Re:Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County ...
by GhostVII on Monday May 11, 2020 @07:40PM
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To expand on that, I don't disagree that it could be happening in some cases. But I think it is very misleading to use it as a way to say that COVID is not as bad as we say. It is clear by the increase in deaths year-over-year that the death counts we are getting are roughly in line with what is being reported. Maybe "conspiracy theory" is a bit strong, but I absolutely think it is an invalid reason for downplaying the virus given that we can clearly see many more people are dying than last year in the same time period.
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Re:Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County ...
by x3n0ph3n3 on Monday May 11, 2020 @07:47PM
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Do you have a good source for differences in overall deaths between this year and last year?
Re:Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County ...
by GhostVII on Monday May 11, 2020 @07:57PM
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The New York Times did a report on it [0]. It's important to note that not all of the increase in deaths is necessarily due to the virus itself, the lockdown could be causing more deaths due to people being resistant to going to the hospital, in which case lifting the lockdown would reduce these deaths.
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/05/us/coronaviru...
Re:Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County ...
by warkdarrior on Monday May 11, 2020 @07:58PM
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Re:Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County ...
by ImprobableTruth on Monday May 11, 2020 @08:00PM
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The NYT[0] has some neat graphs, but it's not a primary source. EuroMOMO[1] is a source for Europe, but I don't know what the equivalent would be for the US.
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...
Re:Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County ...
by mwest217 on Monday May 11, 2020 @08:18PM
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The CDC has a page about it [here](https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm).