Posted on 04/08/2021 10:35:18 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
....This invites an important question: why are young people more afraid? One obvious answer is young adults might simply be unaware their risk of serious illness is low.
As I recently noted, Americans in general are wildly misinformed about the risk of hospitalization from COVID-19, with roughly a third of Americans believing the chances of being hospitalized with the virus are 50 percent. (In actuality, it’s closer to one percent.)
...Studies have shown that US media essentially created a climate of fear by publishing a flood of negative news in 2020. Indeed, an Ivy League-led study concluded that 91 percent of US articles in major media were negative in tone, nearly double when compared to non-US media.... The negative news, the researchers noted, continued even when the coronavirus was ebbing and when positive medical breakthroughs were being achieved....
While writing this article, I had to find statistics on the risks of COVID for young adults. To find the information, I did what I normally do: I went to Google and typed in keywords for what I was looking to find—“young people less likely to die from Covid.”
I was expecting to find on top a bunch of articles and research showing that young people have relatively little to fear from the coronavirus. That’s not what happened. Here are the top results I got:
Coronavirus and COVID-19: Younger Adults Are at Risk, Too | Johns Hopkins Medicine
What Young, Healthy People Have to Fear From COVID-19 | The Atlantic
Data reveal deadliness of COVID-19, even in young adults | University of Minnesota CIDRAP
Young people are at risk of severe Covid-19 illness | NBC
Dying Young: The Health Care Workers in Their 20s Killed by COVID-19 | KHN.....
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Thank social media for the disinformation
They need something like fact checkers or sumthin
No doubt about the media fear. But you also googled...I stopped googling and started using DuckDuckGo a few months ago. Only thing google is better at is shopping related searches.
I thought from FR, less than half a percent were getting it, but 1% are being hospitalized? That's 3.5 million people. That's a lot higher than I thought.
But based on their behaviour, it doesn't seem like young people are worried at all.
I think anyone of child-bearing age is better off taking their chances with the virus, than with the vaccine. For older people, the math starts to change.
Narcissism, pure and simple. Generation of coddled divas who think the sun revolves around them, or should.
Yes, but the more probable reason is that they've been raised to feel unsafe by everything they don't like or upsets them, and insist that whatever it is be eliminated so they can feel safe.
Not at all surprising, given that we’ve created an entire generation of snowflakes. There are a handful of exceptions, of course; but probably not enough to fight a committed enemy and win.
Answer: Because they’re morons.
I ROTFLMAO at students walking around a local college campus outside with MASKS on in broad daylight...what pathetic gelded simpletons.
Perhaps they have elderly family members they are concerned for. Not selfish!!
Lot of obese young people these days. Saw a video of Portland a while back and antifa was detouring cars for some reason. There was a fat girl cussing out drivers who complained and she was huffing on an inhaler in between cussing people out.
Well, credit where credit’s due — they DO have those stylish man-buns!
One Word: brainwashed
Yep. I once had a couple of millennials so upset that I smoked outside (not on their property, but next door), and the smell floated through their open windows (which they chose to leave open), that they decided to move-out, since I refused to stop smoking just because they insisted they had “a right to live in a smoke-free environment”.
Telling the girl’s soyboy partner that I wasn’t going to stop smoking, and smoking a cigarette while telling him that, was extremely satisfying :)
My generation had a motto: Question authority.
Today, they did what all people under 25 are prone to do - trust what older people say because older people are a little godlike.
However, those older people only include those that the media thrusts out to them as “trustworthy.”
I looked at Duckduckgo. This article appeared on the first page.
I looked at Bing. This article had not appeared by page 13.
We are clearly being manipulated by the order of search results.
I think that you’ve put your finger on it. I’ve been baffled by this for well over a year now. At work, the older people are the least worried.
Some young zoomers are still hiding in their bedrooms, and washing their groceries.
We have not begun to see the totality of the damage.
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