This site is wearing me down this past week.

edit: I am more worn down. Shouldn't have posted this thread. Feeling awful about my future.

    • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I'm going to disengage now and I'd like you to know I stopped reading your comment when you led off with a personal anecdote wrapped in two tortillas of snark

        • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          "As long as I can find one industry paid scientist that says what I want to hear, the vast majority of science is just cherrypicking"

          • Chuds circa 2002 RE: global warming

          Look. I picked up a snowball. My personal experience is that you're wrong. Way more rational to believe what I can see, n'est pas?

          • space_comrade [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            Look. I picked up a snowball.

            Except I know of about a 100 cases of Covid from friends family and acquaintances, and many more from second or third hand stories so again unless I'm living among genetically superior ubermen or just people that are very very extremely lucky I think I have a halfway decent sample. If it was THAT bad I think I'd be seeing it a bit more death and long term illness around me. I still heard stories of death and my friends that worked in hospitals told a bunch of horror stories and that's awful but it's also not the apocalypse you're making it out to be. It doesn't have to be either the common cold or the doomsday virus, it's somewhere in between.

            • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              The problem with anecdotal evidence is not the sample size. It is the sampling method.

              • space_comrade [he/him]
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                2 years ago

                Yes I must be mistaken, everybody around me is secretly suffering from long Covid without telling me anything about it.