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Re:Overdose deaths far outpace Covid-19 deaths in San Francisco by newacct583 on Sunday December 20, 2020 @03:17PM (#25489178)
> You know this isn't true because practically every local area that suffers an outbreak follows the same curve regardless of how they implement a strategy.

That's just laughably wrong. Explain how these are the "same curve"?

https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=countr...

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Re:Overdose deaths far outpace Covid-19 deaths in San Francisco by gnusty_gnurc on Sunday December 20, 2020 @03:25PM (#25489228)
Did you even read what I said? I said local outbreaks all follow the same spread curve.

When aggregated at the country level you're looking at many separate outbreaks superimposed, hence the wide curves.

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Re:Overdose deaths far outpace Covid-19 deaths in San Francisco by newacct583 on Sunday December 20, 2020 @04:05PM (#25489486)
And that too seems trivially falsifiable. You have something to cite?
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