Ive debunked this statistical turd so many times I just wish I saved it once and could just copy the response again and again. I dont even need to look at the link anymore. Its clear that people who cite Briands presentation HAVENT READ IT. Look at what her math is doing. This is a great example of how to lie with stats and charts.

She says the “death rate” hasnt changed much for any age group. What she means is that death from each age group have not changed much AS A PROPORTION of the over death “pie” although the “pie” (all death) has grown substantially. She doesn’t deny this. Her data is from the CDC which already showed a massive increase in death by September ( date of her presentation). This is a misleading use of “death rate”, intentionally IMO. Deaths went up for every age group PROPORTIONALLY.

She pushes the idea that because the normal variation of total deaths per week may vary plus minus 10 or 15% from the mean (50,000 to 70,000), i.e. the frequency chart of deaths per week is a normal bell curve, that it was typical to see weeks with 70,000 or 80,000 dead people because “normal variation” is a thing. This is also deceptive, because since April the data in her analysis showed that EVERY SINGLE WEEK had between a 10 and 40% increase in deaths compared to all previous weeks of death data. That is not “normal variation”, that is a signal shift. You cannot explain away such a long consistent trend as variation or “noise” which is what she is attempting to do. The probability that such a trend is the result of random variation in the old signal is essentially zero. Its flim flam perpetrated on people that dont understand that she is delivering the “normal variation” argument. Like you.

I double checked her claims about cardiac deaths on the CDC site and there is no massive drop in cardiac related deaths as she claims. All other major causes of death stayed about the same once you subtract all covid related deaths. I dont know what specific death codes her charts are pulling from, but I checked the CDC data. There is no drop in heart attacks.

There were like 3 or 4 dishonest claims in that presentation that I pulled apart. I cant remember what all of them were. But there’s a start. Challenge me with any one of her dishonest claims specifically and I will tear it down. Because when you look at the numbers that are really going in to her shadey little metrics, its fake. Deceptive and misleading. Check for yourself.

She’s not making up data as far as I can tell. She’s presenting it deceptively. I used to do this shit for a living. Lie professionally with excel spreadsheets. So I know what Im looking for.