The Covid-19 pandemic is worse than official figures show
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#3Meanwhile, the much maligned Sweden is experiencing no uptick in deaths: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/, and US death counts are dropping as well.
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#4For some context at 1M deaths so far, and pessimistically if we end 2020 with 1.5M global deaths, this would be https://ourworldindata.org/births-and-deaths), and with most deaths being of the elderly.
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#5Meanwhile, the much maligned Sweden is experiencing no uptick in deaths: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/ , and US death counts are dropping as well.
I see that sweden's new deaths have gone down (but their overall deaths are much worse than other scandinavian countries), but the US graphs shows no slowing of the death rate that I can tell.
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#6Meanwhile, the much maligned Sweden is experiencing no uptick in deaths: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/ , and US death counts are dropping as well.
I see that sweden's new deaths have gone down (but their overall deaths are much worse than other scandinavian countries), but the US graphs shows no slowing of the death rate that I can tell.
You need help from an optometrist then. There are two clear downward trends, one starting in late April, and one starting in late July.
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#7For some context at 1M deaths so far, and pessimistically if we end 2020 with 1.5M global deaths, this would be https://ourworldindata.org/births-and-deaths ), and with most deaths being of the elderly.
Some more context around 3% of the world population died in World War 2 which was over 6 years.
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#8For some context at 1M deaths so far, and pessimistically if we end 2020 with 1.5M global deaths, this would be https://ourworldindata.org/births-and-deaths ), and with most deaths being of the elderly.
Some more context around 3% of the world population died in World War 2 which was over 6 years.
I don't think you are talking about the same number. Original mentioned that the number of deaths in 2020 would be 3% more than the number of deaths in 2019, not that 3% of the population had died. That would be 240 Million people!
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#9This seems to assume all of the excess deaths are directly attributable to Covid-19, but shouldn't we consider the possibility that our reaction to Covid-19 could also play a role, things like: generally increased levels of stress, suicide rate, elderly more depressed due to no in-person visitors, less exercise?
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some more context around 3% of the world population died in World War 2 which was over 6 years.
I don't think you are talking about the same number. Original mentioned that the number of deaths in 2020 would be 3% more than the number of deaths in 2019, not that 3% of the population had died. That would be 240 Million people!
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