I'm...not good at math. So it was with some interest that I read this about why America is having such bad Covid numbers in the Omicron surge, compared to other G20 countries. If we compare 95% vaccination rates with 85% rates, we instinctively think that it is only a 10% difference, because we count up from zero. In fact, we count down from 100 and that means 85% is three times worse than 95%, so we see health outcomes that are three times worse.
Meanwhile, we have batshit insane actions like Iowa's, where they've decided to solve Covid by simply not counting how many cases they have. Oh, and they will shut down the website telling people where to get the vaccine.
America is a society that is perfectly fine with killing each other, either with an overabundance of guns or rampant viruses. But the truly important thing is that no one teaches kids that racism is bad.
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