Some of the political stuff that went on during covid comes down to the usual political clowns that run govts. That and the idiots in the media getting carried away. In the early days of a pandemic, things are bound to get a bit screwy on all fronts. The data is live and emerging.
Outside of that, the anti vax mob are still struggling with the context of the numbers. This is common in other things as well. For example, People pay $1m for a house and sell it for $2m and tell people they made $1m. They didnt of course. That is a base line number, not reality. There was stamp duty, maintenance, rates, legal costs, fees, interest rates, maybe even some tax, and advertising and agents fees to sell it.
I could give another example about the auction clearance rate, but maybe another time.
Example of covid.
Lets just round up/down some numbers as an example. These numbers are a realistic example to real life.
15m people vaxxed against 1m unvaxxed. I believe it was 95% of people who got jabbed in the early days, so these numbers are ok.
Lets just make up a number and say that 5000 people died in each group. Anti vaxxers eagerly point out the numbers being close.
To an anti vaxxer, that means that each group had the same number of deaths, so therefore there was no point in taking the vaccine right? Its the same number. They think that everyone who got vaxxed were idiots while not realising that they won the gong well ahead of time.
The difference is that the group of 15m people only lost 5000 people while the group of 1m lost 5000 people. That means that if you were unvaxxed, your chances of dying was 15x higher. If we listened to them and everyone decided not to get vaxxed at all, then the numbers suggest that 15x 5000 people would have died on the same numbers. That is a total of 75,000 unvaxxed people would have died on these numbers if everyone decided not to get vaxxed. That is why we dont have the general public making drugs in their back yards. This is why we have specialisation. The internet has falsely lead people to believe they can just look everything up and instantly know everything. Why get educated then! That is why listening to your plumber mate or some online instagram poster about covid conspiracies is not in your best interest. The anit vax mob always use the baseline number for the argument without understanding how that is incomplete. For the determined anti vaxxer who now wants to fumble through endless BS to undermine the argument, dont bother.
Expand
