What's up with the recent surge in reported COVID-19 deaths?
Are people dying more rapidly? No.
Is the data fraudulent? Unknown, but I'm assuming not.
When it comes to giving people information, the Corporate Press, the Corporate Universities and their cronies in the government like to play the game Michael @Malice calls "being factual, but not truthful."
The source of the recent surge in COVID-19 reported deaths: the CDC is reclassifying deaths from April and May. (see the last column, Jul 11).
From @kylamb8 and @tlowdon on Twitter, who performed the Augean task of digging through the data to find these numbers:
[This is] “a multi-dimensional date of death chart which will show deaths by week occurred, publicly reported deaths by week and weeks when CDC updated the deaths.
Top row: Deaths reported publicly by week
West to East: Provisional death counts by CDC when death occurred, columns representing the week when CDC added them.
Color striping indicates a way to track trends based reporting week. First red = 1st week of data, Orange = 2nd, etc.”
Don’t worry!
His “very smart people” are totally right about things this time when it comes to trade.
There is zero - I repeat, zero - moral difference between the people who pushed for "experimenting" with lockdowns because "we have to do something!" and the people who push for "experimenting" with trade wars because "we have to do something!"
Musk is out.
Musk put himself in a corner where he can't rip into Trump and he has to play nice probably at least through the midterms, but just look at the guy's face and watch him refuse to give a straight answer here. He put a lot on the line with endorsing Trump and starting DOGE, and Trump absolutely stabbed him in the back. Trump's supporters will blame congress, but Trump has very openly and loudly endorsed all of the DOGE-defying moves that congress has made, and has viciously attacked the one congressman (Thomas Massie) who has stood against it.
The reason is simple: Trump cares about trophies. Cutting the budget is not a trophy. DOGE trying to take a chainsaw to government was a trophy, but as soon as DOGE became more of Musk's than Trump's trophy, Trump stopped caring about it because congress offered him a Big, Beautiful Bill as a trophy instead. Just like the FBI offered the opportunity to build a Big, Beautiful new headquarters building for them (Trump loves buildings!). ...
As comedy slowly slides into unfunny wokeness hell, the last comedian standing (assuming he doesn't drop dead first, I mean just look at the guy; he's a trainwreck) will be Doug Stanhope. He closed out his recent special "The Dying of the Last Breed" with this bit on how important it is that we be able to make fun of anything. Because making fun.
Language warning, duh.
Preliminary Q2 numbers for Argentina are in. This is still subject to adjustment but so far their preliminaries have been pretty accurate under the Milei administration.
Slashing spending works. Trump and Bessent are very optimistically projecting economic growth of 3% doing the opposite of what Milei is doing to deliver 7.6% - and climbing!
