Rising Deaths and Pleas From Republicans Inspire More to Get Vaccinated

Delta Variant Fears Spur Vaccinations

The lead chart is from the Covid Data Tracker.

The 7-day case rate generally matches states where the vaccinations rate is low. It’s not a perfect match, but it is a very good match that is difficult to deny.

The WSJ reports Delta Variant Fears Spur More Americans to Get Covid-19 Vaccine.

In Alabama, where 35% of people are fully vaccinated, the seven-day average of daily vaccinations reached 10,732 on July 28, more than double the figure on July 7, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. In Arkansas, where 37% are fully vaccinated, the seven-day average more than doubled to 8,676 over that period, and in Missouri, where 41% are fully vaccinated, it more than doubled to 13,103.

In the U.S. as a whole, 50% of the population is fully vaccinated. The seven-day average of daily doses climbed to about 535,000 on July 27, compared with a recent low of around 431,000 on July 8, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In Florida, where 50% of people are fully vaccinated, the seven-day average of daily vaccinations rose to 60,531 on July 28, a 56% increase over the total on July 7, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Alabama Governor Says “Blame the Unvaccinated”

Please note the Alabama Republican Gov. Ivey says ‘start blaming the unvaccinated folks’ for rise in Covid cases

“Folks are supposed to have common sense. But it’s time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks. It’s the unvaccinated folks that are letting us down,” Ivey told reporters in Birmingham.

House Minority Leader McConnell on Board

Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a polio survivor, has ​long advocated for vaccines and has talked about vaccines during multiple visits to his home state of Kentucky, but on Tuesday, he issued one of his fiercest calls to get vaccinated yet.

“These shots need to get in everybody’s arm as rapidly as possible, or we’re going to be back in a situation in the fall that we don’t yearn for, that we went through last year,” McConnell said Tuesday. “I want to encourage everybody to do that and to ignore all of these other voices that are giving demonstrably bad advice.”

States With Low Vaccination Rates Lead in Covid Cases and Deaths

I commented on vaccinations yesterday in States With Low Vaccination Rates Lead in Covid Cases and Deaths, Who’s to Blame?

Here are some updated charts.

New Covid Deaths Per Million Top 15 

The data is from Worldometers for a single day specifically July 30, 2021. Single days can skew things a bit. For example, D.C. had three deaths but that amounts to a rate of 4.25 per million.

The rest of the states generally fit the 7-Day Pattern in the lead chart.

New Covid Cases Per Million Top 15 

This data is overwhelmingly consistent with low vaccination rates. 

Why the Distrust?

For starters, look no further than Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

He has flip-flopped and lied so many times it’s arguably a wonder why the vaccination rate is as high as it is.

Also blame Trump, Republican Governors in general, anti-vaxers, Republican Senators, etc.

You Too, Mish?

My post yesterday inspired these comments from readers.

  1. “Wow, even you Mish. Even by the statistics you’ve presented the rates are extremely low.”

  2. “I can’t trust the government or pharma. The statistics the government collected were misleading.”
  3. “Dare one ask how are things in Sweden?”

Regarding Point 3

Gee, let’s compare the US to Sweden with widely differing population densities and number of people per household. 

Let’s also ignore the fact that people in Sweden generally follow government guidelines while those in the US don’t.

And on top of that, let’s pretend that Sweden is the perfect measure of Covid for the entire world. 

Regarding Point 2

My bad, this is all nothing but a conspiracy by Bill Gates and the CDC to plant microchips into everyone’s brain.

Meanwhile, let’s ignore the fact that 99% of the new deaths come from the unvaccinated. 

Oh wait, that’s made up, too. It’s all part of the broader conspiracy to implant microchips. 

Clearly, Gates already got to Mitch McConnell and the Republican Alabama governor.

Regarding Point 1

Yes, me too. The data speaks for itself and only the foolish deny it. 

Nothing Will Convince Some Like a Near-Death Experience 

Please note that Conservative talk radio host Phil Valentine still hospitalized amid COVID battle

Last week, Mark Valentine, spoke at length on WWTN-FM about his brother’s condition and said his brother now regrets not being an advocate for vaccination.

Phil Valentine has had an afternoon talk radio show on the station for years. He previously advised listeners to get vaccinated only if they thought they would likely die from COVID-19.

On July 11, Valentine confirmed via his Facebook page that he had been diagnosed with the virus.

https://twitter.com/RichWritesRants/status/1420796937347940355

What’s the Point?

Some people on Twitter are rooting for Valentine’s death to make a point. But what point is that?

Is it better to have a conservative talk show host spreading the word to get vaccinated or not?

Sad State of Affairs

It’s a sad state of affairs that someone needs to be on a deathbed before they understand the threat.

Meanwhile, go ahead and mock me until you are where Phil Valentine is today. 

The odds are overwhelming you aren’t next. But if you get Covid now, a mere 99% of those who die from Covid are the unvaccinated. 

Well, who cares? Who listens to Conservatives in the hospital anyway?

Expect to Hear “See, I was Right!”

The beauty of it all is that if enough people get vaccinated, the rate of vaccinations itself will eventually cause Covid transmissions to die out.

This in turn will allow the unvaccinated to pound their chests and say “See, I was right!” as if the 610,000+ who died don’t matter at all.

Mish 

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mrchinup
mrchinup
4 years ago
Another! Come on people wake up. How did Americans become such woosies so fast? https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21030483-outbreak-of-sars-cov-2-infections-including-covid-19-vaccine-breakthrough-infections-associated-with-large-public-gatherings-massachusetts-july-30-2021  Keep your masks on, let’s close down the world because we have a new flu they created. Maybe, just maybe this is a wake up call to all Americans. It’s time to get off your couches and start loosing some fat and get in shape. Too many fat arrses  who depend on the corrupt big pharma to save them from their viruses.
randocalrissian
randocalrissian
4 years ago
Reply to  mrchinup
How does one loose fat?
jfpersona1
jfpersona1
4 years ago
Drop a can of lard from several stories up and watch it loose all over when it hits the pavement.
mrchinup
mrchinup
4 years ago
”The beauty of it all is that if enough people get vaccinated, the rate
of vaccinations itself will eventually cause Covid transmissions to die
out.”
You haven’t been paying attention Mish. It makes no difference with transmitting or catching this new virus even if you get this BS Vax.  https://agrdailynews.com/2021/07/19/85-of-new-covid-delta-infections-in-israel-are-fully-vaccinated-a-disaster-is-unfolding/  IMO, anyone who gets the vax right now is nothing but a moron. There is also a new variant in Peru. There is only one way to stop all these diseases, get rid of the scumbags who are creating them. And we all know who that is except the people hiding their heads in the sand.
RonJ
RonJ
4 years ago
Governor Ivey: “Folks are supposed to have common sense. But it’s time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks.”
As of a a week or so ago, only 34% of black people and 39% of Hispanics were Covaxxed. KTLA “News” noted again that only about half of LAPD and LAFD are Covaxxed. How are the unCovaxxed people, not regular folks?
Governor Ivey is Gaslighting.
Dr. Odyssey
Dr. Odyssey
4 years ago
If you go online and do simple research on the term “COVID Vaccine Side Effects” you are presented with a gaggle of links that are strangely similar. “Side effects are minor and common.” “Side effects are a sign that your vaccine is working properly.” When you visit YouTube and do the same search, again, the videos have a consistent theme. “The risk from the vaccines are less than the risks from COVID” and “vaccine side effects are actually a good thing.” If you post a comment or video on Facebook about vaccine side effects your post is deleted and your account may be closed.

