Re:Visualizing observed deaths using polar coordinates
by stardenburden on Thursday August 26, 2021 @10:11PM
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In Germany less people died through the pandemic than died in normal years. At least in 2020.
What happened was that people were overly careful - in all parts of life, e.g. meeting people, wearing masks (less of a flu season = less deaths) and going to a doctor when sick - hospital s greatly increased their capacity and afaik Germany never had the dramatic situations where people couldn't get oxygen or staff was at the edge of quitting.
Re:Visualizing observed deaths using polar coordinates
by jeffbee on Thursday August 26, 2021 @11:44PM
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Even just eyeballing the Euromomo.eu graphs, I can see no time at which deaths in Germany were below the long-term average rate during 2020, and many times where they are far above it.
What happened was that people were overly careful - in all parts of life, e.g. meeting people, wearing masks (less of a flu season = less deaths) and going to a doctor when sick - hospital s greatly increased their capacity and afaik Germany never had the dramatic situations where people couldn't get oxygen or staff was at the edge of quitting.