Sunday, April 11, 2021

Stimulus And Covid-19 Attitudes Reflect Poor Math Skills

For all the noise made over Covid-19, many people might be surprised to find out that it was not the leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2020. It came in third, behind heart disease and cancer, according to a new CDC study. COVID-19 was listed as the underlying cause of 345,323 deaths during 2020 and was the third leading underlying cause of death, after heart disease (690,882 deaths) and cancer (598,932) That is reality in a nutshell.

This graphic describes provisional U.S. 2020 deaths and leading causes of death.
So Much For The Idea We Are All Going to Die From Covid

This data kinda puts into focus how warped we have become by the fear-mongering fostered upon us. it is difficult to argue with this data. It was lifted from the Provisional Mortality Data — United States, 2020 | MMWR report. 

Total deaths in America in 2020, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) came in at 2,913,144. Considering that there were 2,845,793 deaths in 2019 and 2,831,836 deaths in 2018, this is not surprising. If you ballpark America's population at 333 million, 1% of that number is 3.3 million people. While many people find it distressing, the fact is people die. Also, this curse tends to descend upon people that are older. One of my favorite lines comes from a great old gal I knew, when she was 98, she informed me she no longer bought green bananas. 

Leave it up to the media to spinning the increase in deaths as proof Covid has devastated our country, such an article appeared on ABC near the end of December. The article hyping the number was titled: "US deaths in 2020 top 3 million, by far most ever counted." (https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/us-deaths-2020-top-million-counted-74855303) It went on to say, 2020 will go down as the deadliest year in U.S. history, with deaths topping 3 million for the first time.

Stimulus and Covid-19 attitudes reflect declining math skills. The fact the light simply doesn't come on in the minds of the majority of people as to how far off course we have traveled is astounding. Much of this could be attributed to the dumbing down of America. Some people consider this a planned effort by the government and those in charge of our general well-being to make the masses more malleable.

The idea of "dumbing down," is the deliberate oversimplification of intellectual content in education, literature, and cinema, news, video games, and culture. Originated in 1933, the term "dumbing down" was movie-business slang, used by screenplay writers, the idea was to revising things to appeal to those of little education or intelligence". Dumbing-down varies according to the subject matter, but almost always results in the diminishment of critical thought. 

Stupid Much? Yes, It's Kinda Like This!

It could be argued that modern culture has gone off the rails. This is reflected in programs developed to entertain us. One example is the Beavis and Butt-Head Animated MTV series. It is about two teenage heavy-metal music fans who occasionally do idiotic things because they're bored. The problem we face is that it is not just children that while away the hours watching this garbage but bone idle adults also waste a great deal of their time engaged in the same activity rather than looking for more productive things to do. 

Circling back to the crux of this article, we should be viewing Covid-19 and the size of the stimulus packages through mathematics rather than a prism of emotion. When it comes to the pandemic the general dumbing down of America the nation's poor math skills comes front and center. Again, setting America's population at 333 million, 1% of that number is 3.3 million people. It should not come as shocking news that roughly one percent of the population dies each year from old age or disease. As for the cost of this poorly handled pandemic that has led to the devastation of America and caused the national debt to go explode, that is a whole other story. 

Using the same population figure as above, every billion dollars spent by the government represents an outlay of $3 for every man, woman, and child in America. This means each trillion dollars spent is equal to $3,000. To keep things simple let's just go with the six trillion figure, $3,000 times six show a huge $18,000 of new "stimulus" or debt has been created for each of us over the last year. Round this number up by two dollars and multiply it to represent a family of three and we are looking at a mind-blowing $54,000 per family. This is why incomes have risen to an all-time high while tens of millions of workers have sat at home during the lock-downs.  

