Except for flu which has a seasonal pattern not unlike Covid-19

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Mar 30, 2020
11:14:20am

Colorado All-American

Except for flu which has a seasonal pattern not unlike Covid-19

And before you reply with "it's not the same as the flu", I know that. But the pattern would be similar. Some of the others might also follow some seasonality. I have no data to back it up but I would imagine suicide is more common in winter, for example.

Anyway, it's a misleading visual because it greatly exaggerates the deaths from COVID-19 over other causes that affect more people.

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If we had daily death counts for smoking, drunk driving, etc...

Xenon

3/30/20 5:47am

Most people have the mindset that "it won't happen to me." So it is doubtful.

rtNelson

3/30/20 5:56am

If we had nightly death counts (in the summer) of swimming pool deaths

HighHorse

3/30/20 6:39am

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coolcats

3/30/20 6:48am

Some states broadcast the # of traffic deaths that year on e-road signs

ForzaPuma

3/30/20 6:48am

For me every time I see those it’s a very effective reminder to be careful

BYUfan92

3/30/20 7:18am

It reframes the driving mind and puts things into perspective.

Zooropa

3/30/20 11:39pm

Here you go

buffgato

3/30/20 7:09am

Dang. And in a few more days…

Jay Rick

3/30/20 7:57am

That's an interesting video... wish the flu was on there since that's that's

Ryan M

3/30/20 8:01am

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Buffalo

3/30/20 8:15am

This is very misleading

Colorado

3/30/20 10:42am

sorry, meant as response to the graph post

Colorado

3/30/20 10:42am

I think that's kind of a reach, but you're entitled to your opinion

buffgato

3/30/20 10:56am

You are right that the chart title says what it is but the average person will

Colorado

3/30/20 11:10am

RE: I think that's kind of a reach, but you're entitled to your opinion

3/30/20 2:08pm

I would be interested to see if COVID19 deaths are truly incremental to those

jholling

3/30/20 8:15am

I'm guessing that the others are the US daily averages

Styro

3/30/20 8:19am

It says that the others are average. Which seems fair. We have years of data

Jay Rick

3/30/20 9:44am

Except for flu which has a seasonal pattern not unlike Covid-19

Colorado

3/30/20 11:14am

It’s probably true that there’s no perfect apples to apples comparison to

Jay Rick

3/30/20 11:18am

Gotta think accidents are down with less driving but suicides probably are up.

tevye

3/30/20 8:58am

Flu and Accidents should be down. Except for in-home "accidents"

ochobeeguy

3/30/20 9:14am

That’s interesting

gurt

3/30/20 9:06am

This may be misleading to some who don’t realize what this is actually showing.

3/30/20 9:51am

Agree. The COVID # is not an average.

BluebloodOR

3/30/20 2:26pm

I think we can all agree that would be more misleading. Why would we divide

hardcorecoug

3/30/20 2:47pm

I think if one makes any comparison using top US causes of death

3/30/20 3:01pm

I'm all for apples to apples comparison, which is why it makes no sense to

hardcorecoug

3/30/20 3:24pm

Imagine the chart showing deaths per day on September 12, 2001

MarylandFan

3/31/20 3:54am

Wait, you know we expect the other deaths to go up because COVID uncontrolled

Zoobieman

3/30/20 12:09pm

the biggest unknown is which of the COVID deaths have already been counted

korihor

3/30/20 12:23pm

It's a good point. We had an obsession with Iraq war deaths when daily #s

Artist

3/30/20 7:19am

I remember so clearly that phenomenon. Irritates me to this day.

Robert Baratheon

3/30/20 9:01am

Probably

gurt

3/30/20 9:04am

How about 100 gun deaths every day?

CallingDingo

3/30/20 9:39am

Love this idea, seems like it could have a good effect.

Mitty

3/30/20 10:08am

You want more of what we are seeing now? No, thank you. People are irrational

Colorado

3/30/20 11:24am

I don’t know that an everyday thing is the same as a new threat.

StalwartBraveTrue

3/30/20 8:02pm

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