COVID Numbers … Conspiracy or Coincidence

| July 21, 2020

If you have been saving some Tin Foil for a good cause this might be your chance to fashion a hat.   Watch the video and try this yourself.  I must admit… it does seem strange.

 

Category: COVID-19

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MarineDad61

Oh no.
This Stolen Valor phony CANCER FRAUD,
sentenced 3 years ago today….
is apparently OUT EARLY,
“due to the coronavirus pandemic”.

Google JOYELL RILEY.
She’s a mouthful.
(Seinfeld – “Not that there’s anything wrong with that.”)

https://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/story/news/2020/04/09/riley-could-get-early-release-prison-help-reduce-pandemic/5121716002/

MarineDad61

3 years ago, with details.
[Riley gets 3 years for tampering with records;
she lied about military service, cancer]

https://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/story/news/2017/07/19/riley-gets-3-years-lying-military-service-breast-cancer-solicit-money/491477001

Jeff LPH 3, 63-66

I typed in my old FD unit 405 new cases and hit the enter button and a number of states were claiming 405 new covid cases. I hit another 3 digit number and the same thing happened. WTF is going on. Try it.

Frankie Cee

With 50 states, of various populations, and over 100 days into this mess, I would expect that nearly every 3 digit number would show up, from the reporting of this, or that, state, on this, or that, date.

LC

Exactly. This is a product of two things – one, how search engines work, and two, the simple statistical likelihood of there being a 3-digit number of cases given the 100+ days and 1000+ newspapers (let alone news channels/websites).

Now, had a given number shown up in 100+ sites all for the same day, that’s where you’d start getting into statistically questionable things. But it doesn’t. Pick a number, you’ll see different dates, in different places. That’s just the law of large numbers at play.

The Other Whitey

You’re not wrong, LC. However, I think distinctions should be made between “possible,” “plausible,” and “probable.”

LC

If we had the details on how many news sites are indexed by Google, and assumed an even distribution (which it won’t be, but still, it’s a start), we could calculate the probabilities. Even at just the newspapers (estimated at 1279 in 2018 per Statista), and 100 days (for a nice round number), that gives 127900 unique places. If only one tenth are giving COVID data headlines about cases, which seems really low, then that’s still 12,790 individual news items that Google indexes.

There’s 900 three-digit numbers available, so that’s an average of 14 sites, from our one-tenth-of-newspapers, with the same number. Which Google, being a good search engine, will try to find.

You can play with the numbers, but I’d say it’s all very probably you’ll find a three-digit number pop up in a coronavirus headline. I’d also bet if we did higher numbers we’d find fewer stories – far fewer places will have had 999 new cases, for example, than 30 new cases.

We’re obviously in agreement, I just thought additional context makes it definitely seem ‘probable’ (for small 3-digit numbers), ‘plausible’ for higher ones, with fewer matches, and possible is a given.

OldManchu

I ♥ Covid-19.

Andy11M

gave it a spin, def a WTF moment. even tried my full birth year and got multiple hits.

SFC D

I don’t trust anybody’s numbers on corona because no two organizations are keeping score the same way. That makes every estimate or count or COD suspect.

5th/77th FA

Entertainment is at a low ebb here at Firebase Magnolia. Too hot to play outside and just waiting for the local cafe to open to pick up some dinner and mail a box to the Grand Daughter. Think I’ll have the fried yard bird, tater salad, collard greens, and hoe cakes again today. The thighs are moist and juicy, the legs are perfectly formed….oh…and the fried chicken pieces look good too. Collard greens usually have a nice piece of fatback for seasonings and the hoe/johnny cakes are the lacey, thin, crispy type. But, again…I digress.