But when you go to an uncensored website like http://bitchute.com or http://rumble.com and do the same search, you see hundreds of videos from real people who have had horrific side effects from their injections.

This website is dedicated to sharing the truth about these people and their testimonials. Watch for yourself and make up your own mind. Is it worth it to risk life-changing and even fatal side effects from a vaccine for a disease that is survived by 99.98% of people under 70?

Below, you will find countless stories of side effects directly from those involved, or sadly, if they died, from their relatives. 

Agave
Agave
4 years ago
Reply to  Dr. Odyssey
What rubbish. Have a relatively few people of the total been impacted by the vaccines? Ok. Does this not happen with any disease and its vaccines? Yes.
I think I’ll make videos of the hundreds of millions who have taken the vaccines with little or no side effects, like myself, and who are now protected against the ravages of the delta variant, in which over 99% of the hospitalized and dying, including younger and otherwise healthier people now, are unvaccinated.
Uncensored websites. LOL. You guys are like the soldier in Monty Python after having his arms and legs cut off – “I’m not dead yet!”.
If you didn’t have the ability to breed more variants and pass along existing ones by being unvaccinated, or strain and put at risk the hard working healthcare workers, I’d say have at it. As it is though, your selfishness that you call “freedom and liberty” impacts us all. We know though – you don’t care.
RonJ
RonJ
4 years ago
Reply to  Agave
Most of the world is not vaccinated, so new variants are going to happen whether you like it not. The vaccines are non sterilizing, thus subject to immune escape. Illegal aliens are bringing Covid into the U.S. right now and the Biden Administration is doing nothing to stop it. In other words, the Biden Administration doesn’t care if a new variant comes into the country, providing the immune escape variant that the CDC says they are concerned about, while downplaying current Covid cases that are coming across the border, for political purposes. Politics above the health and safety of the American people, by the Biden Administration.
mrchinup
mrchinup
4 years ago
Reply to  Dr. Odyssey
I spent from Nov to till the end of May taking care of a friend in South Florida. I was in AZ at the time he said I need your help. We took care of business and left right away. He needed new lungs he got one in early Jan, was in and out of the hospital for the better part of 7 months. He had already had his first shot which I wasn’t afraid of, still tried to talk him out of it.
The last time we left JM hospital I told the doctors and nurses he shouldn’t be getting this BS second shot, I told him over and over again. It is more dangerous in his case than taking a chance of getting it. 7 months of the most stressful time in my life. The last time I took him home he looked better than the past 15 years. Lung was working great. 8 days later dead on the bathroom floor.
Anyone think I will listen to doctors or anyone else who doesn’t have a lick of common sense? No! I’m under 70, (wouldn’t get the jab even if I wasn’t) I work out all the time spending my time in the Utah mountains for the summer. Spent many days in Key West where tens of thousands of people from all over the world, wore no masks walking past each other and eating out. I’m not changing my life for jagoffs who want to create panic.
FromBrussels
FromBrussels
4 years ago
‘ve been doing some international research in recent days and weeks, avoiding stupid or corrupt politicians and big pharma lobbied/ bribed msm sources… My irrevocable conclusion :  the vaxxed sheeple have now become mutation breeding machines, with variants that will increasingly circumvent  the present vaxxines. It is only a matter of time, months or even weeks, for ‘booster’ shots to be recommended(or made compulsory) on a regular(monthly?) basis!  Some, already jabbed ones,  don’ t seem to  mind; being a fn LAB RAT must be nice !
Doug78
Doug78
4 years ago
Reply to  FromBrussels
Do you see Flemish as a separate language or as a dialect of Dutch?
FromBrussels
FromBrussels
4 years ago
Reply to  Doug78
flemish is a dialect with weirdly pronounced dutch words, it is very remarkable and strange but in the village next to mine you might already notice slight differences…. When I was a young boy I lived  along the river Schelde(l escaut), at the other side people pronounce very differently,  weird when you come to think of it …well actually not, it can be explained by the fact that people used to live more isolated from other villages or communities, thats also the reason why nowadays, in our modern era, dialects are gradually disappearing and flemish is becoming dutch, albeit with a much softer or gentler pronunciation than the dutch spoken by the Hollanders, with their horrible throat sounds…. 
Doug78
Doug78
4 years ago
Reply to  FromBrussels
The Dutch have horrible throat sounds and the Flemish have a gentler and softer tone? That means you have have the Deep Southern New Orleans-type accent. I wonder if it affects your worldview. 
FromBrussels
FromBrussels
4 years ago
Reply to  Doug78
wouldn’ t know,  and one can’t and shouldn’t generalize but I d say the dutch are more shrewd, ambitious and slick than the flemish ….There is already an awful difference between flemish and dutch children,  when you compare the two and you hear them talking you get the impression the dutch are smarter because of their speaking skills, their arrogant fluency….Things are changing in a globalised uniform world but we flemish are more relaxed bonvivants I ‘ d say….. That’s it for today, gonna switch off my damn PC…Good night !
Bbbbbbb
Bbbbbbb
4 years ago
Reply to  FromBrussels
One of the few conclusions I can consistently draw from political discussions is that people who use the term “sheeple” are almost without exception raving a**holes, and usually anti-working class a**holes.
FromBrussels
FromBrussels
4 years ago
Reply to  Bbbbbbb
…Suit yourself….I can t help you with a possible inferiority complex….
Esclaro
Esclaro
4 years ago
I have to laugh about these morons taking ivermectin. That’s what we give our horses to deworm them! I wish the Delta variant was more lethal killing everyone who got it. Finally we could be done with the anti vaxxers once and for all. Maybe next pandemic!
RonJ
RonJ
4 years ago
Reply to  Esclaro
Ivermectin works against Covid-19.
Real world example. “…philanthropist, Haryoseno, leapt into action and made ivermectin available to the masses for free or at low cost. As a result, Indonesia has had an extremely low Covid mortality rate. That is until the Ministry of Health decided, in line with the WHO’s recommendation, that ivermectin would only be used in a clinical trial. Haryoseno has been threatened with a fine and a ten-yearjail sentence and the supply of ivermectin has dried up.
Result? Deaths per million have increased five-fold since withdrawal of ivermectin on 12 June.”
Doug78
Doug78
4 years ago
Reply to  Esclaro
Nazi in the making. Kill everyone who disagrees with me.
FromBrussels
FromBrussels
4 years ago
Reply to  Esclaro
…already registered for your 3rd graphene shot?  You gonna need it soon , a fourth one by december… See, some unvaxxed ones don t want you to die,  you ‘re such a nice person…. 
mrchinup
mrchinup
4 years ago
Reply to  Esclaro
Agree since 85% of the people getting the Delta are people who got the vax. I’m all for weak minded liberals leaving us so we can have a better world.
Corvinus
Corvinus
4 years ago
Reply to  Esclaro
It’s always wryly amusing to me how often the people who are outraged at anti-vaxxers, and other (typically conservative) types that don’t agree with their ‘tolerant’, ‘rational’ and ‘science believing’ world view are so cavalier about sending those people to their deaths and cheering it as an expression of deep humanity.
RonJ
RonJ
4 years ago
Vaccines
Take a look.
518,769 reports thru July 23
11,940 deaths
40,991 hospitalizations
65,067 urgent care
80,920 office visits
4,110 anaphylaxis
3,714 Bells Palsy
4,799 heart attacks
12,808 permanently disabled.
22,285 Severe allergic reaction
I am told that the vaccines are safe. This doesn’t look safe to me.
I know that if i take ivermectin i won’t have a heart attack or blood clots, etc.
Eddie_T
Eddie_T
4 years ago
Reply to  RonJ
Self-reported data , unconfirmed by anybody, and no correlation shown between any of these issues and any vaccine.
I am told that most Americans aren’t very well educated. I concur. Nobody has a clue how to calculate risk in this country.
RonJ
RonJ
4 years ago
Reply to  Eddie_T
No correlation proved not to be due to the vaccines.
Steve Kirsch’s carpet cleaner had a heart attack just 2 minutes after he got the shot. The carpet cleaner’s wife had a neurological issue after getting the shot. I can’t consider that to be just coincidental.
mrchinup
mrchinup
4 years ago
Reply to  Eddie_T
Eddie most cases are never counted, those numbers are much, much higher. Educated? You mean educated in America? LMAO  I never graduated from college but retired on my own dime at 26. I quit after one year, those dopes teaching weren’t as smart as my dog. Up in the mountains of Utah having fun.
RonJ
RonJ
4 years ago
“Prayers for Phil, his wife Susan, their family, and all those suffering tonight because of COVID.”
Has Phil been denied treatment with Ivermectin? have all those others suffering from Covid, been denied Ivermectin? I would guess yes.
