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"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
by 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.