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I'm not sure your math is right or it's right but not really telling the right story
1000 may only be 0.0015% of the population but you would still expect close to 7.6% of that 1000 to have caught covid.
It is entirely possible that 0% of a 1000 sample not have had covid but the odds would be extremely low.
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I didn't realise this wasn't rhetorical.
Apart from debunking the meme generator (64000 did not die of flu in the winter 2017/2018) you need to explain the percentages for the covid denial "I don't know anyone that caught it" (and I hope my maths is right because it's how I explain it)
TLDR you don't know as many people as you think you do.
5160000 cases in the UK = 7.6% of the population.
If they have 1000 friends inc social media that is only 0.0015% of the population. If their friends are also covid deniers they probably won't get a pcr test if they felt ill anyway, so it's quite probable they don't know someone who has been diagnosed with covid.
Increasing it to 1 degree of seperation: 1000 different friends of freinds each is 1'000'000 people which is still only 1.5% of the population.
So you can see how there are plenty of people who don't know anyone who has had covid, but also how few people they actually know compared to the complete picture. 67 million people could have covid and it still be statistically possible that nobody in your 1 degree of seperation have it.
Does that make sense? Of my covid denying contacts nobody has called me out on it. I was getting whataboustism in reply (usually memeXcore research) but it has been slowly diminishing - maybe they're just not engaging with me but I'd like to think I've made a difference.
I get very anxious about posting stuff like this and I don't intend to mislead anyone, so I'm happy to take it down if it's just plain wrong.