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by natalyarostova 2720 days ago
??? I'm not sure you know what virtue signaling is. Also your tone is very unpleasant.

The point the comment was making was very simple: providing a single percentage that includes as a category things that are very different is misleading. In the extreme, saying "95% of the US takes painkillers at a rate considered addiction" where painkiller is defined as aspirin or heroin, is not a very useful metric