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Originally Posted by GGG
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? |
The article is about the excess deaths, not the total number. The actual deaths is not a major discussion point of the article. It is not about covid being the flu. I never said nor believe it is. Again my point is that people are saying they wish they had these higher numbers to counter this argument. And as I stated these are two different things.
It is funny that I haven’t disagreed with the article at all, but that doesn’t stop everyone from trying to convince me it is true. My entire point is how it is being used.
My point on significance is that in terms of excess deaths drugs are a significant portion, not insignificant as you stated.