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Originally posted by BushTelegraph1: ↑

https://elpais.com/sociedad/2020-04-08/espana-incapaz-de-contar-a-las-victimas-del-coronavirus.html
This article from El Pais today in Spain shows the excess of deaths (as compared with the same period last year). While it show some undercounting of coronavirus deaths, even in the province with the biggest number of deaths, the death rate per thousand was just over half of one per thousand. It's falling in Madrid now, new hospital admissions even faster. The virus has now done most of the damage it was ever going to do.

Yesterday, the same paper published estimates by health authorities that those who have been exposed ("infected" by ) to coronavirus in Madrid are about 40% of the population. This virus is not very lethal but spreads very quickly. The death and infection rates here, which are being repeated everywhere (except in the Chinese figures on which Western governments' policies seem to have been based), need to be reported and acted upon. What has gone wrong in some countries is underpreparation. Emergency facilities and hospitals needed to be constructed so that everyone was treated properly.
The Swedish model will turn out to be the most sensibleThe alternative, which is coming to Australia, is what's now happened in France and Germany: severe economic depression. The reaction to all these basic facts (worthy of Robespierre) is another side of what is going wrong in all this

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"This article from El Pais today in Spain shows the excess of deaths (as compared with the same period last year)"

Some death rates will be much lower than last year because of the lock-downs. For example deaths from traffic accidents will be way down. So even no change in overall rates indicates CV is killing a lot of people.
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