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\u201cThere\u2019s a virus out there that\u2019s killing people.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cReally? Which people?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, the median age is 80, and about half the people who died were in nursing homes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOh my god! Ya know what we should do? We should close all the schools!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cUh \u2026 but \u2014”<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, some young people died too, right?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTurns out the virus is less likely to kill young people than the ordinary flu, but yes, some younger people died. Nearly all of them had pre-existing diseases or metabolic problems like obesity, diabetes\u2014”<\/p>\n
\u201cHoly moly! In that case, we need to cancel college sports! We can\u2019t take a chance that 20-year-olds in peak athletic condition will get sick and die!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut \u2026 ya see \u2026 I was just pointing out that\u2014”<\/p>\n
\u201cIs there any indication of when this horrible virus will stop killing people?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cActually, in most regions, hardly anyone is dying from it now. People aren’t even showing up in hospitals anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s terrible! We need to make sure everybody wears a mask so this senseless slaughter will stop!\u201d<\/p>\n
Welcome to the world of bed-wetter logic, where facts and data bounce off people\u2019s heads like tiny ping-pong balls.<\/p>\n
Remember a few months ago, when the bed-wetter media breathlessly reported on the rising number of deaths? You don\u2019t see that much anymore. Now the bed-wetter reports are mostly about THE RISING NUMBER OF CASES!<\/strong><\/p>\n Well, yes, the number of people testing positive for some fragment of the virus is rising and rising and rising. That\u2019s because we\u2019re testing like crazy, and \u2013 surprise! \u2013 finding more of exactly what we\u2019re trying to find. The vast majority of the people who test positive have no symptoms, which means for the vast majority of us, coronavirus barely qualifies as a cold. That ought to be good news.<\/p>\n But no, the bed-wetter media insist on reporting the rising number of (ahem<\/em>) \u201ccases\u201d as if it\u2019s proof the equivalent of airborne AIDS is blowing around out there and we\u2019re all in danger. Not surprisingly, surveys show that a huge chunk of the public wildly overestimates how many non-elderly people have died. Here are some typical survey results<\/a>:<\/p>\n Six months into this pandemic, Americans still dramatically misunderstand the risk of dying from COVID-19:<\/p>\n On average, Americans believe that people aged 55 and older account for just over half of total COVID-19 deaths; the actual figure is 92%.<\/p>\n Americans believe that people aged 44 and younger account for about 30% of total deaths; the actual figure is 2.7%.<\/p>\n Americans overestimate the risk of death from COVID-19 for people aged 24 and younger by a factor of 50; and they think the risk for people aged 65 and older is half of what it actually is (40% vs 80%).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Yup, lots of people out there believe thousands<\/em> of school-age kids have died. That\u2019s what happens when the bed-wetter media are more interested in scaring the hell out of the audience than in \u2026 oh, I don\u2019t know, let me think back to journalism school and see if I can remember the supposed purpose of news organizations \u2026 oh, yeah: informing<\/em> the audience.<\/p>\n Substitute watch TV news<\/em> for read the newspaper,<\/em> and Mark Twain\u2019s observation has never been more relevant than it is today:\u00a0 If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re misinformed.<\/em><\/p>\n Thanks to our bed-wetter media, here\u2019s how badly misinformed people are:<\/p>\n This misperception translates directly into a degree of fear for one\u2019s health that for most people vastly exceeds the actual risk: we find that the share of people who are very worried or somewhat worried of suffering serious health consequences should they contract COVID-19 is almost identical across all age brackets between 25 and 64 years old, and it\u2019s not far below the share for people 65 and older.<\/p>\n The discrepancy with the actual mortality data is staggering<\/strong>: for people aged 18\u201324, the share of those worried about serious health consequences is 400 times higher than the share of total COVID deaths; for those age 25\u201334 it is 90 times higher. The chart below truly is worth a thousand words:<\/p>\n The hysteria and the wild overestimation of actual risk among the misinformed has allowed bed-wetting politicians to get away with authoritarian overreach and impose restrictions that make absolutely no scientific sense.<\/p>\n In California (governed by a world-class bed-wetter) the schools are closed for the foreseeable future. We just can\u2019t risk exposing kids to this horrible, deadly disease, doncha know. And how many school-age (under 18) kids have died from COVID-19 in California? Wait for it \u2026<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/fathead-movie.com\/images\/CovidCrazyFears.png\")
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