Studies Point to Big Drop in Covid-19 Death Rates

Re:Studies Point to Big Drop in Covid-19 Death Rates by blmsjw on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @09:22AM (#24847575)

Arbitrary stat but ok. Deaths are kinda the most important otherwise we wouldn't be shutdown

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Re:Studies Point to Big Drop in Covid-19 Death Rates by inyourtenement on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @09:41AM (#24847773)

Arbitrary!?

This is nonsense. Are you suggesting that if this illness had all the same characteristics -- long hospital stays, long-lasting damage to the body, highly transmissible -- but didn't kill, then we would not be "shutdown"?

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Re:Studies Point to Big Drop in Covid-19 Death Rates by m0zg on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @04:07PM (#24851533)

Wrong hill to die on, bud. 60M people got infected with Swine Flu, and nobody even thought of shutting anything down. Why? Because it was about as deadly as regular flu. So yes, deaths are the right metric to track.

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Re:Studies Point to Big Drop in Covid-19 Death Rates by inyourtenement on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @06:29PM (#24852948)

Completely irrelevant. There were an estimated 274k hospitalizations from swine flu, over the course of that year. So swine flu did not have the characteristics I specified.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-h1n1-pandemi...

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Re:Studies Point to Big Drop in Covid-19 Death Rates by blmsjw on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @07:32PM (#24853455)

"estimated 274k hospitalizations" - remind me again how widespread the swine flu tests were in comparison to COVID?

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Re:Studies Point to Big Drop in Covid-19 Death Rates by blmsjw on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @03:04PM (#24850951)

Yes Arbitrary. Why 100k? Why not 10, 100, 1000, 10,000, 1,000,000? Oh because 100k makes the stats look the best for your argument.

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Re:Studies Point to Big Drop in Covid-19 Death Rates by inyourtenement on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @06:20PM (#24852880)

It's per 100k people in the state. It makes no difference if it's 100 or 100k. The comparison was state-to-state. The absolute numbers don't matter.

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Re:Studies Point to Big Drop in Covid-19 Death Rates by dragonwriter on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @04:10PM (#24851562)

> Why didn't people care about AIDS this much?

Because it disproportionately affected (and was popularly portrayed as doing so even more than it actually did, reinforcing this) homosexuals and intravenous drug users, populations a large portion of the rest of the country actively wanted to die.

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Re:Studies Point to Big Drop in Covid-19 Death Rates by inyourtenement on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @06:16PM (#24852844)

What is it that you think is actually going on? What conspiracy?

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Re:Studies Point to Big Drop in Covid-19 Death Rates by inyourtenement on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @06:10PM (#24852786)

Because it was not transmitted by breathing. jfc.

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