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Originally Posted by StillwaterTownie
Heck, for all you know the statistics from my local hospital speaks for hundreds of hospitals throughout the country. If you're right, then show statistics from a USA hospital that shows that over 50% of the covid patients there are VACCINATED!
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You clearly can't even comprehend my rebuttal.
This is what happens when people like you just constantly regurgitate "talking points" spoon fed to you from the media and never take the time to use critical thinking skills and drill down on the information.
As stated, by your own admission you claimed that testing went down...
"I'm further happy my local hospital recently reported its number of covid tests for covid has declined to 30% from 48%"
And yet you can't even understand that if you test less, theoretically the number of cases would indeed go down (Jesus dude....this isn't rocket science). I remember Nate Silver making this same comment about the disingenuous argument you are making (a point I made to people part way through the pandemic)...
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/st...04881347510272
This comment is you in a nutshell
Not providing context on the increase in testing is such a basic error, and has been so widespread, that it's revealing about the media's goals. It's more interested in telling plausibly-true stories ("narratives") that sound smart to its audience than in accuracy/truth per se.
And here's some more info that can help educate you
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...e-meaningless/
And then you continue with your focus on a percentage on a statistically insignificant number of people. The number could be 100%, but if that 100% equals 1/100th of 1%, it's really not all that relevant. And yet you go on and ignore the NUMBER of people (vaccinated or unvaccinated) that never end up in the ICU.
You are simply not equipped to have a rational conversation on this topic because you never took the time to understand what you were actually saying every time you parroted your talking point.
When you can come back with a rational conversation, feel free. In the meantime, you are wasting my time and everyone else's with your nonsense (and ignoring, not comprehending, or just acting obtuse to what's being said is not a viable debate strategy).
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