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• bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes if you’re including the entire population which is not how stats works as his demographic is exponentially more at risk than many others (age, onset of pneumonia, etc)

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  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    I admit I am not a stats guy. Please tell me what I did wrong in my math. Totally open to being corrected here.

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    • bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You don’t just take the entire population and calculate the odds that they will contract and/or die of something. For instance, I could trivialize bike injuries/deaths in the US because countless people do not commute regularly on their bikes. The stat is only useful when discussing how many regular cyclists get hurt.

      MRSA affects more specific demographics and conditions. Somebody who is older who contracts pneumonia and enters a hospital is far more likely than the regular population to contract it - and it has a 10-20% lethality which is extremely high - so their risk has to be assessed in that context.

      If we only compared it against the general population, then hospitals would simply go “well in the grand scheme of things not many people die of MRSA.“ When what they’re (correctly) saying is “if you are elderly and have pneumonia we need to really watch out for MRSA.” Because that is a real risk.

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      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ok can you give me an actual number?

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• OpenStars@discuss.online ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We do ourselves no favors by sounding like conspiracy nutjobs who are uninterested in facts. When they go low, we should retain the high road, imho.

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  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah yeah I suck, get in line and take a number. Now, will attacking me bring those two murdered men back to life?

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    • OpenStars@discuss.online ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I apologize for my wording - I agree with you that I was out of line. There was some point I was trying to make, about the need to be cautious with our wording, but somehow I ended up doing the exact thing I was trying to warn about, didn’t I? Anyway, sorry.

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      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You good. Enjoy your weekend

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