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Unfortunately, it's still not a great comparison. Countries with lockdowns had less deaths from things like other illnesses, traffic accidents, et cetera.
by donkeyd 5y ago
Unfortunately, it's still not a great comparison. Countries with lockdowns had less deaths from things like other illnesses, traffic accidents, et cetera.
- mohanmcgeek 5y agoIt's still a better metric than some guy on science.com effectively saying "I feel this number should be much higher"
- lordnacho 5y agoThe point is to capture all those effects together. People who died in car crashes after 9/11 grounded all the planes have in some sense died from the terrorist attack, even though nothing at the scene suggests it. Same with covid, if someone dies from undiagnosed cancer due to lockdowns, they have been affected by covid in one way or another. That's what the "with or from" comment is about, we get past it by looking at the total effect.
- josephcsible 5y ago> Same with covid, if someone dies from undiagnosed cancer due to lockdowns, they have been affected by covid in one way or another. If a death would have been prevented by just not having lockdowns, then tallies that it's included in being high shouldn't be used to justify having lockdowns.