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Thank you so much for the clarity and levity. The person you're responding to is understandably scared and is ignorantly propagating the sensationalism that th

Thank you so much for the clarity and levity. The person you're responding to is understandably scared and is ignorantly propagating the sensationalism that the news has been hammering into our brains. The news is not science..people need to realize. It's a business and even the biggest news companies peddle sensationalism. Even if only one person has some strange side effect like 'covid toes'...the news media can prey on humans emotional response which overrides statistical reasoning to lay claim that it's a possible Covid outcome. And while it's not an outright lie...it's extremely disengenuous and very sensational. And they do it all the time. We need to teach people statistical reasoning in school and we need to hold news agencies accountable for statistically irresponsible news.

vmception 6y ago
I've relocated twice during this pandemic and have no qualms going out and making judgements for my personal probability of exposure. "Scared and unable to derive statistics" is a large inaccurate stretch of the imagination, I'll make my own stretch of the imagination and say you were probably pasting this response a year ago on things that turned out to be real threats for 500k Americans that didn't even know they had a meaningful pre-existing condition. We don't have statistics on who has the "inflammatory response" or any other side effect.
- konjin 6y ago
  I have a stone that keeps covid away, you can't afford to not buy it.
- nickthemagicman 6y ago
  At the end of this month when the eviction moratorium ends, there's about to be tens of thousands of people relocating to the streets. Apologies that you had to switch houses during this trying time. My heart goes out to you and your struggle. 80% of the population is under the age of 55. That age group has more of a chance of dying of a car accident than they do of Covid. 40% of all money in the money supply has been printed in the past year, building supplies are already up by two to four times and are showing signs of inflation. America just went 1.9 trillion dollars more into debt. Tens of thousands of small businesses have closed and thier business has been absorbed by large companies increasing inequality. The price we're about to pay for this economically is going to be significant. Poor people and future generations will probably have to pay it though. #yolo
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  - vmception 6y ago
    the basis of my post was about the lack of statistics between "dead" and "not dead", so statistics about who dies is pretty irrelevant I moved because I had the privilege to choose and did you are reading everything wrong here
    - nickthemagicman 6y ago
      Covid is irrelevant if you're under the age of 55, which is 80% of the population.
sokoloff 6y ago
> We need to teach people statistical reasoning in school We don't teach most high school graduates to fluency the math that would be needed for this reasoning to work fluidly.
- nickthemagicman 6y ago
  It's unfortunate. People who are poor statistical reasoning are easy to manipulate.

vmception 6y ago

I've relocated twice during this pandemic and have no qualms going out and making judgements for my personal probability of exposure. "Scared and unable to derive statistics" is a large inaccurate stretch of the imagination, I'll make my own stretch of the imagination and say you were probably pasting this response a year ago on things that turned out to be real threats for 500k Americans that didn't even know they had a meaningful pre-existing condition. We don't have statistics on who has the "inflammatory response" or any other side effect.

konjin 6y ago
I have a stone that keeps covid away, you can't afford to not buy it.
nickthemagicman 6y ago
At the end of this month when the eviction moratorium ends, there's about to be tens of thousands of people relocating to the streets. Apologies that you had to switch houses during this trying time. My heart goes out to you and your struggle. 80% of the population is under the age of 55. That age group has more of a chance of dying of a car accident than they do of Covid. 40% of all money in the money supply has been printed in the past year, building supplies are already up by two to four times and are showing signs of inflation. America just went 1.9 trillion dollars more into debt. Tens of thousands of small businesses have closed and thier business has been absorbed by large companies increasing inequality. The price we're about to pay for this economically is going to be significant. Poor people and future generations will probably have to pay it though. #yolo
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- vmception 6y ago
  the basis of my post was about the lack of statistics between "dead" and "not dead", so statistics about who dies is pretty irrelevant I moved because I had the privilege to choose and did you are reading everything wrong here
  - nickthemagicman 6y ago
    Covid is irrelevant if you're under the age of 55, which is 80% of the population.

sokoloff 6y ago

> We need to teach people statistical reasoning in school We don't teach most high school graduates to fluency the math that would be needed for this reasoning to work fluidly.

nickthemagicman 6y ago
It's unfortunate. People who are poor statistical reasoning are easy to manipulate.