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The purpose of the excess death model is to measure the real number of deaths without having to argue about whether they were caused by covid infection or not.
by eckmLJE 5y ago
The purpose of the excess death model is to measure the real number of deaths without having to argue about whether they were caused by covid infection or not. It is simply the difference between the typical number of deaths in a given time and the real number of deaths -- unless you're saying that death certificates are being fabricated altogether?
- lanevorockz 5y agoYou are being silly here ... We know for a matter of FACT that the death count was exaggerated in order to make sure the pandemic could be tackled. For example, people that died and had direct contact with someone with covid are AUTOMATICALLY covid deaths. I know that The Economist is not an honest source but we should still be rational to think about these. If we succumb to eternal politicisation, there is no hope for this society anymore.
- scld 5y agoI haven't heard any stories about entire death certificates being fabricated.....you'd either have hundreds of living people who were considered dead by the state, or you'd have entirely fabricated people showing up as "dead".
- bitexploder 5y agoYou completely ignored their point. We don't care about COVID-19 in this discussion. We care about how many people were dying from any cause. Then you attack the economist as a dishonest source when they literally provided their data and made it very easy to audit and verify their claims. Join the actual conversation here, please.