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“The virus will be there as long as there are NUMBERS that they have been telling us every day for half a year, every morning, every night. […] WE CANNOT GIVE THEM A NUMBER! If they don’t have those numbers, YOU CAN’T DO ANYTHING! Stop going to test, ”urges the author of the Facebook post.
Photo of 15min / Misleading publication on the social network
More than 2,000 people shared a registry full of misleading information and dangerous calls for a possible epidemiological situation in the country in less than a day. users of social networks, which means that its diffusion is several times higher.
The author appears to be aware of misleading readers by admitting at the end of the post that he expects the attention of fact-checkers.
The record is based on the premise that the main problem is not the spread of the disease, but the “numbers”, that is, the positive tests for COVID-19. The virus is assumed to be present as long as there are positive COVID-19 tests. Such a logical argument recalls no sequencer logical error.
According to the author, if COVID-19 testing is stopped, the pandemic will disappear. It would be equally logical to say that failing pregnancy tests will lower birth rates.
15min photo / How to strengthen immunity to information?
Why are tests necessary?
Coronavirus testing is not done to generate statistics but to provide data-driven conclusions. Head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared another fightthat the spread of the disease can only be stopped by destroying the chain of disease transmission.
Without knowing who is sick and who is not, it is not possible to do so, which is why the COVID-19 test is one of the key tools for disease prevention. PSO Y European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) According to the data, patients with the disease, whether or not they have symptoms, may be carriers of the disease, so the tests allow managing the outbreak of the disease.
US National Institutes of Health (NIH) According to the researchers, the tests can reduce the number of deaths from coronavirus, prevent the spread of the disease to asymptomatic people, control outbreaks in vulnerable communities and accelerate the transmission of diseases related to COVID-19.
Asymptomatic according to “healthy”
“The number of infected people increases as it is checked. However, ladies and gentlemen, when I say infected, do not in any way confuse the number of infected with the number of sick. Is not the same. Most of those infected are completely healthy people ”, explains the author of the post.
It can only be said that the number of “infected” people is increasing due to the fact that the population is being tested whether COVID-19 tests cause people to become infected. However, this is not the case about we have written Y earlier.
The author tries to differentiate between people with coronavirus and “infected” people or those who do not have symptoms. The problem is that people who show no symptoms but test positive are not “healthy.”
Cases of this type are divided into two groups: presymptomatic (ang. presymptomatic) ir besimptomius (ang. asymptomatic). In the first case, the person who is sick does not feel any symptoms, but will eventually feel them, and in the second case, it is a person who carries the virus and does not present any symptoms.
Tomas Markelevičius / 15min photo / COVID-19 point in Radviliškis
As we mentioned earlier, in both cases, people can infect other people. For example, A study was conducted in South Korea showed that people who did not experience symptoms of COVID-19 had the same amount of virus from the disease that causes disease in the nose, throat and lungs. The absence of symptoms does not mean that the disease cannot be transmitted.
Conspiracy plan
The narrative record is used to construct narratives of a “fake and bloated” pandemic. The author of the publication does not hide this: a reproduction mark is added to the end of the text “plandemic“It shows the attitude of the author that a pandemic is planned that will affect the world.
An online website full of misinformation about the term we wrote the movie in may. At the time, no proponents of conspiracy theories have so far provided evidence that a coronavirus outbreak is planned.
Calling a coronavirus outbreak “bloated” is difficult. According to the latest data, COVID-19 has infected 33 million people since the start of the pandemic. people, 24 million. recovered and almost 1 million. died. The World Health Organization (WHO) predictsthat the disease is likely to require at least 2 million. lives.
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During the last day in Lithuania 90 new cases of coronavirus were detected, the total number of cases in the country is 4385. Currently, 1948 people are still infected by coronavirus and 2327 have recovered. A total of 91 people have died since COVID-19 and 19 people have died from other causes.
Self-protection instinct
According to American psychologists, conspiracy theories serve three functions – Helps cope with fear of the unknown, gives a sense of security and control, and helps create a sense of community. Conspiracy theories provide simple answers to complex problemsThey create a sense of security in an unpredictable world.
Therefore, in the belief that “they” set the exact dates when the quarantine will be announced, peace and security are sought. The reality, in which there is no certainty of when and if the quarantine will be announced, is not convenient.
Reuters / Scanpix Photo / A man in London launches a 5G network to expand the 5G network next to a border announcing a COVID-19 pandemic
Belief in conspiracy theories is not specific to race, gender, age, education, or income group. However, different “theories” are often supported by different groups of people. The more a person identifies with one or another group, the more a lie is believed.
Reliable sources
Representatives of the information space monitoring institutions and SAM advise not to use social networks as the only source of information and to be especially skeptical about any information published in the comments.
It encourages the selection of data from official institutions, reliable media and the monitoring of the origin of the information. The onset of the coronavirus pandemic has sparked a wave of misleading information, sometimes deliberately promoted by foreign countries.
Official information on COVID-19 is provided by Ministry of Health (SAM), Center for Communicable Diseases and AIDS (ULAC), World Health Organization (WHO), National Center for Public Health, European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
The post was prepared in 15 minutes. in collaboration with Facebook a program to stop the spread of misleading news on the social network. More about the program and its rules – here.
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