{"id":11136,"date":"2020-12-14T02:22:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T02:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=11136"},"modified":"2020-12-14T03:22:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T03:22:47","slug":"false-10-of-the-15-deadliest-days-in-american-history-occurred-in-the-past-two-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2020\/12\/14\/false-10-of-the-15-deadliest-days-in-american-history-occurred-in-the-past-two-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"False: 10 of the 15 deadliest days in American history occurred in the past two weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"

This table, in various forms, is widely shared on social media. Can you spot the errors? Most are surprisingly incapable of noticing the problems here.<\/p>\n

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It leaves out the Spanish Flu pandemic. A staggering 195,000 people died just in October of 1918<\/a>\u00a0which is an average of almost 6,300 per day.<\/p>\n

It leaves out June 6, 1944 when 4,144 Americans died on a beach in France<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It lies about Gettysburg – 7,863 troops died. The 3,155 is only counting the Union troops. In fact, many battles in the US Civil War killed thousands of soldiers in each battle.<\/a>\u00a0In fact, 5 other battles each killed more than 3,155.<\/p>\n

The Galveston hurricane killed 6,000 to 12,000 with 8,000 being the commonly used estimate.<\/p>\n

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About 8,000 people die every day in the U.S., on average. I suspect there are other dark days in U.S. history as well but its not worth looking them up – the point is, this table is flawed through censorship and cherry picking.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I suspect there were some high death days during the 1968 flu pandemic<\/a> – which I lived through. But incredibly, there was little to no news coverage, no daily reports of new cases and deaths, no closed schools or businesses, no face masks.<\/div>\n
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Keyword Indexing:<\/div>\n
Of the 15 deadliest days in American history, 10 of them have happened within the last two weeks.<\/div>\n

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This chart is making the rounds on social media. It leaves out so many things as to be declared False by me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,25,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-censorship","category-cherry-picking","category-internet-meme","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}