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200,000 people (at least) are dead here in the US. That is not a small event that is being exaggerated by a hysterical media.
by inthewoods 6y ago
200,000 people (at least) are dead here in the US. That is not a small event that is being exaggerated by a hysterical media.
- tux1968 6y agoThat's a really shallow analysis though. It doesn't consider how many of those people would have survived without a pandemic, and it doesn't count suicides and degraded quality of life costs due to the lockdown rather than the disease.
- inthewoods 6y agoYou're right but likely in the wrong direction: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02497-w https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02497-w We may be undercounting the number of deaths.
- dredmorbius 6y agoExcess deaths can and have been tracked based on overall mortality and deviation from previous years. The estimate is greater than official COVID-19 statistics for the US, being 248,000 as of 11 September. Worldwide, excess mortality exceeds COVID-19 statistcs (presently nearing 1 million) by 263,000. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronavirus-missing-deaths.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...
- tux1968 6y agoObviously -- we're living through a pandemic, and people are out congregating in large protests and other gatherings. The point is that the numbers thrown around like 200k deaths are not reduced by the natural mortality rate of that population. On top of which, never is it considered the cost in lives and quality of life of the response, only its supposed benefits. The number of people who have not gone for regular doctor check-ups which would have detected cancer at the early stages.. are yet to be tallied in the deaths caused by our overreaction.
- dredmorbius 6y agoIncorrect.