The New York Times admits and shows COVIDS PARTISAN ERRORS. This article shows that our Democratic neighbors are much worse about knowing basic Covid-19 risk rates. But everyone needs to learn their Covid-19 state dashboards. The information can be found at most of the state Covid-19 dashboards around the United States and the world. I have shown on all of my videos, that the Dashboards really show reality.
As you see above, 69% of Democrats are extremely wrong on the chances of hospitalization from Covid-19. The problem I see is that 51% of Republicans and 60% of independents are also way off base.
The New York Times admits,
Democrats, on the other hand, are more likely to exaggerate the severity of Covid.
Democrats are also more likely to exaggerate Covid’s toll on young people and to believe that children account for a meaningful share of deaths.
But then the Times reinforces Covid misinformation.
Republicans’ underestimation of Covid risks helps explain their resistance to wearing a mask — even though doing so could save their own life or that of a family member.
More than one-third of Republican voters, for example, said that people without Covid symptoms could not spread the virus. Similar shares said that Covid was killing fewer people than either the seasonal flu or vehicle crashes. All of those beliefs are wrong, and badly so. Asymptomatic spread is a major source of transmission, and Covid has killed about 15 times more Americans than either the flu or vehicle crashes do in a typical year.
The auto accident statistic has been overused and misperceived. The statistic should be used not from the total numbers, but the risk rate. The Asymptomatic spread theory is unraveling if not already been disproven.
From An Interview With Professor Jay Bhattacharya, one of the main signers of the Great Barrington Declaration,
The scientific evidence now strongly suggests that COVID-19 infected individuals who are asymptomatic are more than an order of magnitude less likely to spread the disease to even close contacts than symptomatic COVID-19 patients. A meta-analysis of 54 studies from around the world found that within households – where none of the safeguards that restaurants are required to apply are typically applied – symptomatic patients passed on the disease to household members in 18 per cent of instances, while asymptomatic patients passed on the disease to household members in 0.7 per cent of instances. A separate, smaller meta-analysis similarly found that asymptomatic patients are much less likely to infect others than symptomatic patients. (MY TEXT CHANGES)
Asymptomatic individuals are an order of magnitude less likely to infect others than symptomatic individuals, even in intimate settings such as people living in the same household where people are much less likely to follow social distancing and masking practices that they follow outside the household. Spread of the disease in less intimate settings by asymptomatic individuals – including religious services, in-person restaurant visits, gyms, and other public settings – are likely to be even less likely than in the household.
The New York Times, Washington Post, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook will all continue to contribute to the misinformation and confuse our neighbors. The best way to combat this is to learn and regularly review your local and state Covid-19 Dashboard. Do your own calculations regularly. Direct any skeptics to the dashboards.