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It's like saying that Saint Lucia has over 10 Nobel Prize laureates per million population but then finding out that the country has a population of 180,000 and that works out to 2 laureates in the country.

I believe, at least in New York, people are being counted as covid-19 deaths if they were in contact with someone who was diagnosed. They can count as a covid-19 death without ever being tested for it.

The number of deaths may be off but that is likely to be dwarfed by the much higher number of total cases that haven't been confirmed. Between this study, the LA study, and the Santa Clara study there could be 10-80x as many cases. That is more significant that the death count being off by a couple percent when it comes to determining the fatality rate.

There are a lot of people not going to hospitals either because elective procedures were canceled or they fear getting corona virus. These will contribute to excess deaths but not be caused by coronavirus.

From their Manifesto[1]:

While the endowment model of the Permanent Legacy Foundation is designed to keep yourmaterials into perpetuity, it is not designed to be a high-traffic heavy-bandwidth hosting site.With the exception of approved nonprofit partners, we do not allow references of embedded15Permanent Legacy Foundation Manifesto materials on external sites for, and we must reserve the right to throttle or block abusive traffic

[1] https://www.permanent.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Permane...

They aren't building anything. They are storing data to S3, B2, and Internet Archive [1]. The fact that they are storing to multiple providers means that the costs should be higher than yourself just storing on one provider. That is before taking into consideration that the dividends on the trust need to meet the cost. The return on $10 needs to cover the costs of storing in S3 and B2.

https://www.permanent.org/digital-archives/maintaining-acces...