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The common pattern I'm seeing is people misinterpreting statistics then going on to conclude that the vaccinations available to us are useless and spamming this
by smcl 5y ago
The common pattern I'm seeing is people misinterpreting statistics then going on to conclude that the vaccinations available to us are useless and spamming this misinformation everywhere they can, mistakenly believing that they've hit the scoop of a lifetime. Only afterwards do we find out the real reason behind any apparent anomalies. But by then it's too late - the antivax crowd already have another factoid that circulates through their communities and bolsters their beliefs.
In this case Waterford has reported an increase in cases week-on-week (470, which is a lot for a county of 116k people) then this website completely flubbed the calculation and somehow decided that meant 5% of the adult population have it. That is unless Waterford comprises 9,400 adults and 106,000 children in which case I am quite alarmed but for an entirely different reason.
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