The FDA would rather they die, than be treated with Ivermectin on an outpatient basis, to save their lives.
Eddie_T
Eddie_T
4 years ago
Reply to  RonJ
Ron, I took Ivermectin until I got the shot. But the recent meta studies have muddied the waters, to say the least. I’m not a fan of meta-studies (we could talk about why) but at this point the evidence for Ivermectin is not there yet.
The first good study of Ivermectin is getting underway now. I think it should be watched closely and the results examined critically….. and other good studies should be conducted. I do fault the US medical establishment and the CDC and The WHO for standing in the way of this.
But the facts really still aren’t in, for anybody looking for excellent data driven evidence to base treatment upon. End of story.
RonJ
RonJ
4 years ago
“Why the Distrust?”
The pubic health agencies have been Gaslighting us all along.
HCQ is an FDA approved drug. FDA approved drugs are prescribed off label all the time, up to 20% of prescriptions. HCQ never needed an EUA to be used for outpatient Covid treatment. The FDA imposed one and blocked it from being used for early outpatient treatment, when it worked best.
Vaccines take a long time to develop and test for safety. They cannot be given an  EUA unless there is no other treatment. Thus HCQ and Ivermectin were not allowed to be used against Covid, as they do have efficacy against the virus and would have prevented an EUA for vaccines.
A lot of people died as a result, as they were denied outpatient treatment.
Mr. Purple
Mr. Purple
4 years ago
Bravo Mish!
JohnGalt3
JohnGalt3
4 years ago
ME: CDC, should I get poke if I already had Covid?
CDC: “Yes, you should be poked regardless of whether you already had COVID-19. That’s because experts do not yet know how long you are protected from getting sick again after recovering from COVID-19.”
~more~ 
ME: Oh, so we don’t know how long natural immunity lasts. So, how long does poke-induced immunity last?
CDC: “There is still a lot we’re learning about pokes and CDC is constantly reviewing evidence and updating guidance. We don’t know how long protection lasts for those poked.” 
ME: Okay, but wait a second. I thought you said the reason I need the poke was because we don’t know how long my natural immunity lasts, but you’re saying we ALSO don’t know how long poke immunity lasts either. So, how exactly is the poke immunity better than my natural immunity? 
CDC: …
ME: Uh … alright. But, haven’t there been a bunch of studies suggesting that natural immunity could last for years or decades?
CDC: Yes.
NEWYORKTIMES: “Years, maybe decades, according to a new study.”
ME: Ah. So natural immunity might last longer than poke immunity? 
CDC: Possibly.
ME: Okay. If I get the poke, does that mean I won’t get sick?
BRITAIN: Nope. We are entering a seasonal spike and half of our infections and hospital admissions are poked people.
ME: CDC, is this true? Are there people in the U.S. catching it after getting poked? 
CDC: We stopped tracking breakthrough cases. We accept voluntary reports but aren’t out there looking for them.
ME: Does that mean that if someone comes in the hospital with Covid, you don’t track them because they’ve been poked? You only track the UN-poked Covid cases? 
CDC: That’s right.
ME: Hmm. Well, if I can still get sick after I get the poke, how is it helping me?
CDC: We never said you wouldn’t get sick. We said it would reduce your chances of serious illness or death.
ME: Oh, sorry. Alright, exactly how much does it reduce my chances? 
CDC: We don’t know “exactly.”
ME: Oh. Then what’s your best estimate for how much risk reduction there is?
CDC: We don’t know, okay? Next question.
ME: Um, if I’m healthy and don’t want the poke, is there any reason I should get it?
CDC: Yes, for the collective. 
ME: How does the collective benefit from me getting poked?
CDC: Because you could spread the virus to someone else who might get sick and die.
ME: Can a poked person spread the virus to someone else?
CDC: Yes.
ME: So if I get poked, I could still spread the virus to someone else? 
CDC: Yes.
ME: But I thought you just said, the REASON I should get poked was to prevent me spreading the virus? How does that make sense if I can still catch Covid and spread it after getting the poke? 
CDC: Never mind that. Also, if you stay unpoked, there’s a chance the virus could possibly mutate into a strain that escapes the pokes protection, putting all poked people at risk.
ME: So the poke stops the virus from mutating?
CDC: No.
ME: So it can still mutate with the poke? 
CDC: Yes.
ME: This seems confusing. If the poke doesn’t stop mutations, and it doesn’t stop infections, then how does me getting poked help prevent a more deadly strain from evolving to escape the poke?
CDC: <Sigh> 
CDC: You aren’t listening, okay? The bottom line is: as long as you are unpoked, you pose a threat to poked people.
ME: But what KIND of threat??
CDC: The threat that they could get a serious case of Covid and possibly die. 
ME: My brain hurts. Didn’t you JUST say that the poke doesn’t stop people from catching Covid, but prevents a serious case or dying? Now it seems like you’re saying poked people can still easily die from Covid even after they got the poke from an unpoked person!
Which is it?? 
CDC: That’s it, we’re hanging up now.
ME: Wait! I just want to make sure I understand all this. So, even if I ALREADY had Covid, I should STILL get poked, because we don’t know how long natural immunity lasts, and we also don’t know how long poke immunity lasts…. 
…And I should get the poke to keep a poked person from catching Covid from me, but even if I get the poke, I can give it to the poked person anyways. And, the other poked person can still easily catch a serious case of Covid from me and die. Do I have all that right?
…… 
ME: Um, hello? Is anyone there?
Finis 
Jojo
Jojo
4 years ago
Reply to  JohnGalt3
Great post, thanks!  I’ve had similar logic thoughts but you’ve done a terrific job of putting the dissonance together.
Webej
Webej
4 years ago
Mackkenzie
Mackkenzie
4 years ago
Reply to  Webej
Sure, there are breakthrough infections but the data clearly shows that vaccinated people rarely die. If you do get infected it is FAR better to have been vaccinated. Something like 99% of everyone dying from COVID now are the unvaccinated.
Jojo
Jojo
4 years ago
Reply to  Mackkenzie
Most people who get Covid infections DO NOT have to go to the hospital and DO NOT die!  Most people would recover from Covid w/o any effects and move on with their lives.
You’ve clearly brought into the MSM hyperbole.
jfpersona1
jfpersona1
4 years ago
Reply to  Jojo
Both your statement and Mackkenzie’s statement can be (and are) true.
Most people don’t go to the hospital and most people don’t die if they get Covid.  This has been true from the beginning – it is not news and has been widely reported in the ‘MSM hyperbole’ that you appear to dislike so much.
The statement that 99% or so of the people that are dying with Covid as the cause are unvaccinated is likely also true (I didn’t look it up – it seems like common sense to me, but whatever…).  The same media that reported death rates of 0.2-3% (a statistic that you like) also are reporting that the vast majority of hospitalizations and deaths are currently in the unvaccinated ‘slice’ of the population.  If you like the one statistic, I would assume you would accept the second – they basically go hand-in-hand.
whirlaway
whirlaway
4 years ago
As the delta variant spreads and wreaks havoc among the (mostly) unvaccinated, the same people who said the whole thing was a “hoax” will start saying that the virus was created and spread by Fauci and Gates!    And they will do the switcheroo without missing a beat.
Blurtman
Blurtman
4 years ago
The rate of SARS-CoV-2 PCR postivity is likely higher than reported due to testing bias.  Recommendations by public health authorities regarding who should be tested focus on the syptomatic, assumed to be higher in the unvaccinated population.  It would be interesting to see the total PCR positivity rate in the unvaccinated plus vaccinated population. We are starting to see strikng PCR positivity rates in the vaccinated, attributed to the Delta variant, which brings into question the validity of vaccine passports.
Webej
Webej
4 years ago
Reply to  Blurtman
Vaccinated people are exempt from testing and generally asymptomatic if infected. These infections generally only come to light upon hospitalization.
Guidelines also specify that hospitalization and death in the vaccinated must be caused by Covid to be so registered, whereas the unvaccinated are registered as cases if they have a positive PCR test or are assumed to have Covid symptoms (so many people are not diagnosed as Covid patients until after they go the hospital for other treatments).
Blurtman
Blurtman
4 years ago
Reply to  Webej
Right, and so the unreported rate of PCR positivity in the vaccinated would mean that the total reported PCR positivity rate is an under-representation. And so vaccine passports would be an ineffective way to limit the spread of SARS-CoV-2.
Blurtman
Blurtman
4 years ago
Reply to  Blurtman
And thus that the case fatality rate is exaggerated.
Dr. Odyssey
Dr. Odyssey
4 years ago
thimk, it’s complicated. 
Eighty fully vaccinated Massachusetts residents have died from COVID-19 and the number of breakthrough cases reported across the state has surpassed 5,000, new public health data shows.

