Assume, for purposes here, that the prevailing orthodoxy is right – that COVID vaccines are highly effective and safe. Who, then, is being protected by masking and other remaining restrictions? Adults who choose not to be vaccinated.
The vaccine is now readily available to everyone over the age of 16. That leaves only those under 16, but you may be shocked by how low the risk of COVID is to them. As of May 5, just 282 deaths involving COVID have been recorded in the U.S. since the pandemic began for those age 0 to 17. With about 73 million kids that age, that means the risk of one of them dying from COVID has been 0.0004%.
All deaths are tragic, especially kids, but that’s truly a microscopic risk and in line with deaths from flu deaths for that age group in some years.
That leaves only the “anti-vaxxers” – the Neanderthals, the science deniers – as they are often mockingly called (not by us). They are the only ones being protected by the establishment that regards them as such.
-Mark Glennon
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
yea, “anti-vaxxer”??
is that like “anti-gas chamber”??
the tin foil hat, face band wearing, silent holocaust deniers, love calling people who don’t want toxic chemicals injected in their bodies “gas chamber hesitant” .
We checked today. Here’s the answer, which comes from the same set of government numbers that we just listed: Between late December of 2020, and last month, a total of 3,362 people apparently died after getting the COVID vaccines in the United States. Three thousand, three hundred and sixty-two — that’s an average of 30 people every day. So, what does that add up to? By the way, that reporting period ended on April 23. We don’t have numbers past that, we’re not quite up to date. But we can assume that another 360 people have died in the 12… Read more »
I read somewhere that the chance of dieing in a bicycle accident is higher than dieing from covid,said before but if youre an otherwise healthy person you will most likely be fine.I look at it like this,this covid thing has been around for over a year now,i havent caught covid that i know of,probably not gonna catch it,so probably dont need the vaccine,i guess i ll just be a neanderthal from here on out,come to think of it,i DO kinda have a big forehead and jaw!!
Don’t confuse the religiously observant covid fanatics with ‘facts and science’. it just gets them angry.
Hows this different than the flu vaccine, don’t say flu doesn’t kill, some chose to get it and some do not. I don’t consider people not getting the flu shot to be Neanderthals,
It’s hard to believe people that say trust the science when they can’t determine a boy or girl at birth. Either you got a one or you don’t.
I havent had the “jab” and dont plan on it it the near future. An experimental drug rushed to the forefront and now daily reports from around the world of adverse reactions, some severe, some fatal. I choose not to be vaccinated so I’m considered a Neanderthal? At some point I may get the shot but for now, nope. I guess I could be one of the sheep out there that ran hither and yon to get vaccinated and then wear two masks and rubber gloves while avoiding anyone who came within 50ft of me or drive my car, alone,… Read more »
And I choose not to get the shot. And I have been opposed to masks since last year. I am not anti-science, science has been very unclear. I am a healthy 65+ adult and I enjoy the liberty afforded to me.
It is the numbers game. None of us has any guarantee that we will be alive tomorrow morning. But the probability of that is high for those who are healthy today and act rationally. The risk of complication from vaccination is much lower than the risk of dying from COVID-19, even for young people. Hence, refraining from vaccination is as wise as driving double the speed limit. For those who do it and those around them. Not all reckless drivers cause accidents killing themselves and others. But they cause most of deadly accidents. It is just the plain math. So… Read more »
Severely flawed analogy. A person driving double the speed limit is a danger to all other drivers on the road. But the unvaccinated person is not a danger to all people and most certainly not a danger to vaccinated people. Vaccinated people have mitigated themselves against the danger of unvaccinated people where as drivers on the road cannot protect themselves from reckless drivers. And while driving recklessly is inherently dangerous, COVID is not inherently dangerous to everyone. It’s only dangerous to elderly and sick people, most of whom have already been vaccinated, which means in a short period of time,… Read more »
Thank you. If the vaccine protects you, the person who received the shot, I will not be a risk for you. I choose to drive on the road with the drivers who drive twice the speed limit. My risk.
Simply not true. Vaccine lowers my chance of getting a severe case of COVID-19. My chance of dying of it are much smaller as well, but still bigger than if you will not infect me, to begin with. Next, with everybody vaccinated, the virus would be eradicated. Most likely, I will not need the booster vaccination shot six months or one year from today. You will pay for it because the government is paying for COVID-19 vaccination. If you get sick with COVID-19 complications, I will pay for it because this is how our health care works. As I wrote,… Read more »
hate to break it to you Henry but covid will never be ” eradicated” whether theres a vaccine or not,every disease known to man is still lurking out there somewhere,vaccine or not
“Next, with everybody vaccinated, the virus would be eradicated “
I do not believe you are correct. As Covid has an animal disease vector, it cannot be eradicated. Like polio, it is up to individuals to behave responsibly in self defense.
That’s a good point. This supposedly came from a bat or a pangolin, or something, and definitely not created in a lab, right?
You are misinformed. This is not math. This is critical thinking. Your belief that you would not need a booster shot in six months to one year if everyone got a shot is reasonable or practicable. There is no way six billion people on earth will get the shot in six to twelve months. And you misconstrue the efficacy of the vaccine. The vaccine virtually eliminates your chances of any contracting a case of covid-19 because your body fights off the virus and stops it from replicating. My contracting the virus has no effect on you because you are immune.… Read more »
But if you’re vaccinated and driving on a road where people are going double the speed limit and get broadsided you’re still going to die.
yes,but if they find out that you had covid but died in a car crash,it gets reported on abc,cbs,cnn and all the rest of the fake news networks as a covid death
And wasn’t this supposed to be without name calling?
Ada, perhaps you misunderstood. We not doing that name calling about those who choose not to get vaccinated. We were talking about the irony in those who do so. Maybe I need to update to make more clear.
Maybe. It was name calling.
Only name calling I can discern is use of the term “anti-vaxxers”?
But placing it in quotation marks and in context of the article, it sounds like a descriptor
(as in, for example, “Ironically, only “white privilege racists’ would be protected by painting a ‘whites-only’ lane on the NIU sidewalks so as to protect woke people from their brutish sidewalk-hogging tyranny).
Name calling I was referring to was ‘Neanderthal”
im offended by that because i AM a neanderthal!
Awesome. I was literally saying the same thing yesterday to my sister in law who is still afraid to let my 6 year old nephew outside!
Okay, now that’s just sad. Six-year-olds need to be outside.
The media did a fine job traumatizing her – hope the better figures being reported will help.
Here’s an interesting tidbit on fresh air. My grandfather served out WWI and the 1918 flu epidemic at Great Lakes naval training base during the war. It was an epicenter of the epidemic. I spoke yesterday with his son, my uncle, about what he described. They believed in fresh air so much that they made sailors leave the barracks and sleep in tents instead. Often very very cold, my grandfather said, but that was their approach. The role of Great Lakes in that epidemic is an interesting history, by the way. The base played a big role in spreading the… Read more »