So you think in the US it’s just 150,000 old folks who would’ve been dead by the end of the year otherwise or whatever?
150,000 dead while we’re actually doing things to limit the spread and limit deaths that is, god knows how many more times that it would be if we just did nothing and “let our immune systems handle it”
Last edited by Wonderful Monds; 08-06-2020 at 11:42 PM.
The biggest difference was that other countries waited until they got the virus under control before reopening.
The second biggest difference is that other countries, because they had the virus under control before they opened, could better perform contract tracing whenever an outbreak occurred.
The third biggest difference is mask wearing. The countries that had the most mask wearing reduced cases and deaths significantly.
And here is the famous chart, posted once again, that shows the difference:
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Look, I hate to post one study like it's an end-all, because no one test is an end-all.
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/news-events/...-covid-deaths/
The new study, co-authored by Karligash Glass, Professor of Financial Economics and a respected economic data scientist within Loughborough University’s School of Business and Economics, Professor Anthony Glass (Professor of Managerial Economics, the University of Sheffield), Sam Williams (founder and Director of Economic Insight) and Alasdair Crookes (Consultant at Economic Insight) proposes an enhanced approach to crunching the COVID numbers.
The authors have used statistical techniques to better identify deaths due to COVID, applying the excess death framework more robustly and controlling for other factors that affect mortality. The key findings are as follows:
Actual deaths due to COVID are some 54% or 63% lower than implied by the standard excess deaths measure, and reported excess deaths likely include a significant number of non-COVID deaths.
While it is well known that COVID deaths are concentrated in the elderly, the study finds them to be particularly acute in the very elderly (75-84 and 85+ years old).
Over the lockdown period as a whole Government policy has increased mortality rather than reduced it.
I'm not rude. You ignore our demographics, and make assumptions about other countries that you have no clue about. For instance, Germany opened up even earlier than we did, has a higher population density, and has no more of a propensity for wearing masks than we do. They have far fewer deaths per capita partly because they count deaths differently, but mostly because the don't have so many people who are obese and with diabetes. I'm on the phone with my brother in law all the time to get updates, and it really hasn't been handled differently there. The only difference is tracking, because they are tracked much more closely than we are on a regular day, but if we exchanged 80 million of us with 80 million of them, they would have a handful.
Try to look up information that doesn't align with your memes. You might learn something.
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