. I wonder if they will get their Trumpy checks? – Brain Really
Lots of po’ folks are still working, it’s a matter of eating or not eating. Meanwhile, you have a paid vacation from your work or from unemployment benefits. News reports are that Hispanics and blacks are getting hit hard. Maybe we can blame it, as Uncola would say, on underlying issues, like being non-white, who knows?
You have no worries, you will get your Trumpy check. I doubt I will because I end up paying every year. The Trumpy check is an advance tax refund, it ain’t free money for everybody. I doubt illegals will all get a check since they will be deposited directly to bank accounts which, if you recall, you need to verify your identity, citizenship, mother’s maiden name and your sexual orientation.
Mary Anoints Jesus
…4But one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was going to betray Him, asked, 5“Why wasn’t this perfume sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?” 6Judas did not say this because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money bag, he used to take from what was put into it.…
I have been roofing nearly every day, on a large commercial job we have going, with trades full of Mexicans and hard knock whities, there seems to be just about 0 concern for the Corona.
Just getting done, and getting paid.
Brian, seems you don’t know much about current happenings in Texas. Abbot announced that he was going to lift quarantine soon.
I just spoke with my son in San Antonio Texas. He says the hospitals are empty there. The hospitals are bleeding cash and they are sending nurses, doctors, and staff home with 50% of their normal hours… Chip
There are infected folk here but not nearly an epidemic. Texas hasn’t been as draconian in shutting people away like in other states. San Antonio and Dallas and the other big cities have been seriously quarantining, then again, almost all big cities in Texas are liberal.
I live in the Southernmost county in the state and our County Judge has had us shut down for four weeks… Chip
It’s a shit test and we’re failing.
Our ancestors would be disgusted with us.
And it’s good for the environment too!
‘Heroes’ are not known for their super intelligence.
I think the question should be, is the number of total deaths greater than the projected averages. According to the nationwide figures the answer is no. If the covid-19 virus did indeed kill anyone at all it must have killed someone who was going to die from other causes like auto accidents or cancer.
Bingo! I’ve been watching that too. Have seen several videos that claim the average number of deaths have remained constant. Even in places like NY… Chip
Chip
The latest fear porn on ZH says the coviscam virus is now the worlds dealiest on record. How could it fail when all deaths are now scamdemic deaths?
Yeah, what’s happened to ZH? Sold out? IDK. Comment section has gone to shit. Used to be the best and brightest on the planet. Now? Not so sure. On occasion some of the older smart guys will come on (HH et al). But miss a lot of the others… Chip
Chip.
As we were chatting Dabhoo77 on you-tube reported at minute 1:10 that all other deaths like Heart attacks etc. have gone to zero to make the numbers match. My you-tube links never work so I don’t bother anymore but just go to you tube and type Dabhoo77.
Smaller
I agree with you on ZH, but I’ve never thought much of its comments section, even during ZH’s heyday. Some of the most moronic and asinine things I’ve ever read have been ZH comments. The average quality of comments on both TBP and SLL is far higher and always has been.
While government will always tend toward grabbing power, I don’t see this pandemic – such as it is – as a hoax or a conspiracy. It’s mostly a question of what the eventual incidence fatality rate will prove to be – and how best to balance reasonable public health measures with maintaining a functioning economy. It’s largely an arithmetic issue. I just listened to an interview with Michael Osterholm of CIDRAP (the Center for Infectious Disease Research And Policy). I find him very balanced, reasonable and listenable https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/podcasts-webinars/episode-3
Anybody who thinks this will be over in a month is probably wrong – although we all await the serological tests that may clue us in on the elusive “denominator”.
The is one of the medical “experts” being parading out constantly by CNN. He’s been on there many times. For that reason alone, I wouldn’t trust anything he says.
Considering the fact that as COVID19 hit the headlines and just days before the joint congress and senate committee meet regarding the stock markets you tell me WTF !
As these BIG CLUB members emerged from their closed door scum bag meeting “THEY” announced your stock investments , 401k , IRA’s etc…
We’re safe and secure then “THEY” turned around grabbed the cell phone and dumped everything they had in stocks !
Cashing out after the longest run up in history hours before it tanked for the great unwashed to absorb all the loses . Now we shelter in place hoping not to run out of toilet paper . Not to mention job loss , income loss and the gains from any investments down the memory hole !
