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Old 08-30-2014, 12:34 PM
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About the tedium of that STD remark we keep hearing from people who never have been here, I just make 'em do math in their heads.

It was always about percentage.

I say, "Let's say there are two cases and then two more show up. What is the percentage increase? Huh? Huh? So what is it?"

Then I follow up by making them tell me the actual number of cases that would be.

And then I ask them if they know how many people live here.

Then I ask them if that raw number would grab headlines like that percentage.

It's elementary.
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