covid-19-excess-deaths-tracker VS OpenRA

The economist has been tracking this for a while: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-...

The claims about motorcycle deaths counting as covid deaths were what the deniers were spreading at the time.

We now look back at excess mortality to know how many extra people died: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-...

The economist has a detailed breakdown that might be easier to follow

Old/general tracker across several countries 2021: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-tracker

Average of 16 years of life lost to covid: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-83040-3 Drop in life expectancy of nearly 2 years in the US: https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n1343 Countries with big outbreaks all have significantly increased mortality: https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/excess-mortality-across-countries-in-2020/ and https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-tracker US went from 2.85 million deaths to 3.35million deaths in one year: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7014e1.htm US has 5̶4̶0̶k̶+̶ ̶6̶3̶0̶k̶+̶ ̶7̶0̶0̶k̶+̶ 760k+ covid deaths with covid listed as the underlying cause on death certificates 90%+ of the time: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/mortality-overview.htm Over 140,000 children have lost a caregiver due to covid19 in the US, 5+ million globally https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)01253-8/fulltext

Might it be possible, just maybe, that the figures reported from other areas of the world are not quite accurate- either from lack of resources or willful manipulation of data? Here's an article from that renowned liberal bastion 'The Economist' about excess mortality rates worldwide: Excess mortality

Recently, my friends and I recreated our old LAN parties. Went up to a cabin in the woods, brought some cheap network switches, and had everyone install OpenRA (https://www.openra.net/, open red alert), and had a blast, even with everyone on laptops (mac/win). You can still do this in 2024 and it's worth it!

After the movies, I wanted to experience Dune 2 again (the pirate sites have it, along with patches to make it playable on modern OSes or Crossover). It was arguably the first mass-market real-time strategy game. There's also OpenRA for C&C, Red Alert, and Dune 2K: https://www.openra.net/

I understand Square is re-making FF7 in a multi-part release over several years (not sure why it takes so long)? https://ffvii-remake-intergrade.square-enix-games.com/en-us/ Once it's all out, I might play through that again just for nostalgia's sake (and for the soundtrack, of course! Twenty years later, I still have Aeris's Theme stuck in my head from time to time)

Obligatory reminder:Red Alert,Command & Conquer, Dune 2000, Rebuilt for the Modern Era.

https://www.openra.net/

I recently found an open source version that has been fun (https://www.openra.net/).

You can import those from ISOs: https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/wiki/Game-Content but the campaign is not complete afaik as it needs to be re-built in OpenRA: https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/issues/4989 (I think this is the related ticket)

Alternatively OpenRA has a bunch of C&C inspired mods: https://www.openra.net I think this way is the easiest way to get a C&C like experience on a M1 Mac right now.

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