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Originally Posted by petegz28
All of the numbers are just starting to become mindnumbingling meaningless.
If we say x people have it you have a crowd scream it's because we aren't testing enough.
If we estimate the number of cases to be a lot more than what they have tested thus the death rate is really lower you have a crowd scream bullshit, you can't say that because ____
If we say the death number is X we have a crowd that scream we aren't counting all the people who "really" died from it.
We have dead people getting counted even though they may not have died from Covid-19
We have people being counted as having Covid-19 even though that haven't been tested because they show symptoms
We have test results being argued because someone said somewhere there are X number of false positives or false negatives
So basically it doesn't even matter what numbers you present anymore, some people are going to argue they aren't right for some reason or other
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For good reason, as all those things are likely true. The doesn't mean you can't follow trends in the data, and improve as you go along.
That doesn't make the numbers meaningless. We will never know the exact numbers, and that's OK