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so we go from >3,448 to 15,620 confirmed deaths to >25,000 to 69,000 estimated deaths? It's no wonder Americans have trust issues with medical experts. Th
by toolz 7y ago
so we go from
>3,448 to 15,620
confirmed deaths to
>25,000 to 69,000
estimated deaths? It's no wonder Americans have trust issues with medical experts. That's an absurd number created just to scare people into getting vaccinated. Which appears to be the authors opinion as well.
> While in the past it was justifiable to err on the side of substantially overestimating flu deaths, in order to encourage vaccination and good hygiene
I feel like trust is entirely undervalued in the scientific community. How are lay people expected to follow scientific advice if we can't trust the scientists?
- thetrumanshow 7y agoWhy the downvotes for this guy? The article makes the specific claim that the flu death numbers are allowed to be inflated through lax CDC reporting rules so that people are encouraged to get vaccinated and practice good hygiene. Shouldn't that make us skeptical?
- HPsquared 7y agoAfter this is all settled we can compare all-cause mortality. It may be complicated by lockdown side-effects though, so we might never know.
- gpderetta 7y agoThere are countries that are under lockdown with relatively small exposure to covid which can be used as control. Even within a country, lockdown rules are often homogeneous, while the spread of the virus can be quite patchy, allowing for some form of control.
- klagermkii 7y agoThis thing of misleading people on the details so that they make the Correct Decision in the short term seems very dangerous. I know in tech there's a tendency to do something similar when faced with clueless management, feeding just the information you know they need to hear to get them to make the right choice and think they came up with it themselves. Really don't like this applied on a society level though.