What happens when science & facts are politicized: deaths per unvaccinated patients by [deleted] in politics

[–]SoCo 15 insightful - 3 fun15 insightful - 2 fun16 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

As someone who does a ton of data analysis for a living...

This is a purposely terrible choice for a chart. When you can read this chart properly, you can tell the data shows vaccination rates didn't matter much and blue counties weren't as vaccinated as it seems by a glance. This chart style was obviously chosen to make that difficult to tell and make the real data impossible to extract precisely from the melted together blobs.

Some things to remember:

  • The very worst was almost 0.7%, which is pretty significant, a little over 30x what the flu does normally. Although, this is using the inherently inflated emergency counting, which is reasonable for a poor unorganized country that can't do real testing and cause of death examinations, which calls any death with a positive emergency high-false-positive junk test, as being a Covid death.
  • You see that red line along the bottom, those are all zero's.
  • Those big dots...those are up to 10K times the deaths of those little dots and obscuring if not totally hiding a massive disproportion. Counting deaths or infection rates in per population is always dumb and misleading, but common practice.
  • The dot trick makes it seem like a downward trend as vaccination rate increases, but that is misleading. What you really see is a box at the high end of vaccination rate. This box is pretty well covered, especially guestimating for the data obscuring of bigger dots.
  • If you ignore the red, you see that the blue extends all the way into the unvaccinated side, down to at least 30-35%. You also notice that much of the blue is under 75%. This chart type and its dot-trick hides how much of the blue is unvaccinated, but it is still clear that it is a lot.
  • that solid line of blue dots and one red dot, along the right shows peak vaccination rate's failure.
  • Heavily obscured by the dumb-dots, it appears that blue counties were mostly only between 55%-70% vaccinated, although it appears some carefully manipulation of dot overlapping may have hidden many blue counties whom were only 40 -55% vaccinated and had higher death rates.

Takeaways:

  • This chart it total and utter manipulated/misleading garbage.
  • Larger population densities are more at risk and thus more likely to be vaccinated. These are usually around larger urbanized cities, with high poverty rates, homeless, and students. The flood of low-info, politically uninformed, reactionary, and uneducated tend to lean towards blue.
  • The normal death rate was about 0.05% to 0.25% and didn't tend to matter too much about vaccination rate.
  • The highest vaccination rates only helped, at best obscured by a dumb chat type, to help reduce deaths by about 0.1% to 0.15%, although this seemed only for some counties with those high vaccination rates.
  • The highest vaccination rate counties still had some very large counties with death rates comparable to the lowest vaccination rate counties.
  • A large amount of blue counties had very low vaccination rates.

Saidit is its own worst enemy - a combination of mean and stupid - which keeps Saidit very small and ultra right-wing by bootylicious in SaidIt

[–]SoCo 14 insightful - 5 fun14 insightful - 4 fun15 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

Saidit currently is a mirror image of Reddit when it was younger, before corporate interests took over discourse. Reddit was right wing and the main news sub was r/conspiracy for the longest time. I tried making local state subreddits, but there wasn't enough people or interests yet.

"By promoting conspiracy theories, narcissistic leaders can cause significant societal harm—be it discouraging political engagement, encouraging unhealthy beliefs and behaviors (e.g., the anti-vaccination movement), discrimination, or acts of violence." by [deleted] in politics

[–]SoCo 15 insightful - 2 fun15 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You get a lot of anti-science corporate funded boot licking advertisers making cash to publish utter diarhea like this. You also have tons of low info suckers who love the taste.

U.S. is barred from combating disinformation on social media. Here's what it means by YoMamma in politics

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The weaponized professional spin-articles are coming out on this topic, hoping to throw shade on the subversion of democracy.

They took a little while longer, so this must be a hard one to spin. Shit-birds at arstechnica also did a careful downplaying article.

It must of taken some extra time to buy the fake comments on the news articles too.

Remember that Congress spent years loudly and publicly threatening to destroy social media companies with anti-trust enforcement, before forcing them to play ball with this "public-private partnership", where the government demands social media sites remove specific users and content.

We know from the Twitter leaks that a lot of what they were demanding to be removed was not disinformation. Quite a few incidents showed that government entities demanded the removal of content that they knew was true and was not disinformation.

Some people on SaidIt are exactly the same as on Reddit: cringe and blue-pilled. Why do some wokies and troons insist on using SaidIt, when they would probably have a much better experience on Reddit? by Godknight in SaidIt

[–]SoCo 12 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

They've been gaslit into thinking it's their duty and if they must work the social media war trenches, fighting against the wrong-thinker's they've been convinced were evil and dangerous by attacking them, while spewing hype for their own enshrined perspectives like a commercial. If they don't, then they've been convinced by corporate media's decade's long multi-source collusion campaign to flood constant AI-enhanced fear-based psychologically-aimed daily reminders, that the world would crumble.

'Vote like your life depends on it, because it does!' - DNC 2020, prior to a post-election bipartisan civil uprising mobbing the Capitol

DNC, Media Collude To Suppress Story About DNC, Media Colluding To Suppress Story by BISH in WorldNews

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I thought this was a satire site, what are they doing reporting real news...

Just got this notice about being in the WatchRedditDie discord server by [deleted] in WatchRedditDie

[–]SoCo 11 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Discord would be much better with open source software and a federated/decentralized platform.

Motorist shoots dead two environmental protesters blocking a road by [deleted] in news

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Terrorists attack an afraid and frustrated man with a gun, who they trapped and cornered on a dangerous street.

I'm not sure what they expected. This seems pure self defense.