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> All the numbers you've ever heard for deaths from any disease have the same artifacts as the Covid-19 deaths This isn’t true. Lots of diseases, including ma
by nostromo 6y ago
> All the numbers you've ever heard for deaths from any disease have the same artifacts as the Covid-19 deaths
This isn’t true. Lots of diseases, including malaria, have high fatality rates among children or healthy people.
Most people that die from malaria are under 5 years old. Most people that die from HIV are under 50. Most people that die from COVID are over 70.
- tsimionescu 6y agoWe don't normally count each infection for AIDS or malaria - the numbers are often statistical estimates, not absolute counts as we get for Covid19. Even for just this reason alone, it's absurd to then come back and claim they are somehow less accurate than the AIDS or malaria numbers. Also, if you want to look for the died of/died with difference in AIDS or malaria, Malaria and HIV are huge epidemics in similar areas, so there is a good chance that many people die of malaria and AIDS at the same time - did the malaria kill them, or the AIDS? Most of the people dying of malaria also have problems with malnutrition - does that invalidate the fact that malaria killed them? HIV is often correlated with drug use - I think it's more than likely that a few people counted as AIDS deaths were also overdosing on something. You can find all sorts of correlations.