Re:Excess Deaths in 2020
by runako on Thursday April 29, 2021 @11:08AM
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> 2-3x more people, max
Rounding, that's possibly another 1-2 million people. Those are big numbers!
Also one quibble in that most of the US did not have an extended lockdown. Here in GA ours lasted basically a month. As others have said, people voluntarily stayed home, in part because the exponents of letting the disease "run its course" tended to exhibit a level of comfort with millions of deaths that perhaps is not widely shared in the population.
Rounding, that's possibly another 1-2 million people. Those are big numbers!
Also one quibble in that most of the US did not have an extended lockdown. Here in GA ours lasted basically a month. As others have said, people voluntarily stayed home, in part because the exponents of letting the disease "run its course" tended to exhibit a level of comfort with millions of deaths that perhaps is not widely shared in the population.