Really?
Well, it's this simple: Statistics can and are very often manipulated to make you think you're safer than you are. Example: dying in an airline crash.
What they love to tell you is there are THIS many airline flights but only THIS many deaths so that your odds of dying in an airline crash are miniscule.
But that's not the truth. The truth is: if you are in a airline crash, what are your odds of dying? Well, ask yourself a question: when's the last time you heard of a major airline crash where anybody survived it?
Virtually none.
What's more, they'll consider an airliner taping the landing gate at 2 mph an accident.
They do the same thing with car accidents, only the other way around. The airline industry goes so far as to say you're safer flying than you are driving a car. They use the total car accident deaths vs. total airline deaths and warp the statistics to say what they want.
What they don't do is present the idea of how many car accidents you'll be in during your life and survive vs. how many airline accidents you'll be in and survive.
Fact is, most of us are involved in a car accident at some point in our lives. I've been in 3. Never been seriously injured. But most of us will never be in an airline crash. If we ever are, our odds of surviving it are very low indeed.
They're doing the same thing with Covid and downplaying the odds. They don't want people scared. They want people to continue going out, taking that vacation, contributing to the economy.
They're playing the same game the airline does: there's THIS many positive test and only THIS many deaths so you have only this miniscule chance of dying.
But that's not the whole truth.
Fact is, some of those are people who have tested positive more than once. Another fact is that as time goes on, more and more people are vaccinated and testing positive.
But those vaccinated face little to no chance at all of dying, so it skews the numbers in the direction of no chance of dying. Here's basically how that works:
If you have 100 people positive and only 1 death you have to actually break that up. At this stage, just over half the nation is fully vaccinated with another 20% with at least 1 shot of a two step vaccine.
So that 1% chance of death is false when you consider that at this stage of the pandemic odds are at least 30 of those positive tests came from vaccinated people. What's more, another 20% or so had at least one shot, giving them far better odds of surviving it.
So only about half those positive test, at the most, were from totally unvaccinated people. So suddenly your odds of dying if you're unvaccinated DOUBLE.
And truth be told, it's worse than that. The longer this goes on, the more your odds of dying if you're unvaccinated increase.
In the end, if you survive that airline crash the first time, as you crash over and over your odds vanish. That is what is happening with covid right now.
