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The average person looking at this headline will assume it means COVID caused 4 million deaths. There’s even a colon used, implying that the thing before the co
by ceilingcorner 5y ago
The average person looking at this headline will assume it means COVID caused 4 million deaths. There’s even a colon used, implying that the thing before the colon implies the thing after it.
A less misleading headline would be something like:
> 4 million excess deaths in India: caused by COVID or the response to COVID?
- srean 5y agoWhy stop there, why not add the full paraphernalia and their parents. The fine print towards the end of medicine advertisements make such great titles, dont you agree ? I have a strong suspicion that its only people reading the title in bad faith who will assume that the word 'caused' does not include all sorts of causations triggered by Covid, be it direct or indirect.
- aww_dang 5y agoStarvation and supply chain issues are caused by the lockdowns. I'd say that the lockdowns are caused by politicians. It is a bit like, "why did you make me beat you?"
- alexisread 5y agoThe phrase 'response to COVID' is pretty much a dog whistle for conspiracy theorists. '4 million excess deaths in India: directly caused by COVID?' Would leave it less politicised. TBH I'm fine with the headline anyway.
- mardifoufs 5y agoIf you're the only person that always hear dogwhistles... Maybe you are the dog?
- defaultprimate 5y agoThe only ones who can detect dog whistles are dogs.
- detaro 5y agoPosing a question the data explicitly doesn't even attempt to answer is not a useful title either.