Since entertainment was/is at a low ebb, I tried a multitude of #s taken from the screen names of the various miscreanted d’weeds/weedettes, you know…769, 577, 1480, 26L, 11B, AW1, ExPH2 and so on. The ones with the letters, I used the corresponding number that the letter was to the sequence on the Qwerty. I laffed and laffed, cause each one did indeed bring up stories from around the world. The last one I did was one of the chill’ens birthday. Not only did it give COVID #s it gave this picture. I laffed and laffed some more.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=311+new+cases&qpvt=311+new+cases&form=IGRE&first=1&scenario=ImageBasicHover

timactual

fried yard bird, collards,….and, I assume, real cornbread and not corn cake.

Do they deliver?

David

Believe I read once that you only need 30 people in a room before the odds of at least two sharing the same birthdate rises above 50%.

LC

Yep, the ‘Birthday Problem’ (or paradox):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem

Statistics can be wild.

Skippy

What’s the big deal here
it’s based on number of searches
It looks about right. The number of
Searches using NEW CASES
is the trigger point the number
Added is redirected to the know
Value

Ex-PH2

Well, I tried it and this is what I got:

Afghanistan reports 346 new COVID-19 cases
Source: Xinhua| 2020-06-19 19:54:04|Editor: huaxia
KABUL, June 19 (Xinhua) — Afghanistan reported 346 new COVID-19 cases within the past 24 hours on Friday, bringing the total tally to 27,878 cases, the Ministry of Public Health confirmed.

“Within the past 24 hours, 893 suspected cases were tested, out of which 346 tested positive in 12 provinces of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces,” the ministry said in a statement.

Of course, that was in June, over a month ago, and it was in Afghanistan, so I don’t know if that counts for anything in this match-mismatch game.

26Limabeans

Any idiot can clear their browser cache and participate in
damn near anything on line. Pay walls? Hold my mouse.
Surveys? tell me what you want for results.

But yeah, it’s all a giant scam. Who doesn’t see that?

MAGA 2020

timactual

Bah!
Don’t fall for that fakery.

In these confused and chaotic times you must
Protect yourself!

There is only one true, original, AFDB!

https://zapatopi.net/afdb/

Accept no substitutes!

(Also reflects the hot summer sun, preventing delirium due to heatstroke)

Poetrooper

I think it would be a nice gesture for all of us to chip in and buy one of those for Lars…

OldManchu

Don’t forget a box of extra absorbent tampons.

timactual

Too late, I fear. The circuits have been fried. But, I have another gesture in mind.

Sabre22

After you hit enter Look at the date for that number. I hit 777 and the dates showed from May to July for a variety of states. Any three digit random number Will show up in Most states for any random date. Nothing to see here. Now the probable Positives being counted as positives has been going on for a while as well. Gateway pundit had an article about Texas doing it in May so no wonder there numbers ares rising. They also count retests as well. One elderly relative was tested positive for covid the Nursing home retested that individual 11 plus times and counted it as a new case each time. Notice it is only happening in red states.

Thunderstixx

What Chicom flu is in actuality is a huge money sop as politicians take money away from us to spend on protecting themselves and making themselves look like they actually know what they are doing so you’ll vote for them again…
Oh, and “Orange Man Bad”…..
I’ll just leave this here…
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/extreme-dysfunction-new-york-city-dropped-52m-on-a-coronavirus-hospital-that-served-fewer-than-80-patients

11B-Mailclerk

All these “new” cases are mostly “old” – folks tested as having antibodies from prior exposures or prior no-big-deal illness.

The deaths are dwindling fast. The death -rate- is now at or below “seasonal flu”, with a skew -way- towards Seniors.

The median age of death is -78-. Meaning -half- of all deaths are -over- that age.Absent the disastrous decisions in Deep Blue cities to push SARS2 patients into nursing homes, we have 1/3 less deaths.

So all this fuss was pointless, unless you are trying to wreck the USA.

Hm.

11B-Mailclerk

More utter hypocrisy from “cull the elders” Cuomo.

https://www.redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2020/07/22/andrew-cuomos-georgia-visit-didnt-receive-much-media-coverage-revealing-video-of-what-he-did-explains-why/

The dipshit went down to Georgia…

No mask at his big meeting. Hm.