Link to the actual study: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2807617
BTW, let me add a bit to the cautions about attributing the difference in death rates entirely to Republicans’ performative dumbshittery: older people are, in general, both more likely to be Republicans and more likely to die of COVID (and also other diseases that an overloaded medical system could otherwise have helped them with), so there’s a pretty obvious confounding variable here.
On the other hand, that confounding variable applied just as much before the vacciles were available, and the difference in death rates doesn’t seem to have existed before that.
On the gripping hand, I’d expect the similar difference in performative dumbshittery WRT masks to have been around before the vaccines came out, and to have caused a difference in death rates before vaccines… but it looks like not.
I’m quite confident that these researchers are capable of controlling for other demographic factors, since that’s like data analysis 101. Considering they state the results are stratified by age, why would you think age is a confounding variable? That comment doesn’t make sense to me.
Um actually this study is dog water because they forgot to count the numbers, obviously. I saw it on the title and clearly I know better
I think the commenter didn’t notice that the analysis controlled for age through stratification. You’re right that that confounding variable is taken care of.
I think you’re right… it’s a little annoying because if I link to a study, I usually read it (or at least the results lol) and give a tl;dr. Even if you don’t do that, I’d hope you’d at least read what you’re sharing. If you’re going to give a commentary, at the bare minimum you should check your source to see if they addressed that.
The only thing more annoying than a person who thinks that correlation is always indicative of causation is the person who thinks that correlation is never indicative of causation.
On the gripping hand
Aha! OP is a motie, I knew it.
In equally shocking news, eating cheetos turns your fingers orange.
Too bad we can’t just do the US census right now.
Still sad how many people were lost to this and how many more we will lose.
Why did you comment the same thing 5 times and delete them all lol
Man, I don’t know! Tried commenting once, but it posted 5 times. Then I tried deleting 4 of them, and it deleted all 5. 🤷🏻♂️
I believe the quote goes, '‘I never thought leopards would eat MY face,’ sobs a woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party"
In other news, things that water touches becomes wet
its truly hard to feel sorry here.
I feel owned so much. It hurt me feelings. Buh…More please?
I’m crying salty liberal tears over their graves.
killing off your voters to own the libs
Evolution at work, Darwin would be pleased.
“may”
Gee, ya think?
I know why studies with seemingly obvious results like this are conducted, (sometimes the obvious answer is wrong) but the waste of money still bugs me.
Sometimes the obvious answer is wrong, but there are plenty of other reasons to run this study. Advocacy is better with real numbers backing it up, there are probably similar circumstances that are less obvious that now warrant a closer look…
A peer reviewed study (especially when the results are reproduced by another group performing the same experiments and receiving those same results) is the difference between science and anecdote.
The irony is not lost on me that the study itself is of those that rejected completely separate scientific studies, and paid with their lives in doing so.
