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A university president makes a case against cowardice

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450 points pseudolus | 1 comments | 03 Apr 25 12:29 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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CaptWillard[dead post] ◴[03 Apr 25 13:26 UTC] No.43569290[source]▶
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sixothree ◴[03 Apr 25 13:31 UTC] No.43569352[source]▶
Are you referring to the most studied medicine in human history or the one that saved more lives than any other medicine in human history?
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CaptWillard ◴[03 Apr 25 13:46 UTC] No.43569571[source]▶
I'm referring to the medicine deployed against a pandemic whose death count is still entirely unknown.

How many people died because of COVID?

You don't know. No one knows.

Meanwhile, everyone who knows better pretends that the most fundamental data about the subject, on top of which all other data and decsions were built ... is garbage.

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rimunroe ◴[03 Apr 25 13:52 UTC] No.43569677[source]▶
Do you think the rough death toll of pandemics are fundamentally unknowable to some approximation? Do you think the massive increase in mortality during the pandemic was a coincidence?
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somenameforme ◴[03 Apr 25 14:43 UTC] No.43570450[source]▶
Interestingly, excess mortality levels continue to remain extremely high - around 10%. [1]

[1] - https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores...

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1. n4r9 ◴[03 Apr 25 14:57 UTC] No.43570715{3}[source]▶
Might some of that be due to long-term medical conditions (such as cancer or dementia) that were treated less effectively during the pandemic, but which didn't cause immediate loss of life?