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Define 'excess death'.The concept of excess deaths goes back to the 1800's.
No, statistics was used to study cholera deaths. It was simple statistics that isolated cholera deaths to water supplies.It was used to study cholera deaths.
Define 'excess death'.I am only 51 years old, so definitely did not invent the term.
Define 'excess death'. A buzzword is not a number.I tend to use The Economist's excess deaths numbers.
Define 'excess death'.I believe they do a good job, but there are and will be many others studying excess deaths.
They are not conservative. Their numbers are random numbers.The Economist is a conservative British news magazine, and their numbers are for most of the countries.
Random numbers are not a methodology.I have no control over their methodology.
Define 'excess deaths'. Now you say it's some kind of 'method'.Excess deaths have been used to study all sorts of major events, from wars, to hurricanes, to recessions, to pandemics. Excess deaths is not a method unique to Covid.
Define 'excess death'.Excess deaths are a way of understanding the number of deaths,
No such buzzword in statistical math. Statistical math does not distort.but like all other statistics can distort if misused.
Argument from randU fallacy. Covid19 does not kill. Define 'excess death'. What is a 'negative death'? A birth?Taiwan has had 850 deaths attributed to Covid, but NEGATIVE 3,710 excess deaths.
So you are now locked in paradox. You say covid19 kills (it doesn't), then you are saying it causes people to survive (it doesn't).In effect, the Covid pandemic has caused more people to survive in Taiwan.
Define 'saving a life' concerning something that does not kill.The Taiwanese are taking precautions that are not just saving their lives from Covid, but also from colds and flus.
Argument from randU fallacy. Quoting made up numbers as data is a fallacy.The disease itself killed 850, and probably more,
Argument from randU fallacy. Speculations. There is no such thing as a 'net life saver'. Another buzzword.but the precautions related to the disease saved more than 4,000 lives making the pandemic a net life saver.
The economist is filled with meaningless buzzword like this. Define 'excess death'.