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nonbel on March 14, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: 737 MAX crashes “linked” by satellite track data, ...

> "~80,000 people died from the disease"

This number sounds highly questionable to say the least: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/how-cdc-estimates.htm

With no way to compare it to a gold standard how could anyone know how accurate it is?

brokenmachine on March 15, 2019 [–]

The point is that it's a lot more people than a couple of plane crashes.

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