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by jwegan 2252 days ago
Also biased because they are sampling people who are out and about. People who are out and about likely come into contact with more people than people who are staying at home and rarely going out.
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Out, about, and willing to speak to a stranger, which I think is the biggest bias. Pretty much everyone I know goes on the occasional walk, but we all stay the fuck away from other people.
My Hollywood movie plot theory is that Covid affects inhibitions.
It’s certainly not a hollywood movie—for the flu, it’s already the case!

Change in Human Social Behavior in Response to a Common Vaccine

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20816312/

Conclusions: These results show that there is an immediate active behavioral response to infection before the expected onset of symptoms or sickness behavior.

You might enjoy David Cronenberg's film Rabid.