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Re:Sturgis Motorcycle Rally was 'superspreading event,' cost... by azinman2 on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @01:49AM (#24417641)
No. The death being due to covid isn’t in dispute. It’s about characterizing who is at most risk. You can be young and have health problems while still living for many more decades, but then you got Covid, died, and now you’re part of the 94%. Given 40% of the US is obese and would fit into this 94%, that’s not something to then ignore and say therefore only 6% of the population could be affected by this. That’s an incorrect understanding of the statistics.

This misrepresentation has been dangerously incorrectly stated either intentionally or ignorantly by people who have an agenda to push, and that agenda isn’t in service to public health.

Re:Sturgis Motorcycle Rally was 'superspreading event,' cost... by blumomo on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @04:52AM (#24418857)
That's one way to interpret the story but that's not how would suggest to understand things. Given your explanation model we could easily argue that every dead person which tested positive for herpes will be accounted to herpes. And a huge chunk of the population has it.
Re:Sturgis Motorcycle Rally was 'superspreading event,' cost... by azinman2 on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @12:46PM (#24422893)
Re:Sturgis Motorcycle Rally was 'superspreading event,' cost... by azinman2 on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @03:00PM (#24424510)
Furthermore, excess deaths are off the charts, which cannot be explained by these other factors all of the sudden becoming fatal: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
Re:Sturgis Motorcycle Rally was 'superspreading event,' cost... by blumomo on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @04:46PM (#24425727)
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