Covid Figures

[lankeela]

Yes another one! Does anyone ever really bother to read all through the posts quoting facts and figures? I doubt many do so why do people keep putting them on - is it a 'fifteen minutes of fame' syndrome?

[Stickybottle]

Probably better to bolster a post with facts and empirical evidence against misinformed lies and wildly inaccurate claims from Facebook or what one may have overheard in a pub
Cannot work out why so many question the likes of Professor Whitty and other experts in their field with their vast knowledge and expertise that has been honed over many years of research since finishing medical school
Or do you not like empirical evidence and statistics from reliable and unbiased sources ?

[10ClarionSt]

Lankeela, Covid is all over the media. I fail to see the point of complaining about it.

[10ClarionSt]

The coverage and the posts, I meant.

[Sqad]

Lankeela.....no big deal...it's a sport and not new either as folks have been interpreting and arguing over Statistics for at least almost a century.

Do I read them?......yes, some of them yes.
Do I understand them ? ......no not all of them.
Are they important in this pandemic?........yes if you are searching for a broad picture.

But for me, I really on commonsense and what I consider tobe anecdotal communication.

Are the looking for their moment of fame? Yes, but they have probably been doing that all their lives....I suppose I have..haventyou?

[Peter Pedant]

Yes - no !
You have ill people and well people - and if the number goes up it is probably bad - - -

and if it goes down ( erm yeah) then it is good

and the rest is social work ( thanks to Heisenberg I think).

There is a lot of - "they reported X and they should have reported Y" - but it is pretty obvious even with Y, someone is not gonna be "converted"

There is a lot of stuff that is just wrong - - a sample does not give an accurate picture of the population ( yes it does if it is big enough)

Thousands have died from vaccination ( no they havent)

Flu = covid - - nope

I cant add but I insist on giving you my opinion on the maff involved
- oh great, cant wait

bbut I think it was inevitable - the great thinkers on this are still in their labs and / or stuck to the computers

[Peter Pedant]

oh and ( speccie apparently) - computer predictions are programmed to be awful

Not something I was prey to - computer predictions of the stock market are meant to be accurate and not return "sell- you will lose all your money" at every run.

Same thing happened in BSE - they went thro a LOT of experts until they got one whose views tended to be borne out by later events. He was most definitely NOT the first ( one consulted)

[Khandro]

It's the only fiction I've been reading of late.

[Peter Pedant]

oh, and - they cant have died from Covid because everyone knows it doesnt exist . So if they are dead which seriously I doubt, they must have died from something else - radiation probably

[tomus42]

If they've got any sense they won't, because nowadays it's easy to quote figures from anywhere that support a certain point of view.

You have to look at different sources and use a bit of common sense.

[royfromaus]

He's posting

[bobbinwales]

But not as ttt.. but why mention it here now gromit

[royfromaus]

Because he has had 2 threads removed