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Nope wrong again. The preliminary numbers were not used to dictate lockdowns, though im sure the media presented them and might have made it seem that way.
The lockdowns were initially agreed upon do to overcapacity of ICUs and a lack of ventilators going around.
Now it is true that you can use preliminary numbers to infer things, but it doesnt mean you count them as actual covid deaths. What we look at is what % of people who get the vaccine die within 14 days (even if it isnt because of the vaccine). If the virus is causing deaths, even if its just a fraction of those in the preliminary numbers, then we would see a statistical rise in those numbers, similarly we can apply the same logic to vaccines.
So while they dont represent the count of deaths they can certainly be used to infer a relative increase or decrease in death **if** taken relative to itself at an earlier time before some event being tested for.
