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https://www.bioinformaticscro.com/blog/states-ranked-by-age-adjusted-covid-deaths/ https://www.bioinformaticscro.com/blog/states-ranked-by-age-... Age adjusted
by seibelj 4y ago
https://www.bioinformaticscro.com/blog/states-ranked-by-age-adjusted-covid-deaths/ https://www.bioinformaticscro.com/blog/states-ranked-by-age-...
Age adjusted deaths are basically equal for California and Florida, and vastly higher in NY.
Florida was essentially an open air party with no mask mandates way back in summer 2021. No one wants to look at reality.
- ajross 4y ago"Age-adjusted death" has never been a term of art anywhere in the history on epidemiology. It's a term invented during the COVID-19 pandemic precisely to make the argument you are attempting here. It's wrong, and it's deliberately misleading.
- seibelj 4y agoI don’t think any amount of evidence will convince the never-freedom mask-forever types. The mass deaths and horrors beyond comprehension prophesied for those who dared walk maskless simply never happened.
- ajross 4y agoNow you're moving goalposts and going weirdly ad-hominem. The subject was economics, whether saving 2-12M lives globally (extrapolation from the numbers under discussion) was worth a few quarters of heightened inflation. I don't recall anyone claiming you need "mass deaths and horrors beyond comprehension" to justify tolerating 8% inflation. But given the actual measured impact? Yes, that seems undeniably tolerable to me. It's the right call.