@AaarghZombies it's about exactly the same table that details the deaths by vaccination status and age from the UK.

There are some important caveats here, the claim says that he paid more this year, and it compares only to politicians. Musk bought Twitter this year and as far as I understand he sold a significant amount of Tesla stocks for this. So this year is probably an outlier for Musk in terms of taxes.

@Simone Every driver in Germany has at least 12 * 45 minutes of driving instruction by a professional driving instructor (this is the legal minimum, the typical time is probably double that) and has to pass a practical driving test (which is not entirely trivial to pass). So the minimum level of driving lessons is much higher in Germany than in the US as far as I understand the US system.

@Fizz The claim is about excess mortality, the graph shows total mortality. So if I understand it correctly what the blog post compares is the integral over the dotted grey line.

@quarague I intentionally didn't try to analyze this any further, but the excess mortality would obviously be extremely sensitive to changes in the baseline. I think simply looking at the graph puts the claims into context, if you read "1000% increase" you'd usually expect a very different graph.

Another potential source for the 12% claim is this blog post: soniaelijah.substack.com/p/…

I suspect the 12% are from reports about the efficacy of the vaccine against infection in children, and the 1% is the ARR (Absolute Risk Reduction) for the vaccine which will always be a much smaller number than the relative values. But in the end a question with this kind of vague claims will boil down to a generic "do the vaccines work" answer, which we already have. So I'm not entirely sure what to do with this question.

You really need to pick a specific claim from the article, otherwise there are too many different claims at once.