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Originally Posted by Aloha1
I disagree. The CDC numbers are their best guess but they acknowledge they could be higher or lower, hence the range. Bottom line, I guess, is we have no way of knowing EXACTLY how many have died from the flu over the last few years, but we are "absolutely certain" how many have died from Covid. Food for thought.
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"We" aren't "absolutely certain" but I believe the CDC numbers that show more than 500,000 excess deaths in 2020. Lacking any other reasonable explanation, these excess deaths must be due to Covid. While the number of flu deaths in 2018 was in the range 46,000 to 95,000, there were ten times as many Covid-related deaths in 2020.
All deaths matter and it would be nice to reduce the number of any deaths but a new condition that causes one half million deaths in a single year (and additional deaths into the next) is worth special attention.
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Why do people insist on making claims without looking them up first, do they really think no one will check? Proof by emphatic assertion rarely works.
Confirmation bias is real; I can find any number of articles that say so.
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