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[–]StillLessons[S] 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (8 children)

Please tell me these actions I am taking? I control the spread of this virus? One of two things has happened in the time since we learned of its existence. Either I have never come in contact with it, despite all the actions you are going to tell me I am taking to ensure that I should have come into contact with it, or I have come into contact with it, my innate immune system killed it, and did this so effectively that none of the other people I know ever came down with it either. In either case, I haven't spread the virus. What are these actions I should not be doing?

[–]Daddiescummies 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

I just found out that over 99% of the people dying from COVID now are unvaccinated.

So feel free to not get a vaccine.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

[–]StillLessons[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Very interesting article. Thanks.

[–]Daddiescummies 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Yeah that's the interesting thing, the two findings are in conflict. The US, both pharmaceutical companies and the CDC have a history of ... massaging ... if outright fabricating is too strong a term, pharmaceutical data. I'm less inclined to take it at face value.

[–]Daddiescummies 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

They aren't: In the US, most of the population is vaccinated, which means vaccinations are equally distributed among vulnerable (mainly elderly) and less vulnerable. In the UK, most of the vaccinated population is also extremely vulnerable. So there are fewer deaths overall because of vaccines, but those deaths are still concentrated in the vaccinated vulnerable population.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

The vaccination rates for people who received both shots look very similar to me 49% vs 54% and vaccinations in the US are higher for the elderly, 80% fully vaccinated, they got first crack at the vaccinations..

The UK says 90% elderly have been vaccinated, who also got first crack at the vaccines.

So the numbers look very similar but the one story is that the unvaccinated are the ones getting infected almost exclusively, while the other story is that the vaccinated elderly are still the most at risk group. There is a way both could be true, but that's not really how this story is being spun, this is (although from a different story)

Walensky called it “a pandemic of the unvaccinated.” Fully vaccinated individuals can still get Covid-19, but they are protected against the worst of it. They should not need hospitalization and will almost certainly not die

And that shouldn't be different in the US than in the UK.

[–]Daddiescummies 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Young people in the UK aren't vaccinated, so the only vaccinated people dying are old people with compromised immune systems.