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[–]StillLessons 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

He has WAY overplayed these numbers. I find the adverse events on these shots to be extremely alarming and believe the shots should be de-certified yesterday, but in order to make our case, we need to be careful to portray accurate information, and Nagase has absolutely failed that test here.

Almost immediately after noting that the total number of shots has been redacted from the report (which in and of itself is a red flag; why redact that?!), Nagase then within the next minute starts making comments like "31% of people have either died or had a long-term or permanent side-effect from getting the injection." That is a patently false statement, because the total number of shots given is not known, and the percentage he calculated is the percentage of the adverse events. There are ~42,000 adverse events listed in this report, of which 31% are long-term or permanent, including death. That is an accurate statement of the data. But he explicitly confuses this percentage as being the percentage of the total number of shots given, which is simply not the case.

Again, this is not meant as a defence of Pfizer, Moderna, or J&J. The adverse event profiles of these shots are horrific. But it doesn't help matters to put out information like this which is so easy to dismiss. Unfortunately, when critics can dismiss poor analysis like this, then they are all-too willing to dismiss far more serious analyses which avoid these mistakes and continue to show that these shots are a fucking disaster area.

We need to keep our critical-thinking skills sharp. Videos like this one are traps we need to avoid falling into.

[–]zyxzevn[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)