Posted by: aShogunNamedMarcus
Yep my argument is always wrong aint it? Two pages for you tell me the same shit differently, again. I'm going for the small victories here, such as you and serfer being wrong that deaths are down. That's the context of the two graph's I posted. It's very simple and does not take two pages to explain. Which would mean both yours and Serf's context is wrong.
We are not saying that deaths are down. For starters, that's too ambiguous a statement as there are two figures for deaths, total deaths and the daily death count.
#1 As long as this virus hangs around there are going to be deaths from it and the total death count will continue to rise. So saying that the total death count under Biden is higher than Trump may be true, but it doesn't establish anything. You also can't try and extrapolate any sort of claim from total deaths as there are several variables to consider when trying to make that comparison.
#2 The daily death count or death rate is something that can be argued, but again IMO I think it's challenging to do so as there are several variables at play including the vaccines coming online. However, the daily death count could be used to argue the effectiveness of the administration in dealing with the virus at a certain point in time.
The problem is that you tried to connect the increase in deaths during the first few weeks of Biden's term to him somehow being at fault for that increase which is just wrong. This is why people tried to explain how viruses work and the lag effect. You can't correlate those deaths in the early part of the Biden administration to his administration. Besides the lag effect of the virus, it's going to take several weeks before any policies/programs can get put into place and be up and running in order to have any effects. That is the context and you got it completely wrong. That is my point, and I believe that of other people as well. In terms of the death rate it is currently going down under Biden. Ironically, your first graph which shows the time frame just past the point where Biden took power is already trending down or flat at the point Biden took over which shows that the death rate was already starting to slow at the tail end of Trump's term. So not only was the point you were trying to make completely wrong, you couldn't even see that your own evidence was saying the opposite of what you were trying to claim.
