People who believe COVID-19 misinformation are more likely to contract the virus

a reply to: MDDoxs

All I know is, my brother-in-law had covid recently and spent several days in intensive care. They wanted to intubate him and he said definitely not. He took Hydroxychloroquine prior to going to hospital and ended up recovering. His wife and my 94-year-old mother that lives with him also got on Hydroxi, and both of them realized little or virtually no symptoms.

I am 71 and have been smearing Ivermectin paste into my skin for the duration of this plandemic and, so far, have avoided covid even though I go to the grocery stores and Chinamart regularly, maskless and don't bother sanitizing every time I touch a pushcart.

If this government had actually followed science, this plandemic would have been over even before it started.

For everyone that does believe the government, takes all the required shots, wears the masks and sanitizing their entire bodies, thank you for protecting me from this contrived plandemic.

originally posted by: MDDoxs

There are many important findings from this research, but the most critical one may be related to misinformation regarding COVID-19. We had administered a brief quiz regarding the virus. Individuals with more accurate knowledge were far less likely to have contracted COVID-19. Moreover, additional analyses revealed that accurate knowledge was the primary mechanism mediating the impact of many other beliefs and personal characteristics on the likelihood of contracting the virus. For example, the more trust participants reported in then-President Trump, who had downplayed the severity of the pandemic, the less accurate knowledge they had about the virus, and the more likely they were to subsequently contract the virus. The reverse was true with respect to the extent that participants reported trust in scientists.”

Article Link
Study Link in Nature

This report and study will be contentious here on ATS, so let’s try to keep it to the salient parts of the study.

From the study

This research demonstrates the importance of an individual’s beliefs and personal characteristics for predicting a critically important health outcome—whether said individual is likely to contract COVID-19. We identified several powerful predictors of contracting illness, including trust in the major sources of information about COVID-19 (e.g., scientists, the president), beliefs about the severity of the pandemic itself, personal insights about contracting the virus, and accurate knowledge about COVID-19.

Sample size was 2120 individuals. Their sample may also not have been fully representative of the US population. See limitations in methods.

I found this part of the report/article interesting, since many of us struggle with statistics and quantitative analysis.

Other research has found that people with a poor understanding of quantitative information are more likely to endorse misinformation about COVID-19. Those who believe such misinformation, in turn, are less likely to engage in preventative behaviors.

The study can say what it likes, it’s BS, as is your stance if your truly believe it. It is just another limb of the propaganda tree. You think this study proves something? Well it does, but almost the exact opposite of what you think :-)

originally posted by: trollz
Here's a compilation of videos of Trump telling people to get the vaccine. The idea that Trump is anti-vaccine or encouraging people not to get vaccinated is an absolute lie.

Nothing in the study makes conclusions on vaccination. It’s more about the likelihood of catching Covid.

That being said, Yes, trump promotes the vaccines.

People who believe the vaccines make them invincible are more like to contract and spread the virus.

Omicron is no more transmissible than any other covid strain. The Vaccinated are spreading it quicker due to the fact they are back out in the wild, maskless, and disregarding the necessary precautions you should be taking to minimize the spread, like maintaining distance and sterilizing hands, etc.

Add to that drinking from the same cup in pubs and clubs. Those vessels you drink from are simply rinsed and left to dry, rinse and repeat.

By this logic, if I had a #ing penny for every god damn time I was told if catch some variant and die a horrible death, I'd be richer than Musk.

Not sick, and still NOT catching jack # even when deliberately trying to. For something soooooo god damn infectious and easy to spread, I sure seem wholly immune at this rate. I don't even bother washing hands in public crappers anymore, OMG! But still not catching squat anywhere.

Unless you count just prior to the collective pants-#ting two years ago, then that was highly likely Covid.

originally posted by: MDDoxs

originally posted by: Salander
a reply to: MiddleInsite

They are not lazy, they are critical thinkers.

And their counterparts, the members of the Cult of Covid, are those who cannot distinguish between science and science fiction. They cannot distinguish between real scientists and snakeoil salesmen. They are credulous in the extreme.

Critical conspiratorial thinking might be more apt, which aligns with the study.

The study indicates a general lack of trust in scientists. So this aligns with your comment.

GMAFB 2,120 participants that not even a good representation of ATS, much less the whole country

#2 if they believe this “Spraying chlorine on my body will protect me even if COVID-19/the coronavirus has already entered my system.” they probably need to get out of the gene pool anyway.

#3 what were the demographics? where were they from? hell, I know lots of people on both sides that won't even participate in polls. Ergo mostly lonely and potentially nutters will even take polls

#4 Im am much more concerned by the psychiatrists and psychologists' obsession with all things OMB than a handful of misinformed conspiracy theorists.

#5 Distrust of the government in itself is a part of American human nature. Which this Pew research indicates, BTW we have been lower and it crosses party lines.

www.pewresearch.org...


#6 I could see the timing of the poll affecting the data as much as anything, if they poll while it's in a lull 4 months later there could be another wave.

In the study, U.S. residents completed a brief test of COVID-19 knowledge, which consisted of 13 true or false statements about the virus. True items included statements such as “Some individuals who have COVID-19/the coronavirus do not show any symptoms,” while false items included statements such as “Spraying chlorine on my body will protect me even if COVID-19/the coronavirus has already entered my system.” The participants also completed assessments for several other variables, including perceptions of the pandemic, faith in government, trust in scientists, conspiratorial ideation, and more.

Four months later, 2,120 participants contacted again and asked whether they had tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection or otherwise believed they had been sick with COVID-19. A total of 348 participants indicated that they had experienced COVID-19. The researchers found that the less knowledgeable the participants were about COVID-19, the more likely they were to have gotten sick.

a reply to: MDDoxs

My vaccinated husband and daughter tested positive for COVID and were symptomatic over the holidays but I and my littlest (unvaxxxxxt) didn't fearfully avoid them and also didn't get sick. Even so, out of caution, I didn't leave my home from 12/23-12/31. To quarantine when you or close family members are sick makes total sense to me.

