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Re:Covid-19: the harms of exaggerated information and non‐ev... by listsfrin on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @03:13AM (#22672737)
In normal times Italy has a death rate of 10 deaths/1000 people. Which translates to ~1500 daily for a population of 60 millions. What were they doing previously with the dead?
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Re:Covid-19: the harms of exaggerated information and non‐ev... by gpderetta on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @04:46AM (#22673120)
Those people haven't stopped dying. As a comparison, 700 people have been dying every day for covid-19 in Italy. Also deaths are not (yet) evenly distributed but greatly concentated in the north.
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Re:Covid-19: the harms of exaggerated information and non‐ev... by marknutter on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @12:15PM (#22675834)
> Those people haven't stopped dying

Right... they're dying from covid-19.

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Re:Covid-19: the harms of exaggerated information and non‐ev... by listsfrin on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @07:44AM (#22674020)
You are building the world around your arguments. You have no proof but still talk, talk, talk.
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Re:Covid-19: the harms of exaggerated information and non‐ev... by CydeWeys on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @09:36AM (#22674675)
What does that even mean? The world is what it is. Italy is seeing huge increases in background death rates at the moment, owing solely to COVID-19 (while at the same time seeing diminished deaths from things like traffic accidents, though not remotely enough to make up for all the extra COVID-19 deaths).

What is your argument exactly? It's a fact that Italy is running at a higher overall mortality rate owing to COVID-19.

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Re:Covid-19: the harms of exaggerated information and non‐ev... by Gigablah on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @07:50AM (#22674057)
You didn’t refute him/her.
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Re:Covid-19: the harms of exaggerated information and non‐ev... by fcurts on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @03:42AM (#22672861)
They buried or cremated them. Unsurprisingly, the system can't handle a sudden one-of-a-kind spike.
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Re:Covid-19: the harms of exaggerated information and non‐ev... by kgwgk on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @09:37AM (#22674681)
Covid-19 deaths are not spread out over the country. There are places where people is dying at four times the usual rate.
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