Frankly, X's statistics-reading ability is flawed. He tries to make judgements about issues based on selective information that confirms his biases and that may or may not be correct, but that often is incomplete and/or taken out of context … and which - in the first place - is about science he doesn’t understand, science which none of us can understand, since we are not studied, graduated specialists in those fields.
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And since we're talking about mis-information:
Here is a document from the UK government. A country where they are currently discussing 3rd doses right now for people because why?!? They don’t fucking work! (You can also research countries such as Israel on their 3rd jabs)
Yes, many countries are considering 3rd jabs, for you to deduct from that fact that, "they don’t fucking work!" is tragically wrong. Israel.
A good source of information is The Conversation (academic rigour, journalistic flair); they know how to analyse science and statistics.
Why are we seeing more COVID cases in fully vaccinated people? "Vaccines are doing exactly what they’re supposed to do - protecting us from severe disease and death."
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What is the take-away with all this?
We have no idea how much we don’t know (famously, there are known unknowns, but the real problem are the unknown unknowns). How do we overcome this lack of knowledge? By not doing our own research … because - in a complex case like CoViD - we just don’t know what we are looking at and instead should listen to those who do.
I’ve said it before: I feel terribly, terribly sorry for anyone who lives in a country where they can’t trust their government. Of course we always question what they’re doing (that’s what we have the Fourth Estate for, the independent media) … and by just turning on the evening news (SBS World News), we can see how lucky we are with the government we have, in comparison to most other countries.
What is the bottom line? Where to now? (I’m glad you got this far.) Are you still sitting on the fence? Stop it! And do not do any more research. Just turn on the news and listen to the government health officials, who have studied this stuff all their lives; who - as part of their work - listen to an untold amount of specialists (specialists in the fields of epidemiology, immunology and public health) and who are in the position to analyse and interpret the science.
Get vaccinated; it’s safe and the right thing to do. If this goes against what you've been talking about with your friends, don’t tell them; just do it. Set yourself free.
Says Kerri Sackville in the Herald: "Reject the anti-vacc rot ...
"As the uncontroversial evidence grows that vaccines save lives, as doctors plead for people to get vaccinated, as COVID-19 becomes a pandemic of the unvaccinated, anti-vax sentiment is indefensible. Tolerance and kindness do have limits. When we extend tolerance to everyone, even those doing harm, we end up undermining our own freedoms and wellbeing. We cannot tolerate intolerance ... and we cannot tolerate anti-vax sentiment, as this leads directly and incontrovertibly to disease and death."
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I have blogged a fair bit about CoViD:
1155 Inquiry into CoViD
Cross Party Inquiry on the Australian
Government’s Response to COVID-19
1147 CoViD Fake News
Mis-information and Dis-information:
What's the difference?
1144 No Mandates ?
Say No To Vaccine Mandates ...
Really ?
1140 Vaccine or poison?
Are medicines, like the CoViD vaccines, poison?
Of course they are!
1127 CoViD deaths in the US
CoViD is a leading cause of death in the US.
But guess who's dying the most?
1126 "I did my own research."
Doing your own research may have
consequences beyond your expectations
1122 Jacqui Lambie says it like it is
The nation listened, when
Jacqui Lambie said it like it is
1121 No Vacc, Yes Covid
Alan Kohler says it like it is:
Not vaccinated?
You'll get immunity by contracting CoViD.
If you survive.
1120 CoViD Vacc Wrongs
CoViD Vacc Conspiracy Wrongs
1114 The last Anti-vaccer's Dream
a satire by Paul McDermott
1113 Joe Rogan
Joe Rogan has lost his mind
1107 CoViD Facts and their Sources
Three people to listen to about CoViD
and vaccinations
1105 NO VACCINE - NO SERVICE
Finally: The authorities may wise up
1104 What is it like to get CoViD?
What does it actually feel like when you have Covid?
1098 We're all gonna die ...
Here we have it: A conspiracy theorist proves to us that we're all gonna die, unless we believe his nutty nonsense and don't get vaccinated!@#$%^&*(
1091 CoViD Anti- and Non-Vaccing
Taking the Red Pill on CoViD vaccine Redux