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Re:Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections by usaar333 on Saturday June 27, 2020 @08:49AM (#23661510)
Because it's too simplified of a question. That's highly dependent on things like age, sex, and pre-existing conditions. Population wide numbers are in turn dependent on population structure and in turn who gets it.

You see similar problems in places like /r/covid19 on reddit where people argue about IFR with few accepting the meaninglessness of the question.

Complexity is hard, but I don't think the world is better if we oversimplify things.

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Re:Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections by ativzzz on Saturday June 27, 2020 @11:43AM (#23662516)
Because the question is hard, and there are so many answers, you can twist those answers and that data to support pretty much any viewpoint, and ultimately this is the problem with having too much data at our fingertips.
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