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[–] UFODivebomb@programming.dev 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Observation selection bias is an easy one the GOP likes to take advantage of. Eg: not testing for covid to show covid went down.

Also: drone strike civilian casualties.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 42 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not testing for covid to show it went down is the current strategy of the Biden admin

[–] UFODivebomb@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Lol. Look at this galaxy brain equivicating there start of a pandemic with an endemic with vaccine.

I mean, obviously the covid hospital occupancy rates would be identical if the actual case rate was the same.

Oh wait...

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-hospitalizations

What's that? Less then 10k vs over 140k? Definitely the exact same situation! /s

Don't trip over yourself making excuses now

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Hospital rates are down because we killed a lot of people and the rest aren't being recorded as covid.

I know people who very recently have caught and have had their bodies permanently damaged by this disease within the last few months, one of them being a family member who did everything right, so the whole "lol no big deal it's endemic now" shit is really fucking depressing, ngl. It kind of handwaves away a very real pain people are going through.