Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!
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Ghost Rider
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This is true.
If you notice, when there is a slight increase, it's compared to a random point in time to say highest since X
It even fails to detail the full comparison, cases may be as high as march for example , but deaths are as low as X.
It's been happening for a long time now, whatever is the bigger number is the one in the headlines. Sadly the part the media is playing. Always got someone to predict 100k cases a day or deaths a day when there isn't much news to report.
Martin Alvito
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People seem to be bad at discriminating truth from lies. The media and government have earned their distrust. That said, misinformation from other sources spreads like wildfire.
The only explanation I can come up with is that many people these days believe things because they get some kind of emotional payoff from being a part of like-minded communities, which is the absolute worst reason I can think of to believe something. It's as though if we don't teach people how to reason and evaluate evidence, and make them feel isolated because local communities have broken down, they become vulnerable to the first cult leader they encounter. [/sarcasm]
When cases are high, they report on high cases. When deaths are high, they report on high deaths.
And that guy is complaining about that
He's saying that the media reports on the most alarmist information available, which is a fair criticism seeing how their entire business model is clickbait. It doesn't follow that the clickbait is a lie, as you point out.
arminisgod
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I read it. These studies.. which I am part of are still included in the govs daily figures.
tsubaki
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cases and infections are different things you know
JLW
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Explain?
arminisgod
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No they aren't.
Im guessing you are trying to say that positive cases on the studies wouldn't have been picked up otherwise. Which is true, but it isn't new, it's been the same for 18 months.
spectateur
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tsubaki
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Yes they are - you can see this from the way the words are formed by different letters, but also if you care to read that article it’s explained what they are referring to.
arminisgod
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No, not on that article. The infections were were picked up in the study, which turn into cases
arminisgod
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I've read it ffs. I'm in a similar study.
U test positive, as my GF did and nhs test and trace take over. An infection is a case
tsubaki
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Weren’t you claiming they were inaccurate though? Surely if they are the same thing they’d be the same numbers.
arminisgod
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How are case numbers inaccurate? They are facts. The reporting of it is inaccurate.
The study will guess that the rest of the country will follow a similar pattern
tsubaki
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Do you even read your own posts?
You criticised that article because you said case numbers were falling. It was pointed out to you that cases and infections are not the same thing, but you disagreed with that even though the numbers are different.
For anyone who does read posts, here is the React-1 website where they explain where their data is from (swabs and extrapolations) and how it’s put together:
Real-time Assessment of Community Transmission (REACT) Study
REal-time Assessment of Community Transmission
www.imperial.ac.uk
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