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simple fact that splains a

artappraiser — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 02:54:46 +0000

In reply to Gun violence surges in major American cities in the midst of a pandemic and a policing crisis

simple fact that splains a lot

Crime is down across America during this pandemic, with two exceptions: shootings and homicides. https://t.co/k1jToUhvj0
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) July 9, 2020

DeSantis tries to play all

artappraiser — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 19:33:05 +0000

In reply to Yeah Florida's lying stats is

DeSantis tries to play all sides, that's the problem, he's just a classic lying pandering politician:

FL @GovRonDeSantis urges people to avoid crowds

But he also wants to have the RNC convention in Jacksonville to nominate Trump in August

Will he lift restrictions that right now would cut convention attendance in half (to 7,500) in the Jacksonville arena?

DeSantis wouldn’t say pic.twitter.com/3SVsgXoL1Y
— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) July 7, 2020

It hits me right now looking

artappraiser — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 18:23:54 +0000

In reply to Yeah Florida's lying stats is

It hits me right now looking at this again on orphans in NYC, all the stats are a "lie" in one way or another, it's all in your priorities what you decide to count. What most people are measuring right now are the stats that epidemiologists use to control epidemics, but those are not measuring everything about the pandemic that is affecting society. They are just the numbers that epidemiologists have learned help them best. It's the "lying statistics" thing.

Yeah Florida's lying stats is

artappraiser — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 18:16:40 +0000

In reply to Florida shows 1/4 death rate

Yeah Florida's lying stats is a big problem as it has a propaganda effect across the country and with younger people and De Santis knows it and that's why it's being done.

From what I read older people in FL know wassup and are just stuck in isolation.

There's all kinds of ways FL accomplishes the lying. Old people get it and the cause of death can easily be written down as something else.

Here's what I see: If the state actually were to advertise that they are not into helping old people live longer, the ranks of retirees would not be replenished with new ones who spend retirement dollars and keep FL economy going. So one has to lie about the dying.

All the local governments are not with his program, though. The Miami mayor for example, knows how many people are dying and/or surviviing with handicaps, what is happening in the hospitals, cares.

Florida shows 1/4 death rate

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 17:15:00 +0000

In reply to Infections up 80% since

Florida shows 1/4 death rate of AZ or other states with booming infections - how can that be? Youd think science, lessons learned and facilities And strain if virus would be roughly the same, with Florida worse off because of double the new infections. But no - fewer dead somehow. More kids in FL? Saltwater?

PS - Montana blowing up - 50 new infections a day, today 78. One of Anon's "herd immunity" states will hit 1500 infections in about 3-5 days.

Kemp calls in the national

rmrd0000 — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 15:01:15 +0000

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Kemp calls in the national guard for a local police issue. If the guard goes into Atlanta, it will be Stop and Frisk on steroids. Everyone becomes a target or will feel the state is acting against them.

Recent data on homicides show

rmrd0000 — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 13:13:21 +0000

In reply to Gun violence surges in major American cities in the midst of a pandemic and a policing crisis

Recent data on homicides show a mixed bag. 18 of 30 cities noted decreased violent crime during the pandemic.

Homicide numbers were mixed — deaths increased in nine cities, decreased in nine cities, and 12 reported no change. Slayings in Los Angeles dropped from 31 during that period in 2019 to 16 in 2020, but homicides in Nashville during that period rose from four to 14. Homicides in Baltimore rose from 20 in those weeks last year to 23 this year. In Washington, they went down, from 11 to 10. Overall, the total number of homicides in the 30 jurisdictions dropped from 224 to 216, which is a 3.5 percent decline.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2020/05/19/amid-pandemic-crime-dropped-many-us-cities-not-all/

Infections up 80% since

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 12:46:00 +0000

In reply to Meanwhile, 7,000 kids in

Infections up 80% since Memorial Day, at times 50,000 new cases a day - but only 33% increase in fatalities. Could someone be, ahem, burying bad news - deliberately classifying Covid deaths as something else? While it's likely we've got lessons learned in treating Covid, with rapidly overrun facilities it's more likely patients will die. But if say pneumoniae Is a plausible excuse... Or old age? "Natural" causes?

Or Is that cases Are getting younger or strain getting weaker?

https://covidtracking.com/blog/why-changing-covid-19-demographics-in-the...

Meanwhile, 7,000 kids in

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 04:06:42 +0000

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Meanwhile, 7,000 kids in Florida have coronavirus https://t.co/PUxdhJdW3Y
— KD (@Fly_Sistah) July 6, 2020

Monday fatal shooting near

artappraiser — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 03:57:39 +0000

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Monday fatal shooting near Anacostia Metro station follows days of violence in D.C.

By Peter Hermann and Fenit Nirappil @ WashingtonPost.com. July 6, 2020 at 8:07 a.m. EDT

A man was fatally shot Monday morning near the Anacostia Metro station in Southeast Washington, continuing a surge of violence in the District that included the slayings of an 11-year-old boy and six others since July 1.

[....]

The recent spate of fatal shootings dominated the mayor’s briefing Monday on the coronavirus, as she expressed frustration over the violence and demands to bring it under control.

“People are hurting when they see a child senselessly killed in our city and they want answers,” Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) said, adding, “People want it just to stop.”

Referring to the killing of Davon, Bowser said, “I guarantee you when they find out what this is about, it’s going to be about nothing — it’s going to be about absolutely nothing.”

The mayor described Davon, a middle school student and star football player killed when gunfire erupted at the end of a violence-prevention cookout hosted by his mother — as a “bright, beautiful boy” who is dead because “somebody shot up his neighborhood.” She said his shooting is “not a game. It’s not a video. He’s not coming back. It’s real bullets. Real bullets kill children.”

She said when police arrived, the dying boy was in his mother’s arms.[....]

During the mayor’s briefing, D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham provided some new details about some other recent killings [....]

More here on separate thread, including on the killing of Davon McNeal and Mayor Bowser's press conference