Oh it’s happening sweetheart , our nations ruling elites just raped every working Americans asshole and now they are pissing on us and tell us it’s raining
Eat Shit and jump you fuckers !
Anon says:
The reason why the food bank supply chain is being held together with chewing gum and duct tape…, why gas is cheap enough so people can idle their newer SUV’s in the longer food bank lines…, and why HBO is offered free until further notice…
But by the time Billy Gates has the vaccine ready and the body bags on backorder from Amazon.com are finally delivered to FEMA, it will be too late.
Convenience is a bitch
I prefer this method:
I sold everything before it tanked. Were you not watching the Chris Martenson videos? TBP shit-throwing monkeys have no excuse for getting blind-sided.
Those apocalyptic, this is it videos? I have noticed a tapering of those…
Otto
This is it. There just isn’t any reason to bother saying it anymore. If they haven’t caught on by now what’s the point in telling them. We will most likely get a short reprieve on traveling and leaving the house but it won’t last long.
I agree, the financial panic is budding, opening a new tool to leverage, food seems likely as well, and I am sure if necessary, additional “blooms” of Corona.
Take care.
The CDC has been manipulating flu numbers for the purpose of selling vaccines for at least a decade now and low life money grubbing MDs are in on the scam and they’re doing it with Covid 19 too.
Sorry for the cut and paste , but the 2014 article partially copied below – Don’t Believe Everything You Read About Flu Death- is a must read. Americans are being lied to , and the Federal and state government are participating in the fraud. Government turns everything from education to medicine to into a g’ damn money racket… smh
Robert Kennedy Jr.: CDC Is A Privately Owned Vaccine Company
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claims the CDC owns patents on at least 57 different vaccines, and profits $4.1 billion per year in vaccination sales.
According to RFK Jr., the CDC is not an independent government agency but is actually a subsidiary of Big Pharma.
Via Huffington Post 2014 .
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/lawrence-solomon/death-by-influenza_b_4661442.html
“THE BLOG
01/24/2014 05:40 EST | Updated 03/26/2014 05:59 EDT
Don’t Believe Everything You Read About Flu Deaths
The CDC’s decision to play up flu deaths dates back a decade, when it realized the public wasn’t following its advice on the flu vaccine. During the 2003 flu season “the manufacturers were telling us that they weren’t receiving a lot of orders for vaccine,”Dr. Glen Nowak, associate director for communications at CDC’s National Immunization Program, told National Public Radio.
“According to the National Vital Statistics System in the U.S., for example, annual flu deaths in 2010 amounted to just 500 per year — fewer than deaths from ulcers (2,977), hernias (1,832) and pregnancy and childbirth (825), and a far cry from the big killers such as heart disease (597,689) and cancers (574,743). The story is similar in Canada, where unlikely killers likewise dwarf Statistics Canada’s count of flu deaths.
Even that 500 figure for the U.S. could be too high, according to analyses in authoritative journals such as the American Journal of Public Health and the British Medical Journal. Only about 15-20 per cent of people who come down with flu-like symptoms have the influenza virus — the other 80-85 per cent actually caught rhinovirus or other germs that are indistinguishable from the true flu without laboratory tests, which are rarely done. In 2001, a year in which death certificates listed 257 Americans as having died of flu, only 18 were positively identified as true flus. The other 239 were simply assumed to be flus and most likely had few true flus among them.
U.S. data on influenza deaths are a mess,” states a 2005 article in the British Medical Journal entitled “Are U.S. flu death figures more PR than science?” This article takes issue with the 36,000 flu-death figure commonly claimed, and with describing “influenza/pneumonia” as the seventh leading cause of death in the U.S.
“But why are flu and pneumonia bundled together?” the article asks. “Is the relationship so strong or unique to warrant characterizing them as a single cause of death?”
The article’s answer is no. Most pneumonia deaths are unrelated to influenza. For example, “stomach acid suppressing drugs are associated with a higher risk of community-acquired pneumonia, but such drugs and pneumonia are not compiled as a single statistic,” explained Dr. David Rosenthal, director of Harvard University Health Services. “People don’t necessarily die, per se, of the [flu] virus — the viraemia. What they die of is a secondary pneumonia.”
