
Originally Posted by
GeoFisher
statistics can show ANYTHING you want.
you have to perform some basic normalization to account for testing or the lack of testing.
We continue to push a narrative that the world is ending and that COVID is the worst thing in the history OF our world, yet it isn't.
I wish we would simply stop producing these ******** statistical reports.
CASE load and CASES and DEATHS are all I care about. Positivity rate is so freaking fake and arbitrary.
* Had we had 500 million tests to administer a year ago, the positivity rate would be OUT OF THE WORLD........
* Had we been consistently testing.....CONSISTENTLY testing we would see very little variance in positivity rate.
People are too stupid to understand that.
We should be statistically norming the testing based off of testing last year, not the ABSOLUTE number, because we are testing more.
I don't buy the positivity rates, and I also don't buy the testing statistics. Hell, half the tests are not producing positive outcomes when they are taken in the first place.