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by t-writescode 1622 days ago
The nail in the coffin for me was when they would make articles about “700 people fired from X company for not getting vaccine.” When that company has like 85k people (which they don’t mention in the article and you have to look up yourself, of course), and it’s like “so less than 1% of the employees refused the vaccine?”

Even when they tell the technical truth, it’s so full of deception to sell ads I just can’t.
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reallyagain 1622 days ago
I assume you're talking about the Mayo clinic firing 700 people for not getting the vaccine(given it was exactly 700 people and it was 6 days ago).

I opened the first 15 results on Google and every single one mentions the number of people as proportion of the overall company size. The vast majority are in paragraph 1 or 2.

Could you link to the article (hopefully from a reputable source) that doesn't mention the company size?

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op00to 1622 days ago
They can’t because the articles all mentioned how few people refused. I don’t know what it is about this shit that drives people to become absolute morons.
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4ggr0 1622 days ago
At least for me, in this instance I don't see why the percentage is of more relevancy than the total amount.

Yes, it's only 1% of a company, which is not a lot. But 700 people being fired is quite a lot, if we consider that this affects more than these 700 people. I'm sure a lot of these 700 people have a family at home.

In your example I don't really see why that is proof that they use the total amount for ad-driven clickbait. There are more than enough better examples for this, I think.

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thathndude 1622 days ago
And some of those employers are health institutions. And those institutions now have a worker shortage. And rather than bringing back those workers, many who have natural immunity from having had Covid, which can be proven by a lab test, instead they are telling people with active Covid that they can just come back earlier from quarantine.

So was the quarantine window wrong all along? Or is it changing now because we really need workers?

The real soon here is a complete erosion of trust in institutions. I think many folks greatly underestimate the extent of the harm caused by this loss of trust.

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