Electile Dysfunction (Current students plz look!)

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Oh, yes, please do more reading about expected deaths. It's fascinating.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail...-countries

Ok so forget all the other bullshit for a minute, I just got back to a PC and I'm reading this very cool dive...I mean you could use this data to plot the "flatness" of "the curve" could you not? Since "dying from the 'rona" would be a novel addition to the data set, yes?

They have deaths compared to excess deaths farther down the page. What's difficult to glean is whether those excess deaths were a result of coronavirus or our response to coronavirus. Regardless, you can see there's a correlation between early and aggressive lockdowns in places like France and Portugal. These differences are even more stark in central and northern European countries, where Sweden didn't do shit but Germany went hardcore. There also appears to be a greater disparity between reported deaths and expected deaths for lesser developed countries in Latin America; presumably because their testing or medical infrastructure has a hard time identifying things specifically related to COVID.