for anyone who as tempted to accept the washpo poll on allegedly wearing masks vs "knowing people with covid symptoms" as "data," it may be worth examinging some other polls.

only 75% of polled people are confident they would recover from a disease with a 99.85% recovery rate...

this sort of polling data is meaningless, riddled with bias, and is really just evidence of how little anyone understands about what's going on. https://twitter.com/boriquagato/status/1319719859446550529?s=20

trying to use this sort of response data as "evidence" is like running a poll on "how often do you beat your spouse?" and then using the fact that everyone said "never!" as proof that there is no such thing as domestic violence.

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