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Re:Evaluation of science advice during the Covid-19 pandemic... by refurb on Saturday March 26, 2022 @08:29AM (#30811288)
You act like excess deaths is an easy analysis, but deaths vary significantly year or year. What you baseline are makes a big difference.

And considering we’re not even through the epidemic it seems like it’s a bit early to call winners and losers.

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Re:Evaluation of science advice during the Covid-19 pandemic... by jmull on Saturday March 26, 2022 @09:03AM (#30811470)
Nonsense. There are various reasonable ways to calculate a baseline and they all show large surges over the covid period (which correspond to reported covid deaths, btw).

Also, there are no winners, what are you even talking about?

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Re:Evaluation of science advice during the Covid-19 pandemic... by refurb on Saturday March 26, 2022 @11:32AM (#30812719)
Do you average deaths over the past 5 years? Or 10 years? How do you correct for population growth? How about age distribution? What if you had a flu pandemic and deaths were 5% higher 3 years? Correct for that or not?
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