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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]According to trumpet idiot antivaxers we should all be dead

2021 trumpets said anyone vaccinated would be dead in Two years .

Given those morons who did not vax died at a higher rate and clearly two years we all still on this board typing away.

Winning is glorious

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And according to the covidians, we should all be dead from covid or post-covid complications. Or, at least, civilization should have collapsed as hospitals and morgues overflowed and long Covid left people unable to work.

It turns out a lot of people are incredibly bad at understanding risk.[/quote]

But Brookings says an estimated 4 million people are unable to work due to long Covid. That’s not insignificant. So those 4 million people don’t matter to you? Just because you can’t see the impact of Covid in your delusional little bubble doesn’t mean there isn’t an impact on innocent people.[/quote]

Does 4 million people being "unable to work" due to long COVID seem like a plausible number to you? It should have at least given you enough pause to re-read the Brookings claim. It estimated that 2-4 million had their work "impacted." And beyond that, their methodology was hardly rigorous, basing it on self-reported data that didn't adjust for the high rate of "long covid" symptoms that can't be attributed to covid. And combining data from different studies that used different selection criteria, greatly increasing the risk of compounding error.

You don't need to look far to find a study with very different conclusions-- a slightly more formal follow-up study by the Brookings Institute:
How Much is Long COVID Reducing Labor   Force Participation? Not Much (So Far)

"Decomposing our total estimate into the effect of long COVID and the effect of remote work, we estimate that about 420,000 workers ages 16-64 likely left the labor force because of long COVID, with a reasonable range of 281,000 to 683,000 (0.2% to 0.4% of the labor force)."[/quote]

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