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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive
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For my part, my antenna goes up whenever a situation devolves into "don't believe what you see, believe what we tell you". People tend to gravitate toward like-minded people. In the time since the pandemic first hit, my wife and I have known many people with COVID; every family member except one, many friends and acquaintances, and of course each other. There's no way of knowing the exact number but I'd say in the neighborhood of 75 to 100, if not more. Out of that number we've known precisely ONE person who has died from it (morbidly obese, hospitalized with a positive COVID diagnosis who died in hospital from a heart attack) and ONE other hospitalization (a woman in her 60s who was hospitalized at the time she caught it because of an infection in a replaced knee joint) and who recovered from both. For the most part, the people we know and associate with have life styles similar to ours, and almost to a person, COVID was merely an inconvenience, not a perceived death sentence.
Live right. Think positive. Don't give in to fear.
You'll be fine.
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The family members of the over 1,000,000 Americans that have died WISH they could make the same statement. The excess death numbers (actual count of dead bodies) back up that 1,000,000 number.
Don't give into fear, but also don't "bravely" follow a fool who overestimates his knowledge of epidemiology, virology, and statistics.
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Why do people insist on making claims without looking them up first, do they really think no one will check? Proof by emphatic assertion rarely works.
Confirmation bias is real; I can find any number of articles that say so.
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