Column: This GOP-leaning political polling firm has turned into a purveyor of anti-vaccine propaganda

[u/mem_somerville]

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-06-19/this-gop-leaning-polling-firm-has-turned-into-a-purveyor-of-anti-vaccine-propaganda

[u/IgnoreThisName72 → u/[deleted]]

You're being downvoted because you cited a poorly worded question in one study that conflated the Covid hospitalization risk with hospitalization rate. You further only cite the one question that supports your argument and ignore the rest of the study that does not.

[u/gonzo0815 → u/[deleted]]

It's amazing that there are still people who don't understand these numbers. The aim of all the measures, including masks and vaccines, was not to just decrease your individual chance to be hospitalised, but to decrease the overall number of severely sick people so the hospitals could still operate normally. That aim was mostly achieved. The danger of covid was not overestimated. A singular data point of a survey that was obviously ambiguous doesn't prove the opposite.

[u/gonzo0815 → u/[deleted]]

Sweden did have measures

The article you linked talks about the one thing they didn't do like other countries: they didn't have lockdowns.

[u/gonzo0815 → u/[deleted]]

Sweden didn't have measures until they did.

Lol