The Tennessee Department of Health reports 27 fully vaccinated people have died from COVID-19. These are among the state’s more than 1,000 “breakthrough” cases. These are cases in which fully vaccinated people have contracted the virus.

Mackkenzie
Mackkenzie
4 years ago
Reply to  Dr. Odyssey
Yes, there are a handful of deaths amongst vaccinated people but it is a miniscule percentage of all the Covid deaths. No vaccines never have been 100% effective. The fact that over 99% of all current COVID deaths are amongst the unvaccinated clearly shows the vaccines are saving lives.
thimk
thimk
4 years ago
One of the possible misconceptions of taking the vaccine is that it is a form of “gene therapy” .  I here this meme expounded at my local gym also. 
Not so sure that is true , . After this pandemic winds down I’m  wondering if I ( i.e.vaccinated via 2 jabs of moderna)  will get a thank you from the non vaccinated for  reducing the infection rate  .
Doug78
Doug78
4 years ago
Reply to  thimk
Of course it is by the official definition. The Forbes article correctly explains that it doesn’t alter your DNA  but it does give instructions to your cell to manufacture the covid spikes via RNA instruction and RNA is a genetic material. You should also give a thanks to all the people who delivered your food, kept your internet, electricity and water on and did it before there were vaccines before asking for others to thank you.
Blurtman
Blurtman
4 years ago
Reply to  Doug78
The inventor of the mRNA technology, Robert Malone, describes the vaccine application of the technology to be a lemons to lemonade story about a failed gene therapy approach.  When the mRNA technology was tried as a gene therapy to insert a correct functional protein in patients who suffered from a genetic defect that caused them to make an incorrectly functioning protein, the correct protein was immunogenic and rejected by the patients whose immune systems recognized the correct protein as foreign. The spike protein vaccines perform the same function, inserting a protein not made by the recipients into their bodies, by directing their protein manufacturing appartus to make the foreign protein, triggering an immune response to it. Now if early reports that reveserse transcriptase enters this sequence into the recipients’ DNA turn out to be true, than an artificial gene would have been inserted into the recipient.  There is a tremendous amount of unknowns that take time to work out, but many people focus only on the short term, as there is an immediacy mandate due to the pandemic.
Doug78
Doug78
4 years ago
Reply to  Blurtman
As you point out there are a lot of unknowns and when they say that there is no risk because the RNA never enters into the nucleus I take that with  a grain of salt. Anyone who has studied cell genetics knows that we have only scratched the surface and that they are finding incredible new ways how nature transfers genes within and without the cell.  The RNA vaccines are good but we must keep our eyes wide open. 
Corvinus
Corvinus
4 years ago
Reply to  Doug78
Indeed. How many times have the boffins said that this or that thing can “never” happen only to be proven – sometimes years down the road – that their assumptions were wrong? For most people big “S” Science has become the anti-religion and as such a religion in it’s own way. Given so many reversals, flip-flops, and overturned results in scientific literature, not to mention the reproducibility problem and rampant fraud in scientific papers it’s a mystery to me why, of all scientific enterprises, people put so much blind faith in Big Pharma. How many drugs have turned out to cause health problems years down the road?
Doug78
Doug78
4 years ago
Reply to  Corvinus
The problem is not science but that public officials do not want to talk about trade offs and prefer to treat the population like children who are not capable of making decisions. All public health matters involve trade offs and if you cannot explain them for whatever the reason then you have to resort to compulsion and people will resist that because it doesn’t make sense. If public officials can’t explain it then maybe their reasoning is faulty. 
thimk
thimk
4 years ago
Reply to  Doug78
I thank my first responders , medical providers , friends/family, super market cashier, et al by staying healthy and infection free. 
Doug78
Doug78
4 years ago
Reply to  thimk
And how many of them are vaccinated and how many are not? How many went out and did their jobs knowing that they could catch covid and worked anyway? And were you one of them or did you just work from home and had everything delivered to you? If you didn’t risk yourself at that time to provide others necessary services then you have no call to play the “holier than thou” card. Lots of people stepped up to the plate and did not hide when it got rough. Did you? 
Webej
Webej
4 years ago
Reply to  thimk
Traditional vaccine inoculum contains an attenuated or inactivated version of the pathogen (‘can’t reproduce or dead’).
That is not true for many of the so-called current vaccines, which use either mRNA or DNA (adenovirus vector), and it is your own cells that produce the pathogen/spike protein as a result.
Note that most of the Chinese vaccines are of the traditional type.
It is gene therapy, but it is not true that it changes your DNA (although some researchers think this possibility has not been completely excluded).
The theory and practice used in the ‘vaccine’ is the result of 20 years of experimenting with gene therapy to fight cancer and such.
Although the inoculum injected was promised to be harmless, as is generally the case with a vaccine, the spike protein is itself cytoxic (despite being a truncated version of the virus): Lots of science papers have merged on this subject. It is the spike protein that causes many of the symptoms both of Covid and the adverse reactions.
Webej
Webej
4 years ago
  • The 99% includes all people (all 600 K) prior to 2 weeks after the second jab over all of 2020-21, not in the current cases, where the proportion is much higher.
  • The most notable influence on Covid is seasonal, as with all respiratory pathogens. The states with more ‘cases’ now correspond quite well to what last summer was (erroneously) labeled the second wave. Erroneous because the US always shows a double hump in seasonal infections
  • The statistics are certainly not better than those of the BLS
  • Walensky has on more than one occasion cited numbers completely at odds with official CDC numbers
  • 0.9% of all officially attributed Covid deaths had no life-limiting co-morbidities
oee
oee
4 years ago
He spread ant-vaxx propaganda. How many died due his anti-vaxx propaganda? Like the Good Book says, he didi not show mercy will not be shown mercy. 
Dr. Odyssey
Dr. Odyssey
4 years ago
Hello FromBrussels. Here is the latest update from EudraVigilance as of July 17 2021.
Total reactions for the experimental mRNA vaccine Tozinameran (code BNT162b2,Comirnaty) from BioNTech/ Pfizer: 8,939 deaths and 695,332 injuries to 17/07/2021
  • 19,163   Blood and lymphatic system disorders incl. 107 deaths
  • 16,713   Cardiac disorders incl. 1,271 deaths
  • 151        Congenital, familial and genetic disorders incl. 12 deaths
  • 8,784     Ear and labyrinth disorders incl. 7 deaths
  • 376        Endocrine disorders incl. 2 deaths
  • 10,408   Eye disorders incl. 20 deaths
  • 63,537   Gastrointestinal disorders incl. 403 deaths
  • 188,523 General disorders and administration site conditions incl. 2,643 deaths
  • 657        Hepatobiliary disorders incl. 38 deaths
  • 7,639     Immune system disorders incl. 45 deaths
  • 21,627   Infections and infestations incl. 886 deaths
  • 8,215     Injury, poisoning and procedural complications incl. 130 deaths
  • 17,151   Investigations incl. 304 deaths
  • 5,143     Metabolism and nutrition disorders incl. 164 deaths
  • 96,554   Musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders incl. 107 deaths
  • 451        Neoplasms benign, malignant and unspecified (incl cysts and polyps) incl. 30 deaths
  • 125,160 Nervous system disorders incl. 958 deaths
  • 586        Pregnancy, puerperium and perinatal conditions incl. 18 deaths
  • 128        Product issues
  • 12,310   Psychiatric disorders incl. 119 deaths
  • 2,210     Renal and urinary disorders incl. 137 deaths
  • 5,923     Reproductive system and breast disorders incl. 2 deaths
  • 30,071   Respiratory, thoracic and mediastinal disorders incl. 1,057 deaths
  • 33,254   Skin and subcutaneous tissue disorders incl. 81 deaths
  • 1,114     Social circumstances incl. 13 deaths
  • 463        Surgical and medical procedures incl. 24 deaths
  • 19,021   Vascular disorders incl. 361 deaths

Total reactions for the experimental mRNA vaccine mRNA-1273(CX-024414) from Moderna: 5,109 deathand 188,917 injuries to 17/07/2021

  • 3,401     Blood and lymphatic system disorders incl. 42 deaths
  • 5,427     Cardiac disorders incl. 558 deaths
  • 78           Congenital, familial and genetic disorders incl. 4 deaths
  • 2,400     Ear and labyrinth disorders
  • 144        Endocrine disorders incl. 1 death
  • 2,996     Eye disorders incl. 10 deaths
  • 16,461   Gastrointestinal disorders incl. 189 deaths
  • 50,799   General disorders and administration site conditions incl. 2,080 deaths
  • 307        Hepatobiliary disorders incl. 18 deaths
  • 1,567     Immune system disorders incl. 6 deaths
  • 5,560     Infections and infestations incl. 308 deaths
  • 4,134     Injury, poisoning and procedural complications incl. 97 deaths
  • 3,853     Investigations incl. 98 deaths
  • 1,902     Metabolism and nutrition disorders incl. 113 deaths
  • 23,555   Musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders incl. 97 deaths
  • 225        Neoplasms benign, malignant and unspecified (incl cysts and polyps) incl. 22 deaths
  • 34,026   Nervous system disorders incl. 513 deaths
  • 391        Pregnancy, puerperium and perinatal conditions incl. 2 deaths
  • 33           Product issues
  • 3,810     Psychiatric disorders incl. 88 deaths
  • 1,202     Renal and urinary disorders incl. 78 deaths
  • 1,203     Reproductive system and breast disorders incl. 2 deaths
  • 8,513     Respiratory, thoracic and mediastinal disorders incl. 489 deaths
  • 9,995     Skin and subcutaneous tissue disorders incl. 39 deaths
  • 845        Social circumstances incl. 19 deaths
  • 636        Surgical and medical procedures incl. 48 deaths
  • 5,454     Vascular disorders incl. 188 deaths

