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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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Sorry my mistake 13.5 million dead is meaningfully different than 15 million dead from Covid. (That also assumes overdosed doubled in the time period which I made up just to discuss magnitudes)
If we use 13.5 million instead of 15 million it moves Covid in the deadliest pandemic ranking from the 5th deadliest pandemic to the ……..
And regardless of if you wanted say 10 million or 15 million died over the two years you would probably say Covid was 10-20 times more deadly than the flu. So where is the confirmation bias?