Odds and Ends — 14 April 2021

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Yeah, that meme could possibly be seen as an example of how to lie with statistics. In a pie chart, People Who Died During WW2 would be a little sliver compared to People Who Didn’t Die During WW2.

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Want to point out the lopsided cases in Covid chart. I think of it as a positive with that chart because it did not spread to the entire population, But do not get me wrong, I am in no way defending how USA reacted to the outbreak. There are things the country is doing that is down right breaking the rights this country stands for. Deeply disturbed by some of these things.

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Imagine the amount of infected there would if not for the sane and careful folk swearing masks and distancing! Just proves even humanity can stupid their way through this as long as big pharma's production/progress doesn't get outpaced by virus evolution

Another day in the life as people are going to people!

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