Total reactions for the experimental vaccine AZD1222/VAXZEVRIA (CHADOX1 NCOV-19) from Oxford/ AstraZeneca4,200 deathand 887,314 injuries to 17/07/2021

  • 10,414   Blood and lymphatic system disorders incl. 175 deaths
  • 14,055   Cardiac disorders incl. 487 deaths 
  • 118        Congenital, familial and genetic disorders incl. 3 deaths 
  • 10,167   Ear and labyrinth disorders
  • 385        Endocrine disorders incl. 3 deaths
  • 15,321   Eye disorders incl. 17 deaths
  • 89,087   Gastrointestinal disorders incl. 202 deaths
  • 235,935 General disorders and administration site conditions incl. 1,075 deaths
  • 664        Hepatobiliary disorders incl. 37 deaths
  • 3,510     Immune system disorders incl. 14 deaths
  • 20,564   Infections and infestations incl. 262 deaths
  • 9,562     Injury, poisoning and procedural complications incl. 104 deaths
  • 19,221   Investigations incl. 98 deaths
  • 10,674   Metabolism and nutrition disorders incl. 55 deaths
  • 136,186 Musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders incl. 55 deaths
  • 411        Neoplasms benign, malignant and unspecified (incl cysts and polyps) incl. 10 deaths
  • 187,160 Nervous system disorders incl. 670 deaths 
  • 328        Pregnancy, puerperium and perinatal conditions incl. 8 deaths
  • 128        Product issues incl. 1 death
  • 16,607   Psychiatric disorders incl. 36 deaths
  • 3,169     Renal and urinary disorders incl. 36 deaths
  • 10,364   Reproductive system and breast disorders
  • 30,368   Respiratory, thoracic and mediastinal disorders incl. 492 deaths
  • 40,721   Skin and subcutaneous tissue disorders incl. 26 deaths
  • 923        Social circumstances incl. 6 deaths
  • 873        Surgical and medical procedures incl. 17 deaths
  • 20,399   Vascular disorders incl. 311 deaths

Total reactions for the experimental COVID-19 vaccine JANSSEN (AD26.COV2.S) from Johnson & Johnson680 deaths and 51,656 injuries to 17/07/2021

  • 461        Blood and lymphatic system disorders incl. 21 deaths
  • 747        Cardiac disorders incl. 81 deaths 
  • 18           Congenital, familial and genetic disorders
  • 289        Ear and labyrinth disorders
  • 14           Endocrine disorders incl. 1 death
  • 598        Eye disorders incl. 3 deaths
  • 5,021     Gastrointestinal disorders incl. 28 deaths 
  • 13,775   General disorders and administration site conditions incl. 163 deaths
  • 71           Hepatobiliary disorders incl. 6 deaths
  • 199        Immune system disorders incl. 3 deaths
  • 744        Infections and infestations incl. 19 deaths
  • 467        Injury, poisoning and procedural complications incl. 9 deaths
  • 2,710     Investigations incl. 48 deaths
  • 259        Metabolism and nutrition disorders incl. 12 deaths
  • 8,905     Musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders incl. 20 deaths
  • 20           Neoplasms benign, malignant and unspecified (incl cysts and polyps) incl. 1 death
  • 11,093   Nervous system disorders incl. 86 deaths
  • 16           Pregnancy, puerperium and perinatal conditions incl. 1 death
  • 13           Product issues
  • 546        Psychiatric disorders incl. 6 deaths
  • 177        Renal and urinary disorders incl. 9 deaths
  • 258        Reproductive system and breast disorders incl. 2 deaths
  • 1,646     Respiratory, thoracic and mediastinal disorders incl. 53 deaths
  • 1,382     Skin and subcutaneous tissue disorders incl. 2 deaths
  • 106        Social circumstances incl. 3 deaths
  • 429        Surgical and medical procedures incl. 30 deaths
  • 1,692     Vascular disorders incl. 73 deaths

*These totals are estimates based on reports submitted to  EudraVigilance. Totals may be much higher based on percentage of adverse reactions that are reported. Some of these reports may also be reported to the individual country’s adverse reaction databases, such as the U.S. VAERS database and the UK Yellow Card system. The fatalities are grouped by symptoms, and some fatalities may have resulted from multiple symptoms.

