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> Excess deaths capture the deaths from lockdown related causes too, like my grandmother, who died when her social life was indefinitely stopped, and teenagers
by StavrosK 5y ago
> Excess deaths capture the deaths from lockdown related causes too, like my grandmother, who died when her social life was indefinitely stopped, and teenagers that committed suicide due to lockdowns
If only we had an easy mathematical tool to calculate how many people in the excess mortality numbers didn't die of COVID. We could call it "subtraction".
- bellyfullofbac 5y agoBut whether someone died of Covid or not is also another area of dispute. The "it's just a flu" crowd can cite dubious websites saying "Oh the government is fudging the stats, there were many deaths being recorded as Covid-deaths even if they're not (Stupid example: man flies off motorcycle into wall, dies. Autopsy shows he has the virus in his blood, the conspiracy theorists will say the Illuminati/Bill Gates/the government will record that as a death due to Covid). Inversely, there's also reports of governments not testing people who died for the virus, to make their numbers look good so they don't end up in some "Do not travel" list, or because they don't want their population angry and removing them from power. Even India is still fudging its numbers lately. At least it's hard to dispute the status of being dead, and "excess deaths" is a usable number.