I had a rough time being isolated for several months on end, especially near the end where I was possibly a hair away from a legitimate nervous breakdown. Even though things have been largely "back to normal" for me since mid-late April, I feel like the effects are still lingering and that I get anxious/depressed more easily than I did before.

        • YouKnowIt [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Pretty much, flu like symptoms and long term effects, all that jazz. They can estimate it using previous years as a baseline, calling it excess mortality. Here's and article with numbers, even the CDC has an article up about it but they used like deaths per 100,000 instead of totals I think

        • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Yeah, bit of everything. Florida both deliberately undercounted and didn't bother checking for cases. Lots of places we wouldn't really have thought about would that as well. I just know about florida because they arrested a state IT person for whistle blowing.

          I have seen cases where people died of like, copd, where they wouldn't have died if they didn't catch covid. So yeah, who knows how to properly count that in math.

          And then I know of two instances of suiside from people who had othwrwiae been managing before shit got bad. So who knows how revalant or weighted for the data stuff like that is.

          So it kinda is a bit just trust me bro. Also also just it being way to hard to form a proper methodology for counting the world falling appart.