FromBrussels
FromBrussels
4 years ago
Reply to  Dr. Odyssey
impressive…. thanks ….It is like casting pearls before swine , I am afraid…..
FromBrussels
FromBrussels
4 years ago
To finish his ‘inspiring’ article Mish mentions the 610K deaths……A clever fellow like Mish should know by now that those numbers are blatantly overblown, outright LIES even !   Hospitals wanted as many Covid cases as possible for that was big, government stimulated,  business, I read that in NY hospitals, at one point, almost everybody entering had Covid and almost everybody died with Covid in order to fetch the between 30K and 40k $ covid bonus. I don t remember the exact numbers but I guess you can google it ,if it hasn t disappeared into the socialist memory hole yet.  That being said, I  personally don t know anyone who died from Covid,   I ve known 30 or 40 young and middle aged people who caught the virus, were a bit sick but never hospitalised, even my now 93 years old, in a care home residing,  mom survived and is doing fine.  So, tell me, WHY should we believe the ‘99% of deaths are unvaxxed’ rethoric, for this is undoubtedly yet another LIE to push the Big Pharma  gene therapy agenda into the predictably endless, billions of dollars profits direction !  Now another question :  how many people got killed so far by the experimental, insufficiently tried out, so called vaccine ?  The numbers must be impressive by now….but well hidden of course.  In the exemplary Flanders region where I live with 7mln habitants, about 85 to 90% of the sheeple are or will soon be jabbed thanks to a relentless brainwashing campaign by the bribed state outlets (tv, radio newspapers etc)  Do I know people who, apart from getting very sick and injured, got killed by the jab ? Not officially, of course not, yet I do know a couple of people in my village or small town rather(no I don t live in the very Brussels) who died conspicuously days or weeks post jab. The official EU agency, Eudravigilance, well hidden from the sheeple, mentions more than 15000 possibly vaccine related deaths and hundreds of thousands  serious injuries.   So far though it must probably be worth all the collateral damage , it is for the greater good they ll say . It now remains to be seen  what will happen longer term with a potentially immune system undermining poison in your system.  Do trust the Big Pharma goons though, after all they have a clean history of being trustworthy, have they not ?
FromBrussels
FromBrussels
4 years ago
Reply to  FromBrussels
I forgot to add that ‘as many Covid deaths as possible’ was also a well organised part of the anti Trump campaign by the deep state, politically correct establishment !  …After Joe’s inauguration the ‘ruthless’ covid  ticker was immediately removed from the  CNN screen, tells you something about msm ‘neutrality’ …bwah…..I feel like throwing up..
Doug78
Doug78
4 years ago
Reply to  FromBrussels
You are pulling our collective legs I believe.
Doug78
Doug78
4 years ago
To put in perspective we are now down to levels we would see in a Flu season in deaths and hospitalisations and that should make people happy because it is good news.
Secondly the RNA vaccines are Gene Therapy and personally I am fine with that because I know what it is and I am old enough for it not to matter much if it turns bad which I doubt it will. Is is true that these vaccines are authorized only for emergency use. In normal times it takes at least two to four years of trials to get completely authorized so the NIH will probably do it next year at the earliest. The NIH is can’t do it earlier because possible long-term effects aren’t known yet because they become apparent only in the long term.
It would be nice to have had the time to test them thoroughly but we didn’t have the time so we made a choice that was approved by almost everybody and most people have taken the vaccine. Some people have not and that’s OK because covid is not smallpox or something like it and to impose it on everyone is risky. The cure could be worse than the disease. It probably isn’t but we will see in a few years. When it comes to biological systems you can’t rule out anything. We made a choice early on to treat covid like a possible new major killer such as the 1918 Flu or Yellow Fever, something that kills 10% of the population. The Chinese lockdowns freaked everybody out. Fortunately it turned out to be bad but nowhere near the major killers but many people still see it as something akin to the Black Plague and that everyone has to get vaccinated or we all are going to die.
Covid has killed five or six million people in the world  in  a world where few are vaccinated. The 1918 Flu killed 60 million in a world where the population was less than one third of what it is now. What is missing in the dialogue is perspective. It’s all about posturing at this point. Too many are using the “Noble Lie” as an excuse to lie because they like to lie and they want to feel noble about it. 
 
