Coronavirus and 77 in the Media (Part 2)

Shortly after the Coronavirus was all over the mainstream media, I made a post about the disproportionate appearence of 77 in the media compared to any other numbers. I've heard rumors, but need to do more research, that certain numbers, like 33 and 77 are favoured by those who own and control the mainstream media.

The other day I searched 77 and coronavirus in the news again. I searched for results in the last week and 24 hours, and sure enough I've found it again. Whenever there's an update about number of cases in Thailand, whether it's 47 or 68, the story has to report how many number of provinces are infected divided by the number of provinces Thailand has: 77, as if the denominator continues to matter.

If any famous person dies or contracts the disease at 77, anytime we can find 77% change in a social behaviour such as in-store shopping down 77%, whenever there's 77 cases or deaths in a population, you bet it will be in the mainstream news.

I continue to search these numbers and see how often there are results for it, at the same time I check other random numbers, but that's not a very sophisticated test. Perhaps somebody could run proper statistical analyses, or at least discuss in the comments. Here's a few hits from the end of March and April so far:

• Sweden sees just 77 new deaths

• One more victim of coronavirus in Tamil Nadu; 77 new cases found

• 7 new cases, 1 death in Tamil

• Coronavirus: 77 laboratory confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Derry and Strabane

• 77 New Coronavirus Deaths in Massachusetts, 1,588 New Cases

• Wuhan lifts lockdown after 77 days

• Death toll reaches 77 in India

• 77 confirmed cases in hay county

• 77 new cases in Massachusettes

• In store shopping down 77%

• 77 Alberta Health Care Workers infected

• BC announces 77 new coronavirus cases in the interior

• At least 77 Canadians aboard cruise ship with COVID-19 cases

• Coronavirus deaths increase to 77 cases

• Burlington County reports 77 new Coronavirus cases