More Fake AIDS Statistics
Speaking of numbers, Park La Brea News/Beverly Press reporter Amy Lyons apparently smoked a little too much Sustiva at West Hollywood’s World AIDS Day celebrations. In this week’s issue, she quoted Aid for AIDS Director Brenda Goodman as saying:
“In California, we have lost more than 86,000 friends and loved ones. This is unacceptable.”
By any count, 86,000 is a big number – so big that I went back to this published AMA report on infectious disease during the 20th century.
In it, the researchers not only found infectious disease was statistically irrelevant by 1960, but that during the height of the AIDS pandemic in 1996, no more than 15 per 100,000 people died from AIDS. Unlike the AMA, the CDC only posts estimates.
To be generous to Amy, Brenda and the CDC, let’s assume than HIV remained at its pandemic peak of 15 per 100,000. Extrapolating JAMA’s 15 to Brenda’s 86,000 would require a population of more than 573 million residents. Since the US only has about 305 million residents and California only about 36 million, it seems that Brenda’s estimates are probably off by ~81,000:
360 X 15 deaths per 100K = 5400
These numbers are consistent with those reported in South Africa and Australia. In Italy, officials waded through the unsupported estimates and concluded that HIV infections were well below those numbers and limited to a handful of IV drug addicts.
Whether Ms. Goodman’s number is 5000 or 86,000, the fact that 81.2 million Americans have died from all causes since 1980 puts her numbers into a clearer perspective.
December 4th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
There’s no trouble with the statistics there, Clark. She got them from the resident idiot charlatan scientists at East Anglia University, who were more than happy to assist her in figuring the total devastation projected. Also, the numbers were confirmed by Obama’s own Office of Statistical Analysis and Technical Corrections, headed, of course, by Geithner and Bernanke.
December 5th, 2009 at 9:38 am
LOL! - Thanks Carlos. At least they verified the data at two credible sources.
December 5th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
I also suspect those are the sources of Duh-1’s employment figures - you know, the “jobs saved or created” ones.
For the shopping season, attendance is up but spending is down. Now, had this been GB’s baby the papers would have been screaming by now that disaster has already destroyed us but we commoners are just too stooopid to realize it. Because spending is measurably down, it sounds more like fewer people have money to spend, meaning fewer people are adequately employed, meaning EAU has done another bang-up job with the numbers maybe?
December 19th, 2009 at 12:13 am
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