[Covid Adjacent] Ugh. This is going to be great.

First man to get Covid jab William Shakespeare dies ...

Dies of unrelated illness, since it got cut off.

But I'm already seeing people talking about how that means you shouldn't get the vaccine and it's like...if nothing else, he was 81.

dude was 81

yeah I've seen a lot of "death rates are higher for people who got the jab!" and it's like yes, because we vaccinated 80+ y/os first, no shit

Somebody linked that the first person in Sweden also died recently.

She was 92.

I'm a bad person because my instant thought was "who cares, dude hasn't written anything new in like 400 years"

6LilacMimeLions : He was actually supposed to be the first person over all to get the jab, but I think traffic meant he didn't get there in time for the first jab. But there's also some thought that Johnson wanted him to be first because he's working on releasing a biography of Shakespeare.

(You know. In all the spare time he has from supposedly running the country.)

but in all seriousness, shit like this is why we need to teach statistics/critical thinking early

yeah like uh

he was already pretty old

people are more likely to die the older they get simply on probability

yeah