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InGoodFaith2 t1_j5ckilb wrote

Reply to How Covid-19 vaccines succeeded in saving a million US lives, in charts by ILikeNeurons

Bullsht and anybody with a functioning brain can see that. You would’ve died if you didn’t eat chicken last week, my prediction model says you would’ve probably had a stomach ache & then hit by a truck. Good job on eating that chicken. Also, Miami will be under water by 2010. although you don’t fly or ride in planes, my model say you have a 5% chance of dying in a plane crash. By the year 2000 most people will have flying cars & if you are a Sagittarius, you will meet a tall blonde woman. If you didn’t take the mRNA shot, you’re probably dead. If you did take it, you probably would have died. We know because we made a model. This shot that doesn’t prevent transmission or sickness saved lives because my crystal ball says so. Proof? I’m a scientist payed by corrupt pharmaceutical corporations, or corrupt government, or corrupt media. So bullsht.

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VelcroSea t1_j5cgxsf wrote

Reply to comment by stiikkle in How Covid-19 vaccines succeeded in saving a million US lives, in charts by ILikeNeurons

Estimates based on a model vs actual numbers is a forecast or an estimate... a best guess scenario.

This date is guessing this us how many lives the shots might have saved.

I live a good forecast but estimating hiw many people didn't get killed is a bit of an odd thing to measure.

It's also interesting to me that all flu deaths were covid related for about 2 years.

Always verify and question the validity and methodology of the date collection.

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unhappymedium2 t1_j5cewak wrote

Reply to comment by coffeesharkpie in How Covid-19 vaccines succeeded in saving a million US lives, in charts by ILikeNeurons

Sure, but those methods often have to make assumptions about significant variables or bring together variables with wide tolerance bands. The resulting "estimates", therefore, have very low confidence and should really be taken with a grain of salt, but many people see it and seem to think our species has figured out how to predict the future.

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