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This. And like another commenter pointed out, it's not unique to one side or the other. Anyone who defines their entire existence in this left/right dichotomy is suffering from media-induced mental illness.
How are these two things causally connected in your mind?
Here is the CDC's policy:
> In cases where a definite diagnosis of COVID–19 cannot be made, but it is suspected or likely (e.g., the circumstances are compelling within a reasonable degree of certainty), it is acceptable to report COVID–19 on a death certificate as “probable” or “presumed.”
There is also a lack of consistency between how states count deaths: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/which-deaths-c...
Maybe this is a spurious correlation too, but I'd bet money that the May 26th George Floyd protests had something to do with that big spike you see ramping up May 31 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests.
> Compared to pre-pandemic, there was an overall decrease in risk of anxiety, and an increase in wellbeing but no large change in risk of depression
https://sphr.nihr.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Young-Peo...
Also, for all of the extremely attentive readers like pwinnski out there, I'm sure they've already come across research on increased rates of suicide due to economic despair https://wellbeingtrust.org/areas-of-focus/policy-and-advocac...
https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/how-llcs-are-taxed-2...
It doesn't make sense to analyse "the market" as a monolith--not that there was much of that in the article anyhow. Yes, there are winners, which has led to a net-postive macro trend but there are losers which have crashed as well.
The interesting question is what causes some companies to generate revenues while others fail.
> We don't have that for viral presence tests, unless you believe the god awful seroprevalence tests.
https://www.livescience.com/covid19-coronavirus-tests-false-...
And I suppose all of the 2+ dozen studies done are completely inaccurate as well? List below includes the revised study from Ioannidis. Your criticisms are from a preprint.
May 4: 370 workers test positive in Missouri. None had symptoms.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/04/us/triumph-foods-outbreak-mis...
May 1: revised Santa Clara study: 2.8% of the population had antibodies. Study came out on April 14.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v...
May 1: Dutch Royal Institute of Health 13884 healthcare workers test positive in the Netherlands. 9 have died. 0.06% CFR among healthcare workers 3% hospitalization rate 6/9 underlying conditions 9/9 above 45
https://www.rivm.nl/documenten/covid-19-en-zorgmedewerkers-3...
May 1: 15.5% seroprevalence in German Community. 0.36% IFR
https://www.ukbonn.de/C12582D3002FD21D/vwLookupDownloads/Str...
April 30: partial results give 61% of population infected in Bergamo
https://bergamo.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/20_aprile_30/cor...
April 27: 36% infected in homeless shelters
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2765378?gu...
April 27: Governor of NY claims their study indicate 24.7% on the island. Up to 2.7m people in nyc had covid : https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/cuomo-outlines-reopeni...
April 26: 96% symptom free out of 3300 positive https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-prison...
April 26: 17,000 healthcare workers tested positive, 60 dead in Italy
https://www.epicentro.iss.it/coronavirus/bollettino/Bolletti...
April 26: Seroprevalence in Kobe Japan 300x to 800x higher then expected
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.26.20079822v...
April 26: 25% of seroprevalence in Iran, 0.08 to 0.12% IFR. 518k to 777k infected
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.26.20079244v...
April 24: between 123k and 221k cases in Miami-Dade
https://www.miamidade.gov/releases/2020-04-24-sample-testing...
April 24: Denmark 1.7% seroprevalence 0.082% death rate among 17-70 real-time screening / antibodies test
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.24.20075291v...
April 23: governor of ny tweets that 13.9% of the state could have virus https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo/status/1253352837255438338
April 22: Sweden health official claims 20% of Stockholm could be infected, weeks away from herd immunity
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/22/no-lockdown-in-sweden-but-st...
April 22: LA County could have between 223k and 442k cases. Mortality between 0.1% and 0.3%
http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/phcommon/public/media/media...
April 22: 5.5% of residents could be positive in Geneva county
https://www.hug-ge.ch/medias/communique-presse/seroprevalenc...
April 22: 20% of Stockholm infected, heard immunity weeks away
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/22/no-lockdown-in-sweden-but-st...
April 20: Up to 10% of the people in Wuhan developed antibodies. 1.2M
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmv.25904
April 19: 49% of the population of Orties developed antibodies. About 50x official stats.
https://www.stol.it/artikel/chronik/flaechendeckende-tests-i...
April 17: 32% of the residents tested for antibodies in Chelsea Massasuchets could have had Covid
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/17/business/nearly-third...
April 16: 3% of blood donors have antibodies in Netherlands
https://nltimes.nl/2020/04/16/3-dutch-blood-donors-covid-19-...
April 15: 50% homeless test positive in a Boston Shelter
https://www.boston25news.com/news/cdc-reviewing-stunning-uni...
April 15: Coronavirus probably dozens of times more common then official stats
https://thl.fi/en/web/thlfi-en/-/number-of-people-with-coron...
There are similar studies and similar findings in both the US and Europe.
tl;dr The virus is much less lethal for the average person than models predicted before we had more data.
It's intriguing to think about how this might intersect with the recently departed Jeffery: https://www.mintpressnews.com/mega-group-maxwells-mossad-spy...
For example: https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal...
> Open source projects can also express their funding models directly from their repositories. When .github/FUNDING.yml is added to a project’s master branch, a new “Sponsor” button will appear at the top of the repository. Clicking the button opens a natively rendered view of the funding models listed in that file.
> The YAML format is flexible, so a project’s maintainers and contributors can decide how they want to fund the project on their own terms. They can showcase any (or all!) of the following: the GitHub Sponsors profiles of the developers who contribute to the project; a list of popular funding models including Open Collective, Community Bridge, Tidelift, Ko-fi, and Patreon; and custom links to alternative funding models.
From https://github.blog/2019-05-23-announcing-github-sponsors-a-....
https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-019-0043-0