@Simon_TheZealot @Broccolidwarf@guydej1@CarlaHSands The tax is even more than 100% - and still students buy cars. Students get ca 1000 USD per month in government support, thats how poor we are. Ah, and college and universities are free. Like health insurance, free as well. We look at US as a development country. They lie to you.
@allenjs @edburmila @CarlaHSands Nope. Thats not the point. Denmark is a tiny country where public transportation works. US is a huge country where public transportation is a joke, many states dont do pavements (tennessee anyone?) and. sorry, but dont really “get” bicycles. Also, DK has free education ;-)
@mjesper6599@DrEricDing I am a strong supporter of restrictions and vaccinations to limit pandemic consequences. There are indeed many unknowns especially w.r.t. long covid (which we dont know much about). I am on the "lets be careful" team. But Eric here creates a story based on cherry-picking data.
@DrEricDing ... and sorry for the sarcastic tone in my comment, not ok. I just read a few tens of your somewhat questionable statements, and got irritated. Lets keep cool and talk about data, and what they support. What do they support?
@DrEricDing Everything is alarmingly normal here in Denmark, finally, only thing that is crazy is reading about how data is cherry-picked, distorted and weaponised by clueless foreign press and SoMe epidemiologists. DK has 32 covid patients in intensive care! What are your numbers?
@sneermark@SSTSundhed This is how it looks when a population agrees to being vaccinated. I no longer now a single person who is seriously ill from Covid. How about you? Greetings from Denmark.
@MichaelSmith2nd@joachimcb@M_B_Petersen@paulkrugman What families? I no longer know anyone who is seriously ill from Covid. You dont live here. I am strong supporter of vaccinations and restrictions, and we will suit up again when needed, as will probably happen. Please don't shape our data into your bullets. Disrespectful.
@MichaelSmith2nd@M_B_Petersen@paulkrugman This is the plot you didn't show. Unlike the Delta variant (which was scary) I no longer know anyone who is seriously ill from Covid. It may change depending on future variants - but it is objectively *false* to state that Covid causes deaths to surge in DK right now.
@paulkrugman We have below average mortality (for the season), exceptionally few people in ICU (only 7 per million). Here is the plot that you did not show from the same data site, from today. In case you didn't see it :) ... stop misusing your position and cherry picking our data, thank you.
@DrEricDing DK here: yes, they lifted the restrictions because (1) omicron and (2) strong vaccination protection in DK. Right on track with scientist expert group strategy Dec 2021 (https://t.co/zFILrsixZk) . Earlier, PM was called dictator and nazi for shutting down society-and now this :)
@DrEricDing First off: yes, its a risky stance, and it could have gone wrong. I think you mean well, and I agree that this is not over soon. But your data - where are the excess deaths you are talking about? They are even below the seasonal average. https://t.co/9Gbj40Tv5J
@DrEricDing Prof. Feigl-Ding. I see that you like me are a scientist, and you unlike me, are an expert in epidemiology. This is ICU per million. Let me know what you think about how its going in Denmark, scientist to scientist. Source: Our World in Data.
@DrEricDing News from Denmark here: *our* death numbers include many deaths from other causes, where the patients happened to have Covid as well (because many have it). So yes: many have omicron, and no: we are not dying from it, no excess mortality. Don't twist data to fit your agenda pls.
@david8hughes The lesson is: you can never outweird conspiracy theorists without them assimilating your nonsense and use it to start a new conspiracy theory. Its like no matter how high you raise the stakes in a Casino, they always have way more money than you do - you can never win, only walk