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Yeah, I really don't understand why people are still comparing these numbers like this. It's much more objective to just compare "excess number of deaths compar

• easytiger 6y ago
  That's also not useful. Compare with a season of flu outbreaks, which last year wasn't
  • henrikschroder 6y ago
    Euromomo shows data back to 2016, so you can see how 2020 compares to a bad flu year (2017) and a "good" flu year (2019): https://euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/ https://euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/
  • kolinko 6y ago
    In some countries the excess deaths are higher that during a worst flew year in the last 5 years. But also, since the virus is growing exponentially, differences in countries is by 10-100x, while the differences in the number of tests performed seems to be closer to 2-10x.
• ferzul 6y ago
  the answer is simple: the data is there. you can't compare vietnam and germany on that page - if you can access it. (if i have to signup to read or buy, i'm not really interested. anonymous access used to be possible with paper, and it's still possible today)
  • sgt101 6y ago
    I think it's only marginally useful though; for example you can't rationally make personal or policy decisions using this because the distortion Inthe data that the gp flagged is so large, and also we are so early in this event. In 18 months we will see!
  • acdha 6y ago
    Open it in a private browsing window and anonymity still is possible
    • ignoramous 6y ago
      Private browsing doesn't provide any form of anonymity: https://panopticlick.eff.org/ https://panopticlick.eff.org/ Heck, it is tricky to remain anonymous even over the Tor Browser. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)#Weakness https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)#Weak...
      • acdha 6y ago
        It does in the sense that the comment which I replied to meant it: access without being logged in to an account.
• hkai 6y ago
  Beware of comparing deaths to last year though, I'd rather take a 5 year average