CurrentBias

joined 1 year ago
[–] CurrentBias@kbin.social 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)
[–] CurrentBias@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The vaccine does not stop covid

It does.

Just nitpicking this part, cause you are correct about the rest -- not even the CDC claims that the vaccines prevent infection. "The primary goal of the COVID-19 vaccination program is to prevent severe illness and death" and "symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection," not asymptomatic infection (which is far from harmless)

[–] CurrentBias@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Yet disabilities keep climbing, right in step with warnings about covid's long-term effects: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU00074597

[–] CurrentBias@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

From September 2022:

The number of reported Covid cases is currently a quarter of what it was at its peak last winter. But Chris Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, estimates that only 4% to 5% of infections are being reported, because so many are uncovered through at-home tests and aren't reported to public health departments, or they aren't being detected at all.

The decline in PRC testing and a shift to at-home tests also leaves public health officials increasingly flying blind with regard to the spread of infections because few at-home test results are reported to public health departments, unlike with laboratory tests.

[–] CurrentBias@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

You missed that it was about the efficacy of mask mandates, not masks themselves

[–] CurrentBias@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not to speak for @jerome, but they were originally talking about the topics appearing in the trending news, which implies that they are referring to firefish.social's federation/lack of defederation from problematic instances, not the software itself