it's too late to bring in Pre 2020 flu statistics in this post. Your original post left them out and used only the atypical 2020 flu figures. So it appears that you cherry-picked the statistics to make your point and put your thumb on the scale. Your point would have been good enough using pre 2020. You should have used them.
So now, going forward, we won't trust you when you start throwing statistics at us. Your arguments will become less believable. We'lll question whether you're cherry picking them again.
The fact is he cherry-picked the statistics to make Covid look worse.
My original statement which Tech I don't believe has refuted is that he was influenced to pick the fact that made covid look worse.
I said he cherry picked it because it made covid look worse. I don't believe he's denied that he was influenced by the fact that the 2020 flu numbers made covid look worse. If he does, then I'll apologize to him.
That wasn't my point. My point was that Tech cherry picked 2020 because the lower flu deaths made covid look worse then [than] if he picked a normal non-covid period which had fewer deaths too but not as few.
First, my "original post" was a
response to this ridiculous false assertion...
For those under 45, the fatality rate is comparable to the flu.
No matter how you try to slice the two pies for comparison, it's an absurd statement and false.
Secondly, I don't know who the "we" are for whom you presume to speak and I won't ask because I don't care. I also don't care what you believe regarding my motives and therefore am not looking for, nor desire, any apology.
I already supplied, multiple times, the logic and motivation for the initial choice of a
single data set which encompassed the
entirety of the nearly two years of COVID-19 fatality data which exists and to which I supplied a link. You can find those
here, and
here (in which I also included flu data for the worst season in a decade, and once again
here. Please note that I included
all of the data available for
both 2020 and 2021 and not just 2020 as you keep claiming.
It will come up again later.
Finally, though I don't care about your presumptions or assertions regarding my motives; I will, in a post to follow, address your assertions regarding "cherry-picking" data and your concept of what that means.