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Re:The pandemic’s true death toll by nraynaud on Thursday September 02, 2021 @08:42PM (#28399219)
We are talking about statistics that a machine created here, not body bags. They trained a machine on a subset and generated the unknown values.
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Re:The pandemic’s true death toll by jmalicki on Friday September 03, 2021 @03:25AM (#28401349)
The machine is generating the counter-factual baseline, the body bags are very real and only counted.
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