NORMALLY, fake news, disinformation and cognitive dissonance irritate me. It is bad enough that they affect people’s intelligence and judgment. However, with Covid-19, when they affect people’s lives, then that is evil. For me, whether through ignorance, prejudice, sloth or malevolence, it cannot be tolerated as just a difference of opinion as lives are in peril and the well-being of the people and country are at risk. It is sad when these peddlers are so blind or bigoted that they cannot or refuse to see how malevolent and mendacious their sources are or in the rare event they quote a mainstream source, they strain the context where a circle becomes a rectangle that is obvious to anyone with an average IQ. There is no delusion greater than self-delusion as anyone who knows the story of the emperor’s new clothes can attest. People should not die for a lie.

Corollary to that, I suspect very few people actually understand what the efficacy rate of a vaccine means. Many, including Covid deniers and anti-vaxxers, think it is the percentage that are protected or not. Many erroneously think a 95-percent and 75-percent efficacy rate means 5 percent or 30 percent will get infected or not be protected. Not so as it is more complicated.

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