Here’s an argument for why this may not *entirely* be due to holiday gift buyinghttps://twitter.com/nick_beauchamp/status/1473555762110767109?s=21 …
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blue line: daily COVID cases in the USA red line: bad reviews of Yankee Candles on Amazon saying "they don't have any scent" sources: google and https://twitter.com/nick_beauchamp/status/1473509106187223043?s=21 …pic.twitter.com/8U2XkH0RT4
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I’m not a statistician by the way, my research is very far removed from empiricism. Professionally I have no idea what the explanation is, but I do know it’s darkly funny regardless
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Omfg
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the correlation is quite something isn’t it!
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oh no not again
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Is this a correlation or an amazing coincidence? I'm pro-vax and not a COVID denier but for there to be a such a correlation between people who buy Yankee candles and can't smell them and COVID distribution across the whole USA seems outlandish
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The scales don’t match, so it’s not nearly as silly as it looks, but it doesn’t surprise me that when COVID cases skyrocket we see more people losing their sense of smell and thinking it’s the candle not them
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Given tests may be missing stuff now too with omicron... Yeeeps.
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Iirc this will be almost all Delta (the expected going indoors for winter and Thanksgiving travel induced wave); Omicron is more bronchial, less nasal
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is one of the symptoms
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