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re: Big Ten discussing start of college football season on week of Thanksgiving
Posted on 8/28/20 at 2:24 pm to rockiee
Posted on 8/28/20 at 2:24 pm to rockiee
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Not sure when originally written but the part I linked was updated for today
That's not clear. I guess my question would be was the entire article read through and updated again, or just a small fact here and there? No way of knowing, but you would THINK the whole thing was updated to current knowledge.
One thing I noticed, though about their statistics for the flu and covid is this:
COVID-19: There have been approximately 832,419 deaths reported worldwide. In the U.S, 180,857 people have died of COVID-19, as of August 28, 2020.*
Flu: The World Health Organization estimates that 290,000 to 650,000 people die of flu-related causes every year worldwide.
When you consider that the flu generally has it's heyday over a period of 4 months, and the Coronavirus has been around for 6 or so, the numbers are startlingly similar. take 2 months of Covid deaths away from the statistics and the numbers change dramatically.
It never ceases to amaze me how so much contradictory information gets released on an almost daily basis.
I have heard:
Wear masks
Masks can be harmful to the wearer over a period of time
Masks do not protect the wearer, only from spreading covid
You only need to wear masks if you are caring for someone with covid
That is just a small snapshot of stuff I have heard in the last month or two by various "medical professionals".
It is getting harder and harder to know what to believe and what to disregard.
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Posted on 8/28/20 at 2:41 pm to DawgsLife
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When you consider that the flu generally has it's heyday over a period of 4 months,
That might be true but the doctors chose to go with 6 months instead so I'm going to trust them for this study. But even if you did what you suggested and used the average for the flu death estimates, covid deaths would still be higher
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It is getting harder and harder to know what to believe and what to disregard.
I don't think so, you just need to take the majority of the studies. You can also find some outlier studies that are not the majority. You can do that with masks and get some easy answers regarding them. The CDC did frick up their messaging regarding masks at the start which I won't deny was very bad.
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