That's such a wild way of doing the numbers. A 5% increase in deaths is okay because there have been 181% increase in cases. As long as we get as many people as we can sick, we can accept higher and higher amounts of death. Weird how much sense that makes in the light of the recent CDC decision and the whole pandemic response since day 1. It's almost like they realize that.
And a lower death rate doesn't even necessarily imply less virulence! If the vax mostly stops delta from giving someone covid, but isn't as effective in stopping omicron (but still prevents major illness), you could have two variants with the same virulence but in this case omicron "looks better" since the death rate is lower but inherent virulence is the same.
There was a slight dip in deaths before the peak of deaths last holiday season too, but lots of blue checks on Twitter are hanging onto that tidbit. I know pundits are dumb as hell, but it's funny that they keep falling for the exact same fallacies during this pandemic repeatedly.
That's such a wild way of doing the numbers. A 5% increase in deaths is okay because there have been 181% increase in cases. As long as we get as many people as we can sick, we can accept higher and higher amounts of death. Weird how much sense that makes in the light of the recent CDC decision and the whole pandemic response since day 1. It's almost like they realize that.
And a lower death rate doesn't even necessarily imply less virulence! If the vax mostly stops delta from giving someone covid, but isn't as effective in stopping omicron (but still prevents major illness), you could have two variants with the same virulence but in this case omicron "looks better" since the death rate is lower but inherent virulence is the same.
the deaths decreased by 5% (but yea this is still bullshit because the hospitalizations/deaths come later)
There was a slight dip in deaths before the peak of deaths last holiday season too, but lots of blue checks on Twitter are hanging onto that tidbit. I know pundits are dumb as hell, but it's funny that they keep falling for the exact same fallacies during this pandemic repeatedly.
They want it to be over, an enviable position.
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