• samus12345@lemm.ee
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    Most people can’t comprehend a difference between 0.1% and 0.0000000000000001%. It’s all just " a very small percentage."

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    About 1 in every 265 Americans has died of covid. Covid continues to account for about 1% of all deaths in the US.

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    1/1000 = 0.001 (which is 0.1%, because 1% = 0.01; like 1¢ out of $1.00).

    An easy [yet embarrassing] mistake to make, even for a “math major”.

    Let this serve as a warning to you would-be mouthpieces: reread your statements before you go putting your foot in your mouth.

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      The date on the article appears to be 9/29/2020, so Biden was not elected president yet. But even if the article came Out on 11/29/2020, Biden still wouldn’t be president; he’d be President-elect. A presidents term does not actually start (or end) until Jan 20 of the following year, after the president is sworn in. To add more dates to the confusion, the Jan 6 date was when congress was meant to certify (make official) the votes from the November election; yup, despite what CNN and all of the other news organizations say on Election Day, the votes aren’t actually certified until much later.

      Welcome to America, land of the confusing!

  • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Took me a moment but it says “election 2020” so that’s why the number is so low. Oh, and also it was before Biden’s presidency and he was vice president under Obama