A funny story of a doctor from the "covid is end of the world" cult @meganranney, telling us a lot about who actually are "the experts" and the media ignorance >>
In an interview in CNN, she claimed that half (!) of the covid deaths now are young adults 18-35 of age
(1:55). That's of course because they are not vaccinated enough
https://twitter.com/TheLeadCNN/status/1390436884409638914?s=19

Needless to say, the suited, well brushed host didn't question any of that.
But some people did.
e.g. journalist @AlexBerenson https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1390679738868506626?s=19
So she replied to him: https://twitter.com/meganranney/status/1390679763015114754?s=19
A priori, I'd say that if somebody tell me that half of deaths in some geriatric disease are young adult, I'd check it thousands times before stating that. That makes her completely clueless about the disease she is talking about in such a self confidence.
Or she knew and nevertheless said that. What's called in Israel "shitat matzliach". You try. If if work, good, else correct yourself. Worst case, no harm done. https://www.haaretz.com/word-of-the-day-shitat-matzliach-1.5166582
But she wrote that she corrected herself so I went to check what she actually wrote.

Here it is: https://twitter.com/meganranney/status/1390629842887000070?s=19
https://twitter.com/meganranney/status/1390682405783080962?s=19
Do you get it?

She confused deaths with cases.
Half of the CASES are young people.

How it comes? Prior to interview she Google the numbers.

That what the covid "experts" do. When they tell you something, it's based on Google.
Just like you can do.
usually most of the CASES are young people. Because there are more of them and they have more interactions. There is nothing new about that and nothing that should bother us.
She tries to mix things up:
they are most of cases (as usual, M. H.) , and in increasing proportion of deaths (maybe) , "little less than half (not even close. M. H., see Berenson's board above)
And they are not even slightly bothered by the idea that half of the death in this geriatric disease are young adults. They based a theory on it: "of course, it's due to vaccination rates"...
i. e. not only the don't know the current data, they don't even have a context of how this disease/pandemic behaves. You can tell them that yesterday people were blown up in flames by covid, and they'd be like "OK, if Google says so"...

Science. Expertise. My ass
Her apology reminds me a joke:
The chief consultant of the Sultan, told him that sometimes the apology is worse than the deed itself.
The Sultan wondered "how it can be?".
"wait and see", replied the consultant. >>
The other day, when they were strolling around in the garden, the consultant raised his hand and spanked the Sultan's ass.
The Sultan raged: "what the F*** was it? "
Consultant: "sorry, my king, I confused you with your wife"...
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