15M people have died in the pandemic, WHO says
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This is merely whitewashing the fact that Covid isn't dangerous for most people meanwhile tons of countries had extremely heavy-handed responses.
For example: https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2020/10/07/c...
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/26/business/global-poverty-covid...
https://www.cepal.org/en/pressreleases/extreme-poverty-regio...
https://reliefweb.int/report/world/first-crisis-then-catastr...
The percentages to whom at what age were pretty clear and not whitewashed from the very beginning, but you whitewashing the fact that still the 15M number would have been much higher without your complained heavy-handed responses? So easy to make your statement now in the aftermath, but it is even still wrong?
And what proof do you have of that? Covid still spread like wildfire even with the heavy-handed responses. Hence why most western countries vaccinated then just gave up once Omicron hit. Covid's still here, the numbers are still higher than in early waves, yet restrictions are gone in most countries and life goes on.
It's not hard to believe that 11M of the 15M number was caused by 100M+ being added to those in extreme poverty, plus the effects on those who were already that poor. Versus thinking actual Covid deaths were undercounted by 3.5X...