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[-] UFODivebomb@programming.dev 16 points 1 year ago

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 43 points 1 year ago

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

[-] UFODivebomb@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

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 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

Yeah because it's too late now. Covid has become just another disease spreading around now. If people actually wore masks and got vaccinated we could have eradicated it but now it's like the flu where it changes to quickly to manage.

Which was the whole point of the quarantine and masks and social distancing but god forbid Sarah doesn't hang with her besties and John doesn't get to party on the weekends

[-] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

If people actually wore masks and got vaccinated we could have eradicated

Not really, there was no chance of us eradicating covid. Covid spreads well even among the masked and the vaccinated. We could only slow it down.

but now it's like the flu where it changes to quickly to manage

It was like that from the start, there were multiple competing strains of covid right from when it was first discovered since it had already been spreading for at least 2 months at that point and was all over the world.

Covid was always going to become endemic.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, eradication was never a goal. It was always about slowing the spread so hospitals would hopefully not get overwhelmed.

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