While many of us argue that COVID-19 should not be called a major public health threat anymore and see it as having reached endemic status (like the seasonal flu), the fearmongers with an agenda continue to warn us of future death and chaos. The big threat now being a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 that is, allegedly, now “causing huge problems” in Europe. In a mid-March 2021 while appearing on MSNBC News, National Institutes of Health director Dr. Francis Collins expressed dismay at something that was beginning to happen across America by pointing at Florida, he said: 

“Oh my God, Florida, stay out of the bars with your masks off! What are you doing? This is exactly      the wrong thing to be doing unless you want to end up where Europe is.”


During the last year, we have lived in a world we could hardly have imagined when all this started. As expected, new variants of this virus are emerging and there will be many new strains in the future. In the same way, the seasonal flu changes and evolves from year to year history indicates as viruses mutate within a population over time, they tend to become more benign. Still, we could ask, why we let things unfold as they have or how this happened? Sadly, most of us know the answer.

While many so-called experts say follow the science, I say, follow the math. Using math as a tool we can shed some logic upon the rather chaotic situation we find ourselves in. It appears much of the world has been blinded by those seeking to implement a "Great Reset" of the global economy, our social structure, and our culture. Entering into this is the squelching of free speech and censorship. All this has gone full tilt and we are under a full-court press to halt any comeback on the part of rational human beings to exert real influence on our future.  


(Republishing of this article welcomed with reference to Bruce Wilds/AdvancingTime Blog)

32 comments:

  1. The NY Times put out an article last year stating that Covid 19 was not the big killer. The biggest killer was Tuberculous which kills 1.66 million and infects at least 10 million worldwide.

    The reason why the narrative doesn't fit the Covid 19 crime is because this is all part of the Great Reset by the Davos Group spearheaded by none other than Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum. He is behind the "Build Back Better" manifesto which you see the likes of Joe Biden, Boris Johnson, Macron, Merkel and others espousing.

    It's now common knowledge that the Davos Group were "wargaming" a pandemic crisis months prior to Covid 19 making its appearance last year. Anthony Fauci was seen traveling to Wuhan months prior to the release of the virus.

    Florida Governor Rick Desantis has accused Anthony Fauci of making millions from the vaccines he's been pushing for. But the key is Klaus Schwab because he has said on a number of occasions that the Covid pandemic (some are calling it a "Scam-demic or Plan-demic") should be taken advantage of so as to move the world towards what he calls the "4th Industrial Revolution" aka the Green Movement which means elimination fossil fuels.

    Now if anyone thinks this is all BS or conspiracy theory then go to the World Economic Forum's website. There they have laid out their plans for the world.

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    1. And they published the scenario back in 2010. In their story, the 'v' broke out in Brazil.

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  2. Speaking of math skills...
    "Total deaths in America in 2020, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) came in at 2,913,144."
    The MMWR report you linked for the Covid-19 statistics clearly lists 3,358,814 as the approximate number of deaths in the US in 2020.
    This doesn't jibe very well with the 2.9M number you quoted from the CDC.

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    1. Thanks for the comment.
      (Please note:. This report has been corrected.)
      I looked at an earlier report, it seems the numbers are now "all-over" the board.

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    2. Then you should retract this hogwash.

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    3. If I felt we were really looking at numbers that had been "corrected" I might consider making some changes, however, rather than corrected I feel the numbers have merely been "changed." In my opinion, even the higher number would not justify the huge stimulus or the government's encroachment on our rights.

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  3. Historians of the Second American Revolution, and possibly of the Second Civil War, will find the evidence that the Chicom virus was created in the Wuhan biological warfare laboratory in 2009, and paid for by the Obama regime. The goal was to combine HIV and influenza viruses to create AIDS that could be spread in the West by face-to-face contact rather than the more exotic means of contagion otherwise necessary. This did not work and the virus sat on the shelf until Fraudci brainstormed a pandemic scenario in 2017 that would bring down the President who had just defeated Fraudci's lover. The release of the virus and dispatch of millions of Chinese disease vectors was agreed to at a September 2019 meeting in New York attended by Soros (who bankrolled it), Gates and Schwab (who were getting the Global Reset ready), Schumer and Pelosi (desperate at that point to avoid a landslide defeat in the 2020 presidential election) and representatives of Xi Jinping (who was and is interested in ruling the world). Biden was plucked from impending defeat and obscurity to be the puppet president of a ruined America run from Davos and Beijing, and the rest as they say is history. This is beyond doubt the greatest crime against humanity in history. Down with the dictatorship! Biden (and plandemic schemers) delenda est!

