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I'm arguing that the comparison with AIDS that someone else made is an inaccurate one, since AIDS can shorten the life of someone that was healthy before they g
by sorenjan 6y ago
I'm arguing that the comparison with AIDS that someone else made is an inaccurate one, since AIDS can shorten the life of someone that was healthy before they got it. Nobody in a hospice is healthy, and a large part of the ones that died with or by covid would have died within 30 days anyway.
- cygx 6y agoIf that were all there is to Covid, the excess mortality in Q2 should have been compensated by a reduction in Q3. While we do see such a reduction for Q3 in the numbers for Stockholm (which I cited in a sibling comment), it's too small to balance the tally.
- sorenjan 6y agoIt's not all there is to covid, but I think it's still worth observing. I mentioned in another comment that the total number of deaths in Sweden in 2020 up to November 1 is 3000 more than average the same period during 2015-2019. That's about half of the total number of official covid deaths.