Posted on 08/20/2020 1:13:48 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Polls indicate that Americans are very poorly informed about COVID facts. That doesn’t surprise me, and I don’t think it should surprise anyone. A lot of people have trouble with complex scientific information, especially if there’s math involved. It doesn’t help, either, when the popular sources of information – the writers and pundits of the MSM, and/or social media – either don’t understand the information itself, or purposely present it in a skewed and/or confusing manner in order to stir up fear...It amuses me, in a bleak way, that the site reporting on this news gets it wrong, as well. Here’s the quote I’m talking about. The problem is in the third sentence – it’s actually not the risk of death that’s being reported as 80% in older people, that’s the percentage of the COVID deaths that involve older people...
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewneo.com ...
(sniff, sniff)
I think I smell ozone.
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