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:: tens of thousands of people die of covid everyday::
COVID conspiracy theorists: Bah the numbers are made up, they just report anyone who dies for any reason as a covid death. Fake news!
:: one person who already had severe allergies and a heart condition dies from the COVID vaccine::
Also COVID conspiracy theorists: OMG see the vaccine is deadly an more dangerous than the virus, it is a legit threat and has a microchip in it!
@freemo I have a friend who is way too deeply into that :(
@wa__em too many people are. The problem is the government legit broke a lot of trust while simultaniously fear mongering the topic (one that warrents some degree of natural fear regardless)...
The end result is no trust and a lot of fear to go around. That tends to manifest in all sorts of unusual ways. One of which is conspiracy theory nonsense.
Headlines like this are so dishonest because they rely on people not understanding statistics.
If everyone gets vaccinated, and the vaccination is 99.9999% effective, you would be telling the truth to say "100% of all new covid cases are vaccinated people"... but despite being true it is highly manipulative since people dont understand that it isnt really saying anything of value, its just meant to sound scary and say nothing.
It wouldnt be a vaccine, but how is that relevant? Neither the news article you posted nor my own example, presents a condition where a vaccine has zero effect... In fact as I stated a vaccine could be 99.9999% effective and you could still see 100% of people who get the virus having been vaccinated. The wording is simply constructed to be confusing and cause people to misunderstand what is being stated (hint, it is not stating the vaccine is ineffective in any way).
