Yes, I know, sometimes people die of serious diseases, sometimes they make a quick and full recovery, sometimes they make a slow recovery, sometimes they don't die but never fully recover The thing about a "serious" disease is if it's more serious, *all* the numbers get worse
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The "lag" when talking about anything related to COVID-19 is a perfect opportunity to lie with statistics and is the whole reason average people are cognitively underequipped to handle this crisis and keep on fucking it up because their sense of urgency is miscalibrated
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Of course the number of people going to the hospital *right now* is much lower than the number of people finding out they're infected *right now* Because the people going to the hospital right now are a subset of the people who found out they were infected *several days ago*
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Thank you. My stat knowledge is rusty and I'm horrible at explaining exponential increase and stay lags
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Jesus I don’t understand how we are so far along in this pandemic and people don’t get this BASIC FUCKING POINT
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