I have seen the grumblings in Social Media about the alleged danger of the vaccine, and when the numbers come out, they usually reflect such a miniscule number you simply go ahead and dismiss the whole shebang. Some people, no matter what, will always will throw snake eyes when it comes to a medication or a vaccine.
So I was more than surprised when I see this out of the NY Post.
As many as 246 Michigan residents who were “fully vaccinated” against COVID-19 later tested positive for the deadly bug — including three who have died, according to a new report.
The group — whose cases were reported between Jan. 1 and March 31 — tested positive at least two weeks after receiving the last dose of the inoculation, a health official told the Detroit News.
I read the whole article and noticed something missing: The total number of Citizens of Michigan that had received both shots so I could make a determination of the gravity of the issue. And of course, I could not find it in the article, so I had to do a little bit of GoogleFu.
One Point Nine Five Million people in Michigan have had both shots. But we are subjected to the “horrifying news” that 246 recipients (0.0014%) still got infected and three of them (0.000015%) died. I believe the statistical term is called a “blip.”
Why this sudden need to portray danger coming out of the vaccine? Is it because people are starting to question the need to continue the Social Distancing and mask protocols? If we have been immunized, why are restaurants and bars not open? Why I can’t go to Disneyland?
A questioning populace always spells trouble for the Powers That Be.
Yes, there is.
Or at least not “useless” but “not enough”.
You know, these pesky mutations keep popping up and I would not be surprised if they start spreading the narrative that even though you’re vaccinated you should stay at home or else you would strain the vaccination. Scientific bullshit but hey, when did they care about science? 😀
Hey remember last year when some people were questioning the need to disinfect everything every 10 minutes or we’d all die? And those people got called “anti-science”?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9441153/CDC-tells-schools-businesses-end-hygiene-theater.html
Funny, that.
You need to “Mask Up” and “Social Distance” forever, and have a “Vaccine Passport” as well. Like gun control, virus control is all about the control, not so much about a virus.
That’s a bingo.
Given the reported 98% or so efficacy of the vaccines, an 0.0014% infection rate is way, WAY below the expected number. That means (a) the actual efficacy is way better than the estimates from the trial suggest, and (b) herd immunity is imminent if not already present.
The problem with the mRNAs are multitude. No human testing until now (I counsel my moderate risk patients to wait for the J&J vax and low risk patients to skip); mRNA vaccinations do not seem to be a sterilizing one – could make the virus worse; more serious side effects already reported than seen with previous standard yearly ‘flu vaccinations’ and far fewer mRNA vaccines given.
Several spot-on write ups at https://market-ticker.org.
I agree with DMLMD: It is sadly, like my “new car Rule”, first introduced to me by an old EMS partner, long, long, long ago: Let somebody else work the bugs out of the BRAND! NEW! TOTALLY1 IMPROVED1 vehicle, for a couple of years, before you by one, yourself.
Only, instead of service call headaches, it’s people’s lives.
Tested positive for COVID-19, and actually having COVID-19 are two very different things.
Death from COVID-19? That always redlines my BS meter. These people probably had one foot in the grave already. Testing at positive for COVID at the time of your death does not make COVID the cause of death. (Any more than testing positive for a common STD would make that the cause of death.)
However, the point is absolutely spot on. The more fear the general population has, the more control the politicians can exert, and more eyeballs are on screens, making the media happy. Dr. Attentionwhore Fauci is in danger of retreating to the shadows and he cannot allow that to happen.
Best way to keep the roller coaster moving is to make people afraid the virus will still kill you even after you are fully vaccinated.
It’s a general pattern. Government programs never solve a problem — they can’t, because that would put the bureaucrats out of a job. Instead, they make the problem worse, and then when it’s revealed that this happened, the fact it’s worse is used as “evidence” that a bigger budget and more parasites, err., civil servants are needed. (Jefferson put it well: “Swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance”.) The “War on Drugs” and “War on Poverty” are classic examples.
The same sort of thing is at work here. If the pandemic were over that would put a whole lot of people with no useful skills out of their sinecure jobs, and moreover would let the people realize once again that they are free. These are not things to be permitted.
They may be trying to sell fear. What they are doing is convincing the public not to bother getting vaccinated.