AeronMelon@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoTIL roughly 200 people still die each month from COVID worldwide.data.who.intexternal-linkmessage-square168linkfedilinkarrow-up1678arrow-down110file-text
arrow-up1668arrow-down1external-linkTIL roughly 200 people still die each month from COVID worldwide.data.who.intAeronMelon@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square168linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squaregogonan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·13 hours agoGotta love when people try to fix someone’s bad math by fucking up their own
minus-squareunderisk@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 hours agoI fucked up a word, rhe math is correct for the unit in the headline and I corrected it so so fast my comment doesn’t even have an edit disclaimer. Calm down.
minus-squaregogonan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·13 hours agoNo, 200 x 12 is 2400, or 2.4K annually (if we don’t factor in 90% of deaths and calculate it as 180 x 12). You’re off by a factor of 10. Covid deaths are 60% as common as drowning using that math, not 600%.
minus-squareunderisk@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·13 hours agoOh shit youre absolutely right. Well fuck me then.
Gotta love when people try to fix someone’s bad math by fucking up their own
I fucked up a word, rhe math is correct for the unit in the headline and I corrected it so so fast my comment doesn’t even have an edit disclaimer.
Calm down.
No, 200 x 12 is 2400, or 2.4K annually (if we don’t factor in 90% of deaths and calculate it as 180 x 12). You’re off by a factor of 10. Covid deaths are 60% as common as drowning using that math, not 600%.
Oh shit youre absolutely right. Well fuck me then.