I am beginning to hate the #COVID19 exaggerators as much as minimizers on Twitter. Some just want to create a false sense of alarm (or safety) to gain engagement.
Today, someone claimed that data from Prague shows “a significant increase in test positivity recently hitting a 40% positivity rate.”
Here is the chart. Do you see a trend in increasing test positivity towards a 40% rate? Because, what I see a one-day, out-of-pattern bounce amid a relatively stable, low positive rate.
If you follow me, you know I am no COVID influencer, and I wish more people took precautions. But the way to encourage that is not to lie to people and create a sense of panic that is unfounded in reality. That will ONLY encourage more people to tune out to those of us offering good, objective data and information about why COVID risks are still worth considering and minimizing.
Good for you for still trying to follow the science. Frankly, I got tired of being the "Well, actually" guy to so many well meaning posts and just gave up. There's such a minimal amount of real data anymore that most of what's out there just isn't, scientifically speaking, worth sharing at this point and because of the small sample sizes people are jumping to claims that are dubious.
@BE this hurts, right in the gut. I’m also seeing this as a well actually guy and the denialism is just intense…