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by halfmatthalfcat 1856 days ago
The graphs are only as good as the data they are made from and there has been widespread manipulation (both political and just due to inept data collection) of the data. Just look at Florida firing one of their data scientists due to whistleblowing about bad numbers[1].

Also anecdotally, having lived in NYC through COVID, can confidently state that without the city going on lockdown (and it was by all means a strict lockdown), hundreds of thousands would have died.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-data-scientist-...