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  4. According to your link, provisional deaths were 3.359million... not 2.913 as you stated.

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  5. I looked at the CDC link it references 3358814 total dead with 377883 from COVID you may want to check your math from the article

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    1. 2,913,144
      On 31 December 2020, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 2,913,144 total deaths in 2020, which was updated on 30 December. Therefore, the figure of 2,835,533 cited in the Facebook posts falls short by more than 77,000 deaths.
      The CDC reports more than 2.9 million deaths in the U.S ...
      healthfeedback.org/claimreview/the-cdc-reports-more-than-2-9-million-deaths-in-th…

      https://www.bing.com/search?form=MOZTSB&pc=MOZI&q=how+many+deaths+in+2020+cdc

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  6. The sad truth is that so many want The Reset. They think it is great. They have no concept of real freedom, they don't care. I am a public high school teacher slogging away with distance learning insanity, and most of my 17-year-old students - there interminably sequestered in their home office cubicles - believe it or not, do not want to reopen simply because they've been made scared to death that if they come back to the campus the Covid monster will nefariously slip into their nostrils and when they breathe back at home they will be responsible for killing their grandmother. That is what they've been told to believe, virtually every single of my students, pounded and pounded and pounded into them. The principles of The Reset are no different. It'd be nice if enough would look at those posted WEF plans and respond accordingly. But there simply aren't enough. I pray every day for this country.

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  7. So if covid has become the third leading cause of death, it's nothing to worry about? I don't know about you, but if something totally new becomes the third leading cause of death, I think it's perfectly normal and rational to worry about it.

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    1. When somebody dies from heart disease or cancer the cause of death tends to be rather clear, this is not necessarily the case when it comes to Covid-19. The fact that so many older and unhealthy people have been the victims means it may have contributed to the death and not the cause.

      Still, you have a valid point that people have a reason to be concerned. I have been cautious over the last years and beefed up my vitamin C intake and stayed away from people that were obviously sick.

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    2. Flu though, has miraculously disappeared.
      Worry about how that happened and then begin to question everything you believe.

      Throwing you an organic, rice-paper straw to keep you afloat.

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    3. Deaths FROM cv make up around 6% of "deaths reported". CDC is mixing deaths of ALL types of respiratory problems (and from doctor's complaints, they are even including many OTHER kinds of deaths from OTHER causes) in the figures. We don't even KNOW, for a fact, that this lab-created 'v' is actually SARS-CoVID-2. Jon Rappoport reports that even the CDC didn't have any stocks of the 'v' to provide test or vaccine manufacturers, because it didn't HAVE any: https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/10/26/the-missing-virus-answering-critics-objections/

      Not only that, but NOBODY has done any VALID isolation and characterization studies to demonstrate it exists out in the wild: https://www.bitchute.com/video/hb59zCBaFamC/

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  8. As in the 2020 election, when the numbers don't say what you want, just change them. The CDC boosted the death numbers for the last 6 weeks of 2020 to 3 times the rates for the rest of the year. Now Buy-dem can be a hero for getting much lower death rates in 2021.
    Like the election, it is politically biased rubbish.

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    1. I wonder what scared them from the original magic number '6 million', prognosed one year ago by Neill Ferguson of Imperial College London - funded by Bill Gates?

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  9. Extraordinary garbage and gross hypocrisy.