Pneumonia, according to the American Lung Association, has more than 30 different causes, influenza being but one of them. The CDC itself acknowledges the slim relationship, saying “only a small proportion of deaths… only 8.5 per cent of all pneumonia and influenza deaths [are] influenza-related.””
“Government turns everything from education to medicine to into a g’ damn money racket… smh”
W-w-why is that?
G.R.E.E.D.
From the video…(excellent)
James Bullard, St Louis Fed,”people would wear a badge..”
Whoa bud, what the fuck would make you think even commenting was appropriate, let alone vomiting out that gem?
Thank you Chip and Doug for posting that. With the exception of Louisiana (173 deaths per million), which foolishly held Mardi Gras this year, the deaths per million across the Sun Belt are quite low compared to New York’s (440) and New Jersey’s (246). It’s not wholly a function of less urbanization either, as Texas and California both have very low rates (9 and 16 deaths per million respectively) and large cities. I think in part it’s a function of warm weather and access to sunlight, although there are several northern states with low rates as well. Remember when people scolded Trump for suggesting spring’s warm weather would lessen the severity of the coronavirus outbreak, as it does for virtually every flu virus every year? Look for US daily case numbers to peak shortly if they haven’t already, with daily death numbers to follow several days thereafter. And remember to take the case and death numbers with a shaker of salt. The test yields lots of false positives and it appears that medical personnel are under intense pressure to report any death with any plausible link to coronavirus symptoms as a coronavirus death, with no verification that the deceased was even infected other than symptoms that are common to many diseases.
Politicians do not want to be the one’s responsible for the over reaction. As I mentioned above, in case you didn’t see it, my son in San Antonio says that the hospitals there are empty and they are sending nurses, doctors, and staff home with half of their normal hours. The hospitals are bleeding cash due to inactivity. Much like every other business they are not immune to the lockdown… Chip
What talk is there in the (((media))) about the most incredible disruption and power grab in US and global history. You know, the one being pulled off by the FED?
The FED is now probably the strongest power in global history and the world is essentially silent on the topic. Everyone knows the quote about banks being more dangerous than standing armys’. Yet, we’re transfixed on a ghostly disease while the FED is buying the world with worthless currency.
And we are about to get both banks worthless currency and standing armies. A two-fer. Yay, America!! As Stucky would say, USA! USA! USA!
In this case the “cure” is worse than the disease especially since a large part of the “cure” is totally ineffective – forcing companies to close and forcing people to stay at home except for essentials but then not properly protecting the people while they are out getting the essentials by not doing sufficient sanitizing and not requiring everybody to wear masks is absurd. BUT not taking the exponential growth of this disease into account is also absurd. Just over a month ago there were 6 confirmed cases in the US and now the confirmed cases have topped half a million, so comparing the current number of cases to anything that is not also growing exponentially is completely meaningless. Let the people isolate who want or need to isolate, implement new societal norms including social distancing, cleanliness, and wearing masks everywhere in public and open everything up and let the rest of us get back to our lives.
Stop making sense.
Implement new societal norms? I don’t think societal norms are implemented.
What was the test situation like a month ago? We have like 270 deaths here in CO, fucking 80 of those were in Nursing homes. We were number 3 in the USA a month ago.
The OP is a flop, badly, there are no numbers, there will be no numbers.
Even with serious inflation of every fuckin flavor.
You think they can “let” us get back with our lives?
It’s war.
Maybe this was a warning, stand down, or…
Annie
Neither confirmed cases nor deaths in the US are growing exponentially and have not been since the early days of the outbreak. In fact, the greatest daily increase in confirmed cases was on April 4, at 34,196. The largest daily death number was April 10 at 2035, and that number is certainly not growing exponentially. Exponential growth requires at the least a greater daily increase than the day before, and that is not happening (for true exponential growth, not only will daily increases be greater each day, but they will be so by a percentage difference that stays constant or increases). If you’d like further information about exponential functions, please see my article “Basic Math,” posted both on Straight Line Logic and The Burning Platform. The fact that neither daily confirmed cases nor daily deaths are growing exponentially is why the scary death estimates have been revised so dramatically downward, from millions to the latest: 60,000. We might not even make it to that number. As a point of reference, the CDC estimates that “normal” flus this flu season caused from 24,000 to 62,000 deaths, which is fairly typical.
All coronavirus numbers from worldometers.info