Man with one arm wins Super Bowl
The triumph of social Justice is complete as white supremacist loses game
It’s Super Bowl Sunday, arguably the second most American day that exists, behind only Thanksgiving (which incidentally has THREE football games!). I hope you have an amazing day so I’ll keep this short.
You no doubt read that this week, Pfizer withdrew it’s application (for now) to the FDA to give the vaccine to children under 5. Perhaps it was because 2 shots made no statistical difference to kids outcomes but instead of saying “you know what, kids will be fine!” Pfizer went the other way and added a third shot… just in cases. Of course, the data isn’t in for their trial but they proceeded anyway. Perhaps the ultimate cause of their withdrawal for approval was this headline from the New York Times of all places.
We will come back to headlines later. Me? I’m more of a data guy. Headlines are so misleading that many times, the article itself says the exact opposite thing (which is why the NYT headline was so crazy … that booster efficacy, like the original shots, had plunged and that’s exactly what the article said, too!)
Here’s what the data shows. Plotted below is COVID deaths by age (under 35) with all COVID deaths representing “1” and the rest scaling to that number- so a “9” means there were 9x more homicides, suicides and car accidents in the 15-24 group than there were COVID deaths (and that’s ignoring the “with” and “of”).
To quote Vince Vaughn in arguably the best scene in ‘Wedding Crashers’
I'm gonna go see Dr. Finklestein and I'm gonna tell him we have a whole new bag of issues. We can forget about mom for a while.
People under 35 have 99 problems and COVID ain’t one.
Oh, and that one armed man in the headline, every player on the field today has one arm…. They just happen to have the other one too. Headlines are meant to mislead you because they know most people don’t read the articles. Made you click!
Enjoy the game!