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Because lockdowns only work if you actually lockdown. That and yes, FL clearly lied and has fired people for indicating correct numbers. This is not helped by
by olliej 6y ago
Because lockdowns only work if you actually lockdown.
That and yes, FL clearly lied and has fired people for indicating correct numbers. This is not helped by many US states that try to record CV19 deaths as being due to "underlying conditions" instead of covid.
If you go to hospital due to covid, and then die, whatever other conditions you have aren't relevant, covid is what killed you.
- manwe150 6y agoOr maybe something like temperature or humidity, since California is also doing much worse than Florida (27% v 17%) for simple excess deaths this year: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/14/us/covid-19-death-toll.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/14/us/covid-19-d... I think it is clear we still don’t understand fully the driving risk and safety factors across different regional areas, let alone continents and hemispheres. I don’t know how we ever could at this time or what we could do about it. Edit: And examining average death rate instead provides a different story as well: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-03-09/covid-19-florida-california-compared-deaths-economy https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-03-09/covid-19...
- nradov 6y agoPeople who claim the Florida state government is lying are no different from QAnon conspiracy theorists. Where is your hard data? What are the real numbers? Where are they hiding the bodies?
- monocasa 6y agoDid you miss that whole "police raids of epidemiologists who don't want to edit the data" thing that happened in Florida? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/07/florida-police-raid-data-scientist-coronavirus https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/07/florida-poli...