Jojo
Jojo
4 years ago
Reply to  Doug78
Fine but these “vaccines” ARE going to be approved sooner rather than later because doing so is viewed as a means to force more people to accept the jab.  The ends always justifies the means in real life!
Dr. Odyssey
Dr. Odyssey
4 years ago
This keeps it personal.
Jojo
Jojo
4 years ago
Reply to  Dr. Odyssey
Nope. You rolls the dice, you see what comes out.  Sometimes you get 7/11 on the first roll, sometimes you make your number, other times you crap out.  People will always have “stories” to tell if they won or lost at whatever they game they chose to play.  In the end it’s all meaningless.
15% of the USA continues to smoke cigarettes despite years and years of PSA’s from people begging them to quit as they suffer through the final stages of lung cancer and decades of scientific evidence of the havoc that cigarette smoking cause in the body.
Hollyberries
Hollyberries
4 years ago
Hello from the UK, I can think of a handful of reasons why people would not want to be vaccinated, all of them quite rational to me. There is such a thing as natural or acquired immunity, young people seem less vulnerable and will have weighed up the benefits with the risk of adverse reactions, and others have concerns about priming their immune system with a technology they do not fully understand. Some have gone so far to read the trial data which is flimsy.  It does not build confidence to ignore these things, suggesting that you are selfish if you hesitate. Correct me if I am wrong but there is no evidence to suggest that the unvaccinated are more likely to spread the disease than those who have already been infected or are now vaccinated. The risk is all on the unvaccinated and if we believe what the pundits say, we are to die a horrible death. It does seem that if we were to be visited with an epidemic then we are fortunate that Covid 19 has shown itself to be relatively benign in the scheme of things. IFR rates seem low, cases are not hospitalisations. It seems my own risk is vanishingly small. The only way the authorities can get me to participate is by a process of social exclusion. This they are attempting more or less successfully. I resent it as you can well imagine.
Dean2020
Dean2020
4 years ago
Jojo
Jojo
4 years ago
Reply to  Dean2020
“Interesting”?  This is far more than just “interesting”.  There is a wealth of important information in this document, nicely laid out and focused, likely  because it is a lawsuit and not some rambling media story written by a journalist with no scientific education.
This is must reading for all!
Jojo
Jojo
4 years ago
“The beauty of it all is that if enough people get vaccinated, the rate of vaccinations itself will eventually cause Covid transmissions to die out.”
Nope.  The mRNA/DNA vaccines do not provide full spectrum protection as natural immunity does.  We have just seen from the latest CDC report that even the so-called vaccinated people can still spread significant amounts of Covid virus to others, which will then allow the virus to mutate, which will then require periodic Pharma booster shots, ad infinitum.
The human body has pretty much perfected immunity over the past eons.  OTOH, Western medicine is all about treating the symptoms (die in a hospital in this case), not provide lasting, underlying immunity to the virus.
Jojo
Jojo
4 years ago
Nothing Will Convince Some Like a Near-Death Experience “
Yeah, same as those lung cancer/smoker PSA’s convince people to give up smoking. 
The reality is that the death rate from Covid over the past 16 months is a low 0.19% of the USA population.  For those not too good at math, that means you have a 99.81% chance that you WILL NOT DIE from Covid.  Sounds like a nice high number to me!
You can’t argue with math and you look like a fool when you do so.
Jojo
Jojo
4 years ago
30 million people in the USA have already had Covid and survived over the past 16 months.  They have natural antibodies to protect them.  Logically, if you can demonstrate Covid antibodies, then there isn’t any need to get vaccinated.  But that throws a wrench into black & white vaccinated/unvaccinated augment, no?  And how would the so-called “vaccine passports” work for those with positive Covid antibodies who choose not to get an unneeded vaccine?
I’ll be raising these questions across the web over the next few days.
Freddy
Freddy
4 years ago
I totally agree.  
Someone asked why “cures” are not allowed to be promoted.
It is because vaccines are now only on Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) basis.
If they admit there is a “cure” then ALL COVID-19 VACCINES EUAs HAVE TO BE PULLED and stopped immediately.
Let that sink in…….
Pfizer et al, are at present desperately still trying to get full approvals (instead of just EUAs)….
(after injecting them into hundreds of millions of people).
They adamantly demanded and obtained immunity from lawsuits…(so they are not even backing the vaccines as safe themselves….
why are some people on this website, and elsewhere, claiming the vaccines are safe?
….when the vaccine makers themselves refuse to back their own product safety?)
Vaccine makers have hundreds of billions at stake, so they have to smear other “cures” like Ivermectin.
It is quite cheap and easy to do so (especially if you have no soul).
Thus, they fought all cures….even though many studies have proven that these things you mentioned work.
e.g. Many of the studies are RCTs (Random Controlled Trials).
By comparison, all Covid-19 vaccines are not based on RCTs.
Let that sink in….
Here is the website that summarizes the 30 RCTs for Ivermectin,,,(60 trials, 574 scientists, 21,814 patients) just for Ivermectin.
74% improvement in early treatment and 85% improvement in prophylaxis use.
If you click around, you can see efficacy percentage results for the other things you mentioned based on studies.
All studies combined, pooled effects, Early Stages results: 
Quercitin (76%), Curcumin (71%),  Ivermectin (70%), Zinc (47%) , Vitamin D (42%), HCQ (27%) , Ramdesivir (22%), Vitamin C (20%).
Best of health to all.
goldguy
goldguy
4 years ago
Reply to  Freddy
Yes, you are correct on all accounts.  I might add that masks are pretty much useless.  I’ve been saying this for about a year or so.  The CDC has come out and finally told the public that the covid virus is in aerosol form as well, so obviously masks don’t work…
We’ve been lied to over and over for 18 months, and people wonder why we don’t have people lined up to get the jab??? Really?
