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Re:Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less... by native_samples on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @01:42PM (#29555487)
Spanish Flu definitely not the same severity as COVID, not even close.

Apparently though people's risk perceptions about COVID are wildly off base, by orders of magnitude.

https://news.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/354938/adults-estimat...

40% of US Democrats think COVID hospitalization risk if you're unvaccinated is 50%! Fifty percent! The real answer is less than 1%. Other polls have shown similar things for fatality rates, like estimated 16% IFR on average in France. It really makes me realize why people act in such extreme ways, if that's what they think.

COVID is to a large extent a total failure of our societies ability to disseminate accurate information. Unfortunately this misinformation catastrophe is largely the work of the very same people who are constantly complaining about misinformation.

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Re:Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less... by kenjackson on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @05:10PM (#29558733)
How is it possible that anyone thinks 50% of all unvaccinated people have been hospitalized -- for just about anything! Seeing polls like this give me so little faith in our ability to make judgments as a country on anything non-trivial.
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