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> This is true. The problem is that if COVID is anywhere in the cascade, the death gets recorded as being entirely because of COVID. That's not a problem if yo
by tablespoon 5y ago
> This is true. The problem is that if COVID is anywhere in the cascade, the death gets recorded as being entirely because of COVID.
That's not a problem if your goal is to determine the effects of the COVID variable (or the effects on interventions on it), which is what most people are trying to do with these statistics.
Trying to discount deaths other than those entirely attributable to COVID in public discourse is really just a propaganda tactic to downplay COVID. It's not something you'd do if your goal was anything else.
- josephcsible 5y agoBut we don't do the same for any other cause of death. For example, we don't track "obesity deaths". Are we downplaying literally every other cause of death in the world?
- tablespoon 5y ago> But we don't do the same for any other cause of death. For example, we don't track "obesity deaths". Are we downplaying literally every other cause of death in the world? So? Maybe a deadly pandemic disease is different than obesity and shouldn't be treated exactly the same.
- josephcsible 5y agoIt seems like circular logic to use the fact that a disease is called "deadly" to justify more lax standards for counting deaths caused by it.