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Tue Apr 28 05:28:11 +0000 2020

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Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

Testing is not like a political opinion poll. The people who get tested are already expressing symptoms (fever and cough). So what we can say is that, of a sample of half a million people who seem likely to be infected, 28% are, indeed, infected by Coronavirus. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 28, 2020

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Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

James, you make multiple errors and have faulty assumptions. I'll highlight them, not to "dunk on you," since you're my friend, but in hopes that we can think more clearly about this matter. (I'll accept your first set of numbers.) — PolitiTweet.org

James Edwards @JamesEdwardsTPC

Just announced in the UK: 20,000 dead 520,000 tested 150,000 tested positive Extrapolating to the entire populat… https://t.co/e3SnWML1Rc

Posted April 28, 2020

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Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

You're assuming that, since 28% of this not-at-all-random sample is infected, 28% of the population at large is infected. That is not sound reasoning. A much small percentage of the population is likely infected. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 28, 2020

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