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Re:How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate by matheusmoreira on Monday December 26, 2022 @11:37PM (#34145146)
> 1 in 10^7 chance

I'm not sure I believe that.

> The public isn't educated well enough to ascertain the difference.

The public may be uneducated but they're still equipped with brains capable of pattern recognition.

In my country, the public saw young famous people "mysteriously" dying of heart attacks and strokes immediately after getting vaccinated, in some cases not long after tweeting some insults at skeptics. People are watching and they are going to connect dots.

I have a little collection of screenshots of people who suffered such a fate... It's unfortunate really.

Re:How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate by creato on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @01:04AM (#34145669)
You’re suffering from confirmation bias just as much as /r/HermanCainAward. There are 8 billion people in the world, there will be plenty of examples of any theory you can come up with.
Re:How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate by ravel-bar-foo on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @04:42AM (#34147115)
In my country the vaccination was by prescription. People who wanted to be vaccinated would sit down for 3 minutes with a doctor who would tell them their probability of complications if they got Covid vs adverse events if they got the vaccine, given their sex and age bracket. (Well, not much was known for the first shot, but by the second shot side effects were well known.) Then if they consented they would be administered the vaccine. 80% of the population consented. This is how you do responsible public health communication.

As an aside, naming phenomena after priests / politicians like that can't possibly be productive. It's telling the outgroup (people who admire Cain) that they are worthy of contempt instead of addressing their object level concerns and misunderstandings.