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by skyde 1736 days ago
What you are calling fact is interpretation on statistic. But the statistics themself are fact. ex: number of case and hospitalization for vaccinated people vs unvaccinated people. So when you look at box ploy or histogram those are the facts.

The fact don’t change every week only the interpretation.

The only fact that we can say is really changing is the R0 value of the virus but this is expected because it change over time because of our actions!

It’s more like the current price of a company stock on the NeeYork stock exchange will change every week. It change when we get new data about that company and reinterpret how much it”s worth

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> But the statistics themself are fact. ex: number of case and hospitalization for vaccinated people vs unvaccinated people.

I wish that as so.

The ‘factual’ statistics can be stretched however one wishes.

For example, what does it mean to be vaccinated? Or, for that matter, what does it mean to ‘hospitalized’? Does it mean Covid symptoms necessitated hospitalization? Or, perhaps, everyone in the hospital who tested positive? Does it include ‘recovered’ patients who, for unrelated reasons, are still in the hospital, albeit no longer in a Covid ward?

Etc.

The statistics for this entire fiasco have been garbage. I wish it were not so.

They certainly aren’t ‘facts’ as you suggest.