free_glamorgan

Yet most people have caught Covid anyway.

I'm aware of that, which is why I made the point that it would only bring India's Covid death rate to around the same as the US and other Western countries. It is also of no help to the discussion around my original point, which is the idea that a very large number of people don't personally know anyone who died unexpectedly of Covid.

The official statistics on Covid deaths in India showed a mortality rate 1/10th that of the US. There would need to be more than an order of magnitude error in reporting for their death rate to exceed that of the US.

FWIW, calling it the "Indian variant" is apparently not ok. Do you mean Delta?

The state of Rotten Tomatoes turned out to be a very accurate bellwether for the state of the (US-centric) movie industry in general. It really is a shame what happened to one of the little bastions of human-centric freedom of expression and opinion.

Covid seems to be, physically and emotionally, a primarily Western disease. And as bad as the fallout has been where I live, it seems to have been particularly damaging in the US (on both of those counts).

Statistically, a social circle comprised of first world, Western, overweight and inactive and generally older folk should have the most susceptibility to death from Covid.

I have a working hypothesis that a very large number of people don't personally know anyone who has died of Covid, except maybe for an elderly relative and "they were getting on a bit anyway". It's true of me and anyone else I've had this conversation with.

>.... How!?

Everywhere else has had the sense to create smaller local ruling bodies.

They sure are. They are selling budget, cobbled-together hardware that "supports FOSS", when in reality you are the one providing that support.

It's probably coming for us all. The increasingly saturated smartphone market will not provide the sales that manufacturers need to maintain the current economies of scale. That is, unless they perfect the art of phones engineered for a very particular lifetime.

>This lancet paper represents a pretty good consensus belief

The paper represents an effort to support a particular hypothesis using curve-fitting. The Bible represents a "pretty good consensus belief".

Not the entire truth - they also have a £700 million equal pay settlement to pay out.

I've never heard "traige" used with such negative connotations! FWIW, the term used by the NHS is "QALYS", or "Quality-adjusted life year". Yes, these calculations are made at all levels of health care.

Wakanda - "It's ok if we do it".