Covid.....scary, huh? A
Penn State "
Researcher" writes an article about a study the USDA did on white tailed deer having Covid in "
Iowa". "A whopping
80% of the deer in "Iowa" had COVid", according to Penn State research. But then, her article says the Covid numbers "
increased" to 33%........Now. It's been many, many year since I have been in school, but to me, if you have 80% and your numbers went up, then that might mean they went up to 90%, maybe? Last time I checked, 33% was much, much lower than 80%. Notice they don't say
HOW MANY deer were sampled. Percentage numbers mean absolutely nothing without a base to compare it to.
So, I look that story up, because the numbers look kinda wonky in Penn States article. I found another "article", written by a "
journalist" that said the numbers were 33% in
IOWA. Still scary, huh?
So, then I thought: I'll go look at the group who actually did the study and see what they have to say. Amazing how "facts" can get so quickly skewed by journalists copying and pasting something they found on facebook or some other Brandon media outlet. I went to the USDA site and looked there. Damn, you almost wouldn't recognize the same story. Not only did they say how many deer were sampled, they explained where the sampling was done and what their studies actually revealed. It was actually a 4 state area, Iowa wasn't even involved and it was spread out across 32 counties. The real clincher was their final findings. Their finding are what smart people have already figured out or knew to begin with. Deer formed anti-bodies (just like humans do) when exposed and none of them had any signs of COVID.
Lesson learned? Believe absolutely no studies "Coming out of a research university". They have no clue and didn't even do their own homework. They copied and pasted and thought they were smart enough to fudge the story numbers so they could get more readers, based off of fear mongering. Remember, their researchers are mostly Zoomers who don't even know what binary sex they are, have over $100,000 of debt they are accumulating and will never live long enough to pay it off.