Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[SvennoJ]

numberwang said:

curl-6 said:

Consider yourself lucky. More so than the over 3 million people currently suffering through it, or the more than 400,000 and counting who've died. Or the families of those 400,000.

Doubtful number considering that anyone who dies with the coronavirus (regardless of symptoms) is counted as having died from it. I will take more time to analyze total death numbers (many of them caused by the lockdowns) compared to previous years to get a better estimation of "surplus death".

How many deaths do you think are caused by the lock downs?
Does it matter btw, lock downs are preventing many more deaths. The difference in timing between lock downs demonstrates how exponentially worse it gets.
In the end the lock downs are because of covid19, so any deaths because of lock downs are an indirect result of covid19.

If anything the reported deaths are way too low
https://www.ft.com/content/a26fbf7e-48f8-11ea-aeb3-955839e06441