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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1375974)10/3/2022 6:39:37 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (2) of 1572105
 
>> Had we followed your advice, California would have become the leader, both per capita and in absolute terms, in COVID-19 deaths.

Ten, where is the science that establishes this? Hell, for all we know the climate had more to do with outcomes than anything else. In the 1918 pandemic, later research established that exposure to UVB in some locations correlated with reductions in disease).

For the longest time I believed per capita deaths or illness made a statement t about effective policy. But at the end of the day analysis of Covid data is about as devoid of the Scientific Method as anything I’ve seen.

I see no evidence that harsh lockdowns had anything to do with it. NY occupied the highest death count (along with NJ) for most of the pandemic. NY and NJ had the highest per capita deaths for most of the pandemic, did only a little better toward the end, yet maintained some of the most harsh lockdown rules in the country. Meanwhile, in Texas we had little in the way of mandates and performed only a little worse in terms of deaths yet ended only a quintile worse off than CA in the per capita death comparison.

I’m not sure any of it is meaningful. Maybe someone will run a lot of correlations some day and be able t9 make a case but what I see now is a lot of apophenia that continues to mislead a lot of people.

I don’t see NY as late to lockdowns. But where I live few masks were only used by force for many people.

I’m just not seeing how it helped but I can certainly see the economic damage and it is terrible.
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