Urgent appeal to get flu jab after virus killed more than Covid last winter

Re:Urgent appeal to get flu jab after virus killed more than... by pfannkuchen on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @05:35PM (#37757882)

Is the output of your work used to inform the public on a health danger which determines their level of fear and support or opposition to response measures?

Obviously something like this is reasonable in some cases. Just because it is reasonable in some cases does not mean it is reasonable in every case.

Compromises should not be misleading, let alone extremely misleading.

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Re:Urgent appeal to get flu jab after virus killed more than... by thebruce87m on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @05:55PM (#37758132)

So what was the alternative? Hide the measurement? Not measure at all? What specifically would you have done differently?

Once the excess mortality data came along it confirmed people lots more people were dying than normal, and therefore of covid, so how is it misleading? If anything saying with covid is the opposite of misleading since you are specifying the caveat of the measurement up front?

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