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What part of it is hysteria and panic? Over 600k people died in the US alone.
by kevingadd 5y ago
What part of it is hysteria and panic? Over 600k people died in the US alone.
- spookthesunset 5y agoThat doesn’t mean any of what we did helped. It could have made things much, much worse.
- r00fus 5y ago[citation needed] You can see effectiveness of response based on various states and regions that responded differently.
- spookthesunset 5y agoTurns out somebody took public, government source data and tried to compare regions. Good luck telling regions apart. https://www.covidchartsquiz.com/ https://www.covidchartsquiz.com/ Nope, the restrictions really didn’t do anything at all.
- NaturalPhallacy 5y agoholy shit.
- adjkant 5y agoI see 5 cherry picked examples without considerations of many factors. All of this ignoring the clear trend we see in current deaths with Delta. Just two basic things the charts don't consider: 1. If people followed mask mandates in states (e.g. Alabama vs Florida) 2. Population density and disease spread models (e.g. comparing Montana and Idaho felt like a reach, California vs Nevada doesn't consider spread in major cities vs how many major cities there are in each) We absolutely should study this later, but some of these restrictions were little to no cost. Let's not lump them all together. Wearing a mask indoors vs if your kid can go to school or not are two very different value equations that may merit different answers of "if a restriction is worth it"
- NaturalPhallacy 5y agoOne of the last questions literally has all 50 states represented. How is that cherry picking?
- NaturalPhallacy 5y ago~400K Americans die of preventable medical errors every year. No hysteria. No pandemic. Not even news coverage. Our population grew by 0.58% during the pandemic. The media does its very best to blow everything out of proportion for ratings. COVID is no exception. What a win for big pharma. 640,000,000 doses of a drug they can't be sued for. It's absolutely fantastic for them. Now look at who they bribe. It's been an incredibly good couple of years for our oligarchy.
- throwawaymsft 5y agoTu quoque, COVID: we foolishly ignore other fixable problems so we should ignore this too?
- NaturalPhallacy 5y agoStrawman version of what I said, of course. You had no idea about the preventable medical errors killing 400K people a year did you?