Except this is a blatant misrepresentation. The CDC data shows that the covid associated death rate has dropped "normal", but all cause mortality rates are still above normal worldwide.
This kind of smacks of the skewing of the numbers where we saw influenza deaths dropped to nothing at the same time we saw covid deaths rise. The real problem is this is propagandizing these numbers because the real number that needs to be looked at is all cause mortality rate and that is still on average 9% above normal across all nations.
The fact that this is not being investigated by either the CDC or the world health organization is a travesty that's pointing out the politicalization of this.
Just a few posts later on hacker News you can see the headline that China deletes covid-19 death data.
There is also the issue that people have been desperately ignoring since the pandemic started... death isn't the only bad outcome of a Covid infection. I have a friend who was healthy, active, not obese, no existing conditions; she contracted a nasty case of Covid and she's never been the same. She isn't dead, she isn't likely to die any time soon, but her quality of life has taken a major hit.
I was just talking to my wife -- we're going to feel the echoes of this for a very, very long time, and I fully expect our grandchildren to ask us what in the world was going on.
> > we're going to feel the echoes of this for a very, very long time, and I fully expect our grandchildren to ask us what in the world was going on.
Did you ask your gramps about the '57 flu? And the '69 flu? Nope you asked them about Woodstock and the Moon Landing.
Finding the differences...if your grandchildren are a tiny bit inquisitive they'd ask why did your (our) generation put the world on hold for 2 years while some decades earlier we went on as business as usual to work and have fun and accomplish great things both in the realm of work and fun.
But yeah, staying inside for a few weeks then going out but wearing masks or having to go to work or school on Zoom isn’t going to sound as Earth shattering as fascists almost taking the world by force.
you're right, i also feel this had modified my whole being. unfortunately there are many people still that object to calling the end of the pandemic, for reasons that escape me.
Governments media and health authorities radicalized people and then abandoned them afterwards. There is no "back to normal" messaging I've seen or interventions for people who were largely driven crazy by all the hype different agencies were pushing out. A responsible society would push people to act normal again, but we instead keep coddling crazies and promoting continued victimhood or special treatment for people that seek attention.
This kind of smacks of the skewing of the numbers where we saw influenza deaths dropped to nothing at the same time we saw covid deaths rise. The real problem is this is propagandizing these numbers because the real number that needs to be looked at is all cause mortality rate and that is still on average 9% above normal across all nations.
The fact that this is not being investigated by either the CDC or the world health organization is a travesty that's pointing out the politicalization of this.
Just a few posts later on hacker News you can see the headline that China deletes covid-19 death data.