    This blog talks about dumbing down?
    My god.
    There is no finer example of dumbing down, than far-right blogs such as this, who distort, deceive and lie by omission.

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    1. Ouch! The fact is I'm more of a libertarian than one of those "far right-guys." If you take a look at many of my past articles you will find that. My criticism flows to those on both the left and the right.

      I'm a fan of freedom and personal responsibility. I support the legalization of marijuana and think we should protect the environment by conserving our natural resources, these stands are not always embraced by the far right.

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    2. Libertarian, or fat-right, what's the difference?

      So many times in the past, I've read blogs and websites from the far-right, in which they love to cloak themselves in the term of "libertarian," but the rest of the Rational world understands your dog-whistle politics and misanthropic social ideals.

      Your criticisms flow both ways?
      Where's your hard-and-fast criticism of the political ideologues on the far right?

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    3. Which of the three numbers do you have the most trouble with?" Or is your currency cheap, disingenuous outrage and nothing but?

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  10. Where is the author getting the 2020 death count? It's not final yet. See this link:
    https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/provisional-tables.htm

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  11. Dear Bruce, thanks for your article, and your jcivility. I’m curious why the pre COVID year deaths totals increased by such a small amount in 2020, suggests deaths being mis reported as COVID deaths. Total deaths up by 60,000, yet 345,000 newCOVID deaths.

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    1. As stated earlier, when somebody dies from heart disease or cancer the cause of death tends to be rather clear, this is not necessarily the case when it comes to Covid-19. The fact that so many older and unhealthy people have been the victims means it may have contributed to the death and not the cause still allowed deaths to be moved into the Covid-19 column. Also, I understand hospitals have more to gain when dealing with Covid-19 patients, meaning it could be about money.

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    2. And our ancient friend the 'flu' has miraculously disappeared. Hmmm, I wonder... NAH! 'They' would not lie to us... would they?

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  12. "COVID-19 was listed as the underlying cause of 345,323 deaths during 2020"
    That doesn't mean it was.

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  13. The poor math skills seem to be yours.
    From the CDC article you cite: "In 2020, approximately 3,358,814 deaths occurred in the United States." Not 2,845,793.
    A substantial increase!

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  14. Thank you! Short and sweet.
    "Vengeance is Mine" sayeth the Lord of all Science and Hosts.

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  15. People are so dumbed down these days, that they can't even look at a graph and know what they're seeing. EVEN IF THE VIRUS WRE REAL (see my comments to others here) the so-called 'pandemic' (it doesn't even fit the criteria for that), it was OVER by April 17th of LAST year. Here's CDC director Redfield telling the world that the so-called 'pandemic was over, at the President's Coronavirus briefing on April 17th, LAST year, at about 40:00 https://www.c-span.org/video/?471279-1/president-trump-coronavirus-task-force-briefing

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  16. Putting a hold on J & J will be the first sign to the huge majority of those who have already had the two shots ~ something might be amiss!

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  17. The CoronaVirus (PLANDEMIC) Lockdowns, Masks & Social Distancing were Used to Stop the Protests Going On All Over The World Since the 2008/09 Bankster Mortgage Financial Collapse That Is Still Ongoing..!!!!!

    Bailed Out in 2009 - 29 Trillion, Ron Paul Audit.

    Bailed Out Again in 2020 = 4+ Trillion, No Audits.!!!!!

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  18. Yes, the 'handling' of the narrative has been 'masterfully managed' - even if, as was/is a possiblity - reactively.
    It had, and still has, built-in plausible deniability and adaptability from the word 'go'.
    I have many questions about what has been 'claimed' to have gone on in this 'pandemic'; we live in a world of ubiquitous deceit, and with its incredible level of complexity it is difficult fully understand everything, AND to know who is trustworthy.
    And Bruce, you claim "This is why incomes have risen to an all-time high while tens of millions of workers have sat at home during the lock-downs." - precisely whose incomes are you referring to?

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