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Still over 100 deaths per day in the US. And those are official numbers, certainly an undercount.
by sp332 3y ago
Still over 100 deaths per day in the US. And those are official numbers, certainly an undercount.
- psychlops 3y agoWe haven't been over excess mortality since January according to the CDC. People will always be dying of something, today it's with covid.
- jwineinger 3y agoHow often do they update their baseline?
- psychlops 3y agoTheir website has their charts and methodology pointing out the good and bad: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm#techNotes https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm...
- belltaco 3y agoDo they account for the covid deaths during the pandemic? Since a lot of vulnerable people died early, the number of deaths due to other causes like heart attacks, cancer, old age, diabetes etc. would be lower now than if covid never had happened.
- psychlops 3y agoI mostly look at the total deaths as a benchmark. The way they counted covid deaths changed and had new financial incentives which impacts numbers. Also, I would personally question the early accuracy of false/positive covid testing. The numbers you suggest gets complicated by the fact that many people delayed care due to fear of leaving their houses, much less going to a covid-infested hospital.
- anonporridge 3y ago2400 die every day from heart disease in the US, but those who are still terrified of Covid today generally aren't allocating 24x of their fear budget towards heart disease and starting a regular running habit or improving their diet to flatten that curve. Life belongs to those who learn proper fear prioritization.
- dvngnt_ 3y agoheart attacks don't spread in enclosed spaces
- anonporridge 3y agoNo, but they do spread via memetic infection of cultural norms that direct us as individuals to adopt unhealthy lifestyles.
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- dvngnt_ 3y agowhich is certainly a problem worth solving, but it's still a different issue than a highly infectious disease that can be spread on elevators buses
- jrflowers 3y agoI hate it when I catch an avoidable memetic infection from somebody a couple seats behind me on a plane because of the relaxed memetic infection rules.
- infamouscow 3y agoWho cares? Everyone has been vaccinated at this point unless you're so deluded from reality you missed the vaccination campaigns in every country on Earth.
- landemva 3y ago