Two vaccinated and boosted family members tested positive at the same time (brother in law and our cousin's husband) though we haven't seen each other--they got sick elsewhere.

My fully vaccinated and boosted Godfather tested positive two weeks ago.
Fully vaccinated family friend in ICU for the last 7 weeks on a ventilator.

These six people would think your pseudoscience to be ridiculous and spreading inaccurate information.

a reply to: Salander

It's called science.

originally posted by: zosimov
a reply to: MDDoxs

My vaccinated husband and daughter tested positive for COVID and were symptomatic over the holidays but I and my littlest (unvaxxxxxt) didn't fearfully avoid them and also didn't get sick. Even so, out of caution, I didn't leave my home from 12/23-12/31. To quarantine when you or close family members are sick makes total sense to me.

Two vaccinated and boosted family members tested positive at the same time (brother in law and our cousin's husband) though we haven't seen each other--they got sick elsewhere.

My fully vaccinated and boosted Godfather tested positive two weeks ago.
Fully vaccinated family friend in ICU for the last 7 weeks on a ventilator.

These six people would think your pseudoscience to be ridiculous and spreading inaccurate information.

Do yo have any evidence to back up this unsupported anecdote?

a reply to: AaarghZombies

Nope and I don't care if you don't believe me

There are certain individuals on here who would have made great SS soldiers. Propaganda anyway..not physical.

What the left cannot and will not grasp is that Trump would have loved for this vaccine to work, and would love to have mandated it, but I would have said no right to his face. I’m sure others are the same. We do not blindly follow his every word. Nobody should. His Twitter was embarrassing at times, swing and a miss on COVID, but all in all the best we’ve had in a long time.

You blindly follow their science, but they are not giving you the science. It’s just follow what we say, and don’t question it or you’re not sciency.

a reply to: Nyiah

That's the thing. I've known people who have done everything they were told and still got it. I've known people who have done nothing and still got it.

I honestly don't think COVID much cares one way or the other.

So far as I know, I have yet to get it despite not really doing much about it except taking the usual precautions I take against seasonal illness. I've had two mild colds. I guess either of them could have been COVID, but since I'm not test-obsessed, I didn't run out to find out with either one. My husband gives blood regularly, and they've never told him if he has antibodies, so we're assuming we haven't had it.

I got the initial two jabs, but have zero plans to boost. I wore masks only where and when absolutely required and have gone without everywhere else.

originally posted by: AaarghZombies

originally posted by: zosimov
a reply to: MDDoxs

My vaccinated husband and daughter tested positive for COVID and were symptomatic over the holidays but I and my littlest (unvaxxxxxt) didn't fearfully avoid them and also didn't get sick. Even so, out of caution, I didn't leave my home from 12/23-12/31. To quarantine when you or close family members are sick makes total sense to me.

Two vaccinated and boosted family members tested positive at the same time (brother in law and our cousin's husband) though we haven't seen each other--they got sick elsewhere.

My fully vaccinated and boosted Godfather tested positive two weeks ago.
Fully vaccinated family friend in ICU for the last 7 weeks on a ventilator.

These six people would think your pseudoscience to be ridiculous and spreading inaccurate information.

Do yo have any evidence to back up this unsupported anecdote?

How dare the anecdote not conform to what you prefer to believe!

originally posted by: Soloprotocol
People who believe the vaccines make them invincible are more like to contract and spread the virus.

Omicron is no more transmissible than any other covid strain. The Vaccinated are spreading it quicker due to the fact they are back out in the wild, maskless, and disregarding the necessary precautions you should be taking to minimize the spread, like maintaining distance and sterilizing hands, etc.

Add to that drinking from the same cup in pubs and clubs. Those vessels you drink from are simply rinsed and left to dry, rinse and repeat.

Believing that the vax makes you invincible and believing that the virusvax are a hoax both lead to the same behaviors. People don't socially distance, they don't wear masks and they don't avoid high risk areas or activities.

In short, they don't take basic precautions to protect themselves. Which is when you get right down to it an extremely leftist perspective because you're delegating your safety to someone or something else rather than taking responsibility for it yourself. Whether you think that the state will protect you or the vax will protect you, both are a delegation of responsibility.

In addition to this, people who believe that the vax makes them invincible clearly haven't listened to the experts or followed the science because the experts and the science were both saying that the vax reduced the danger, not illuminated it entirely, since before the vax was available to the general public.

originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Nyiah

That's the thing. I've known people who have done everything they were told and still got it. I've known people who have done nothing and still got it.

I honestly don't think COVID much cares one way or the other.

So far as I know, I have yet to get it despite not really doing much about it except taking the usual precautions I take against seasonal illness. I've had two mild colds. I guess either of them could have been COVID, but since I'm not test-obsessed, I didn't run out to find out with either one. My husband gives blood regularly, and they've never told him if he has antibodies, so we're assuming we haven't had it.

Are we sure it's Covid itself & not just a hell of a lot of people from all walks, living thus far unawares with potentially bum genetics on display at fault? I don't consider myself any pinnacle of healthful living, but somehow, my immune system is knocking it out of the park while the healthy crumble.

This is WELL worth considering & investigating further.

a reply to: AaarghZombies

I love it!

If you don't conform precisely to the preferred belief and attitude and behavior, then you either believe the vaccine makes you invincible or you believe the virus does not exist. There is no middle ground. It must be some type of option that absolutely has make the other person the biggest moron imaginable because you are pretty sure you're the smartest person in the room.

This might be why no one wants to be like you, sparky.