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Originally Posted by Just a guy
Lets talk significance. Using your 750K number per year (link was only to 2019 so somewhat irrelevant) and over 2 years would equal 1.5M. 15M (as stated in the article) deaths minus the actual Covid of 6M is 9M excess deaths. 1.5M of 9M is about 17% of excess deaths. Not insignificant in my mind.
My comment is that the others were equating all the deaths to Covid and stating that it wasn't just a flu. These are two different things and it certainly seems to me to be using something that does not equate to prove ones point, which seems like confirmation bias to me.
My point had nothing to do with whether Covid impact was exaggerated. Never said that nor believed it. Just that some are using this article improperly.
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Who is using the article improperly?
One person in this thread referenced the article to say that it would have been valuable to combat the idea that covid was "just the flu". Nothing about attributing all 15 million deaths directly to covid. The article seems to show that covid wasn't just the flu. I don't see how it was used improperly.
The article even referenced 6 million deaths attributed directly to covid, the same number you quoted. Global flu mortality is between 200-650k per year, so say 400k-1.3 million over the two year span. That's still 1/5 of covid's number. So even using direct deaths, the article shows that covid wasn't just the flu.