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Re:How long can a democracy maintain emergency limits and st... by aww_dang on Thursday September 02, 2021 @01:49PM (#28395129)
I'm not confident in western numbers either. There's a definite conflict of interest when governments are tasked with collecting data which rationalizes their use of emergency powers.
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Re:How long can a democracy maintain emergency limits and st... by iammisc on Friday September 03, 2021 @12:00AM (#28400291)
Right new York under Cuomo, widely hailed as a star governor with regards to covid, misreported up to 12000 deaths, which only came to light officially when the lieutenant governor took over.
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Re:How long can a democracy maintain emergency limits and st... by edmundsauto on Thursday September 02, 2021 @08:43PM (#28399233)
There are government-independent studies that roughly reflect similar numbers. CMU's Delphi team has an interesting survey - no media involvement needed, they offer an API.
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Re:How long can a democracy maintain emergency limits and st... by water8 on Friday September 03, 2021 @04:19AM (#28401668)
Studies are worthless if the data reporting by the source (hospitals) was inaccurate. We have strong reason to believe bias since emergency funds were allocated to places with the highest covid count
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Re:How long can a democracy maintain emergency limits and st... by edmundsauto on Saturday September 04, 2021 @05:14PM (#28419285)
> emergency funds were allocated to places with the highest covid count

Wouldn't this be how we would expect things to work? Places with more infections need more resources. It seems to me like the "strong reason to believe bias" is the exact same evidence as "this is how I would expect it to work in absence of bias".

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