Miguel has documented many times how the anti-gun activists will routinely inflate the number of gun deaths of children by including gang members in their early 20’s and criminals shot by police.
The New York Times seems to have pulled the same bullshit when it comes to inflating the number of COVID deaths.
From the New York Times:
The Project Behind a Front Page Full of Names
A presentation of obituaries and death notices from newspapers around the country tries to frame incalculable loss.
Instead of the articles, photographs or graphics that normally appear on the front page of The New York Times, on Sunday, there is just a list: a long, solemn list of people whose lives were lost to the coronavirus pandemic.
As the death toll from Covid-19 in the United States approaches 100,000, a number expected to be reached in the coming days, editors at The Times have been planning how to mark the grim milestone.
By “mark” they mean “celebrate.”
Simone Landon, assistant editor of the Graphics desk, wanted to represent the number in a way that conveyed both the vastness and the variety of lives lost.
Alain Delaquérière, a researcher, combed through various sources online for obituaries and death notices with Covid-19 written as the cause of death. He compiled a list of nearly a thousand names from hundreds of newspapers. A team of editors from across the newsroom, in addition to three graduate student journalists, read them and gleaned phrases that depicted the uniqueness of each life lost.
Here is what that looks like:
Someone on the internet noticed this:
From KCRG 9 Cedar Rapids:
Case of man found dead in car off of I-380 in Cedar Rapids ruled a homicide, police say
The Cedar Rapids Police Department said the case of a 27-year-old man found dead in a crashed vehicle off I-380 is being investigated as a homicide.
On March 12, authorities responded to crash in a wooded area near northbound I-380 and 76th Ave. SW. A property owner in the area saw the vehicle in the wooded area and indicated that someone was inside.
When responders got to the scene, they found Jordan Haynes dead at the scene.
On Friday, the police department said an autopsy ruled Haynes’ death a homicide.
Additional details were not released as the investigation is active and ongoing.
So Cedar Rapids police report his death as a homicide and the New York Times reports it as COVID.
There seems to be a discrepancy here.
So much for the quality of the research and editing that went into this front page. I suspect that as people go through this, the will find many more cases like this where young people reported by the NYT of dying of COVID actually died of something else.
Now I’m not suggesting that COVID is not dangerous, it clearly is to the elderly and people with underlying medical conditions.
However, it seems that some people have a vested political interest in making it seem more scary than it actually is, and it’s that latter part that undermines the credibility of the government and media.
I could say this is just sloppy work, but it’s funny how these mistakes always go in the direction of bolstering their arguments.
If their cause is righteous why lie?
I’d bet actual COVID deaths are probably about half of what is being advertised. In NY, it’s the only thing anyone dies from.
Out of that snippet, Mr. Haynes isn’t just a non-COVID death. He’s also the youngest person by over 2 1/2 decades.
That detail alone should have been a red flag calling for extra fact-checking. But that’s expecting too much from today’s media.
Why let facts get in the way of a good blood dance?
If they are counting it, they are able to calculate it.
the odd thing is, the text in the full-page picture does not include the Haynes entry, at list not in that location
That name did not appear in the screen capture of the front page at all. My guess it’s that the NYT did a stealth edit once the push back started. GFZ often takes images just to protect against that sort of edit.
Also, there are a number of 20 something’s in that list which another commentor pointed out should have been a red flag as strange.
Finally, in the image provided, there was an old man “freed from life in prison”