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[eve11]

XKCD is on point, yet again

(My advisor, who is a pretty famous statistician, called that the "inter-ocular acuity test". Eg, it hits you right between the eyes.)

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[wolfy_writing]

Yeah, that is not complicated.

[eve11]

If I were going to be pedantic, I would argue that the statistics went into the experimental design that produced that chart. But the point is taken :)

[profrobert]

Nonetheless, I'd like more information about the statistics for these issues: How long does the vaccine provide immunity? How much more or less persistent is the vaccine than the antibodies already existing in recovered patients? I keep reading that antibodies dissipate after three months. A) This is false, as I have antibodies eight months later, and B) if I'm an outlier who should not be counted (like Spiders Georg), then won't ordinary mortals have to get vaccinated every three months?

I'm pretty scientifically literate for a lay person, and no one seems to be addressing these points.

[singe]

I'd gladly take the vaccine every damn day if I had to. I do NOT want Covid.