• cry@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    A fair percentage of them are? Certainly higher percentage than people that are vaccinated.

    There are several other factors at work here, and I get that you are responding to a mock question with a mock answer.

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        1 year ago

        Tell that to countries like Peru and Mexico who had little vaccination and a mortality rate of nearly 5%. Compared to the countries who had the highest vaccination rate with mortality of less than .05%

        So… over 100 times more?

        USA and CA had 1.1% so 5 times more… (erm that makes no sense, but you get what i mean. I need coffee)

        EDIT: my main source https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality

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          Those numbers aren’t accurate. They didn’t have the same insane drive to try to find and record every case, so the death percentage is artificially inflated

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            1 year ago

            Excess death statistics don’t lie, it’s extremely difficult to hide trends in total deaths.

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              Exactly. So deaths are drastically overcounted, as opposed to “confirmed cases”. Which is why the combination of the two leads to drastically overstating the death rate.

              Now you’re getting it!