goldguy
goldguy
4 years ago
The screaming and the threats are all they have left…we were sold on the jabs being the solution; you would not get seriously ill and you would not spread the virus to others, and than get your life back. The CDC data shows the opposite. The narrative is all but over.  
I am older, and I have never seen this nation in such a weak pathetic state.  The crying and gnashing of teeth over a virus that kills older people like myself, but pretty much does nothing to anyone else.  
The United States of America is anything but United.  
I still have the freedom and choice for my healthcare needs.  The way this country is going, that freedom could be gone in a heartbeat.
If you choose to take the jab, take it, it does not matter to me, it’s your freedom of choice, and you will live with the consequences, good or bad, the same as the people who choose not to take the jab.
tbergerson
tbergerson
4 years ago
How many of those who died would be alive, if, instead of the treatment protocol advocated by the government (Fauci) being “go home, if you get really sick go to the hospital where we might treat you with stuff” it were, “the moment you realize you have COVID, take Zinc and HCQ (to help zinc uptake), take Ivermectin, lots of vitamin D, and vitamin C (all of this to reduce viral replication), and if you have reached the inflammation stage, take steroids.”?  Basically the MATH+ protocol (censored).  Maybe more than half those who have died? 
I am vaccinated.  I am in my 50s.  If you are over 40 or 45 then yeah get the vaccine.  Don’t make me get my 16 year old get it (risk from vaccine probably higher than risk from COVID).  Dont make those who have already had COVID get it.  These are simple things.  Censored things.  The country and the world have gone mad.  This article doesn’t help.
JG1170
JG1170
4 years ago
Being anti-covid vaxx does not make you a knuckle-dragging anti-vaxxer. Just like saying that most or all of the observed climate change is either natural and/or un-addressable even if partially man-made, does not make you a climate change “denier”.
TexasTim65
TexasTim65
4 years ago
It’s actually Blacks and Hispanics that are the most unvaccinated, among the general population. So it’s not Republicans or cultists etc.
Asians are the highest at 68%, Whites at 48%, Hispanic at 41% and Blacks at 36%.
I’ve read (including from Black bloggers) that Black people have a higher distrust of government than anyone else and thus are the least likely to want to take a vaccine.
shamrock
shamrock
4 years ago
At the risk of seeming gauche, is it possible the republicans kill enough of their own voters by November 2022 to flip some elections?
JG1170
JG1170
4 years ago
Reply to  shamrock
Hmm, you seem to be a bit concerned. Are you worried the mail-in ballot fraud machine won’t work its magic again for the midterms?
Jojo
Jojo
4 years ago
Reply to  shamrock
If the Covid scaremongering keeps up, I’m waging that the Pubs will take back Congress and in 2024, the presidency.
dguillor
dguillor
4 years ago
The more outlandish a belief is the more it can prove your loyalty to the tribe.
Carl_R
Carl_R
4 years ago
Re: the 630k deaths, it is important to remember that the “official count” is, and always has been, unofficial. It’s a progress tracking tool, and nothing more. In the end, the death toll to Covid will be determined the same way as it always has been, for every other pandemic. Attempting to count deaths is an exercise in futility because you count a few that you shouldn’t have included, and you miss a lot that you should have included. The one, and only thing that is easy to count accurately is total deaths. That is why Pandemic death tolls are always ultimately computed using “excess deaths”.
In normal years, the CDC counts about 7,000 deaths from the flu, and then uses “excess deaths” to determine that the actually death toll was 50,000. The same will happen with Covid, and the “count” will be discarded, and replaced with a higher number computed from excess deaths.  It amuses me to see various states fudging their “counts”, as if they believe the counts themselves have value.  They don’t, and adjustments to the count, whether up or down will be irrelevant.
Mish
Mish
4 years ago

Sigh 

https://twitter.com/Huber8Ronald/status/1421623777843109893

 I had to check
other tweets by the same person to see if that was sarcasm. I do not believe it
was.

Mish
Carl_R
Carl_R
4 years ago
Reply to  Mish
Well, he’s clearly wrong. Whatever one wants to call it, it can not be a “Gene modification therapy”, because it can’t modify genes. What it can do is instruct cells to make proteins. Perhaps he should call it a “protein assembly therapy”?   For what it’s worth, the process is that DNA makes mRNA, and mRNA causes ribosomes to make proteins.
Jojo
Jojo
4 years ago
Reply to  Carl_R
The COVID vaccines have not been approved by the FDA; (they are administered under an Emergency Temporary Standard, ETS). COVID “vaccines” are not true vaccines in the legal or historical sense because they do not prevent the disease; they simply reduce the response to the disease.
JG1170
JG1170
4 years ago
This basically means all the numbers they are putting out are worthless. Garbage in garbage out. Nice way to make certain states look like “hotbeds” due to their cases (cases being the most worthless statistic, with hospitalizations and deaths being the real figures one should concern themselves with…and you can’t even trust the death figures due to the extreme age of many casualties and their comorbidities).
QTPie
QTPie
4 years ago
Some people hospitalized with the virus still vow not to get vaccinated, and surveys suggest that the majority of unvaccinated Americans are not budging. Doctors in COVID units say some patients still refuse to believe they are infected with anything beyond the flu. “We have people in the ICU with COVID who are denying they have COVID,” said Dr. Matthew Sperry, a pulmonary critical care physician who has been treating Greene’s husband. “It doesn’t matter what we say.”
You just can’t fix stupid I guess.
Reminds me of that old Doobie Brothers’ song… “What a fool believes he sees – no wise man has the power to reason away.”
Mish
Mish
4 years ago
In  two days I believe I wrote 2 posts the @Realist will agree with. I suspect that is a new record.
Doug78
Doug78
4 years ago
Reply to  Mish
A stopped clock is right twice a day.

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