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A long, patient, rational and undramatic exploration of many studies, cogently presented - or, at least, that's how it struck me. I was particularly interested to see it address what I increasingly regard as the elephant in the room:

> Covid-19 death rates that are based upon reported or confirmed infections grossly undercount the number of people with the disease. This, in turn, makes the death rate seem substantially higher than reality.

It is to be hoped that we will achieve mass testing of significant percentages of populations to show those infected, symptomatic or not, and also those recovered but who never exhibited or suspected infection.

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I'm not sure I agree. The article is very opinionated on how to trivialize and downplay the death wave created by the covid19 outbreak.

Comparing covid19 deaths with car accident fatalities does nothing to address the fact that close to a thousand patients are dying daily on countries like Italy or Spain who otherwise would not die.

Trying to water down death rates of older people by reporting deaths as "loss of potential life" is also highly questionable.

It's also mind boggling how they casually shove the infuriating "sure people die but the economy" talking point under the guise of "all facts".

I understand that people are desperate for good news, but twisting numbers and statistics to provide a false sense of relief is something that solves nothing nor helps anyone.

Just to put into perspective the article's bullshit comparison between covid19 deaths and car accident fatalities, in Spain the total car fatalities in 2018 were 1806 deaths.

Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/438008/number-of-road-de...

That's currently 2 days worth of covid19 deaths in Spain.

In this last couple of weeks alone, more people died of covid19 in Spain than by car accidents in the last decade.

Justfacts.com is spreading misinformation.

I appreciate the points that you make, but would also point out that the article does not make reference to car accidents, but to accidental death. This would include overdoses (drug/alcohol), poisoning, falls, drowning, choking etc.