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I love the cognitive dissonance most people have. I'm not implying there's anything wrong with this article -- only that there's a lot of contradictory informat
by LeCow 6y ago
I love the cognitive dissonance most people have. I'm not implying there's anything wrong with this article -- only that there's a lot of contradictory information people like to believe.
> "your immune system is probably 99.9% effective"
> "death rate of 10%"
> "deadlier than some strains of the flu"
> "safe than some strains of the flu"
- simonh 6y agoHow can there be nothing wrong with an article containing contradictions? ;) Those aren’t contradictory though. It’s not the 99.9% of the virus that your immune system neutralised that kills a patient with severe COVID-19, it’s the other 0.1%. Deadlier than some strains of flu doesn’t mean deadlier than all strains of the flu.
- labawi 6y agoAFAIU (not a doctor): Usually it is not the 0.1% of virus that kills severe covid patients, but the massive carnage and collateral damage from a prolonged battle of an inappropriate immune response (imprecise, slow, escalating..).
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- nickthemagicman 6y agoCorona deaths are heavily weighted to the elderly and sick who have weakened immune systems. To a healthy person the article is accurate.
- vcxy 6y agoI don't see the contradiction. There are so so many things that our immune system eliminates for us every day successfully without so much as noticeable inflammation. It's probably higher than 99.9% of things. This coronavirus is not one of them for many people, neither is the flu. Of course we only talk about the things that actually cause noticeable harm, but that's just availability bias.