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Old 09-10-2020, 15:24   #35
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Re: Coronavirus

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Originally Posted by papa smurf View Post
The truth wouldn't frighten the gullible and little children would it.
This is fair to an extent, the experts look at the number but have in their head "5% of those are false positives, 15% of those would have died anyway etc" (these are made up numbers)

So they can make some educated decision. The public just see the number and go "AAAAH BIG DEATH NUMBER".
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