Just doing some general math here. Voat is a low ranked site. The number of upvoats on this (as of 4-10-20 10pm mountain time) is 14. At this moment, there are 16k deaths attributed to SARS-2 (COVID19). If there are 300M people in the US, then the death rate is 1 in 20k. At this point, there is 3 reported deaths in this post (directly known people) and one "friend of a friend" reported death.
Let's assume that 5 % of the people who view this post upvoat. That's 280 views. And let's assume that those 280 people each know about 100 other people. That's a network of about 28k people. So on average, we should have about 1.5 cases of death reported, but we see 4 reported here in the comments. It 4 instead of 1-2 seems plausible, but given that I'm being generous about the upvoats and knowing 100 other people, it seems like there's a little manipulation going on.
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Just doing some general math here. Voat is a low ranked site. The number of upvoats on this (as of 4-10-20 10pm mountain time) is 14. At this moment, there are 16k deaths attributed to SARS-2 (COVID19). If there are 300M people in the US, then the death rate is 1 in 20k. At this point, there is 3 reported deaths in this post (directly known people) and one "friend of a friend" reported death.
Let's assume that 5 % of the people who view this post upvoat. That's 280 views. And let's assume that those 280 people each know about 100 other people. That's a network of about 28k people. So on average, we should have about 1.5 cases of death reported, but we see 4 reported here in the comments. It 4 instead of 1-2 seems plausible, but given that I'm being generous about the upvoats and knowing 100 other people, it seems like there's a little manipulation going on.