I am not using a strawman argument at all. Did you even read the article? The reason I posted was that you clearly misunderstood the stats. Vaccinated and unvaccinated are not getting sick, being put in ICU, or dying at the same rate. I did not post propaganda; you are just choosing to view it as such.>>Actually the opposite is the case
You're using straw man on me my friend. Did you read my text? I said people with and without the vaccine are getting sick, infected, at the same rate. Then I said there is some protection against hospitalization and death, but not much. Pasting in a couple page of propaganda was unecessary. 90% of the population is vaccinated. 75% of the dead were vaccinated. So obviously - as I said - there is some protection against death from vaccination - if not, it would be 90% of the dead vaccinated.
The point is, the CDC and New York Times, Biden, Trump, and many others have repeatedly lied and said you will not get sick or hospitalized with the vaccine. In fact just today my copy of the NY Times said "vaccination immunizes you, for a long time, against serious illness". That's simply not true. The vaccines offer PARTIAL immunity - they're PARTIALLY effective.
This is what I said -see below - and my point stands - 90% of the population vaccinated. 85% of those hospitalized got the vaccine. This vaccine sucks! It barely does shit - any impartial observer can see that from the data. As pharmaceutical products go, this one has poor efficacy. And it's dangerous as hell - one of my friends dropped dead in their 50's, after getting the shot of a massive heart attack. No prior signs of heart disease whatsoever. Several other friends were bedridden with severe joint pain, fever and vomiting, enough to miss work for 1-3 days.
>>About 400,000 cases in the vaccinated population, 55,000 in the "unvaccinated" population. So almost no protection at all from contracting Covid. Of those hospitalized, 85% of them were vaccinated, so only a slight benefit from vaccination. 75% of the deaths were among the vaccinated - so a higher degree of protection there from the vaccine - but still 3/4 of the dead had the shots.
Btw, no one has said you will not get hospitalised, sick, or even die, if you get the vaccine, just that your chances of surviving or becoming very ill are vastly improved with the vaccine.
Anyway posts like yours are the reason I don't bother much with speakers corner any more.
Australia is 90% vaccinated. If the vaccine wasn't working you would expect that deaths and ICU cases would be 90%. They aren't. In addition, most of the cases are omicron, and whilst Australians are 90% double vaxxed, the same can't be said for booster shots, which are needed vs omicron. Booster shots would likely reduce those numbers in ICU, and the death rate.
So, just to repeat from the article, since no one reads more that a few paragraphs;
Between November 26 and January 8, 215 double-vaccinated people were admitted to intensive care, compared with 55 unvaccinated people, according to a recent COVID-19 surveillance report.
But those 215 people make up less than 0.1 per cent of fully vaccinated COVID-19 cases recorded in that period, while the 55 make up about 1.5 per cent of unvaccinated cases.
That might not sound like a big difference, but it's like a 1 in 1,000 chance of being admitted to intensive care if you're double vaccinated, versus a 15 in 1,000 chance if you're unvaccinated.
In other words, if you contract COVID-19, you're 15 times more likely to end up in ICU if you aren't vaccinated.
(link to article in my earlier post)
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