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- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
The goal posts have moved, now people are afraid of ever getting sick.
It was a disease of the elderly and infirm even before the idiot vaccine.
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And David WS above is correct: people ARE afraid of getting sick and even being around people who are sick (to the nth degree)–unless they are sophisticated, vaccinated people attending celebrity birthday parties, then, oh, yeah, let’s hit the dance floor.
I took my kids to a camp recently where the director said, “we want your kids to get covid like we want them to get the stomach flu.” I was relieved to be leaving them with someone who had a balanced outlook on the virus.
It says 100 breakthrough deaths. How many total deaths, and how long of a period is this? I read the article I found in the Boston Herald that had the above stats. I might have missed it, but all I found was comparing this to the overall vaccinated. I couldn’t find anything about the timeline, or how many total deaths. I wonder if anyone else found what I might have missed. I look on the CDC tracker for MA, and it doesn’t look like there have been that many deaths to begin with. So trying to work this out.
Dave G-
it’s a total ever vaccinated who were later diagnosed.
And yes, that does make comparing it to the current number of vaccinated a very poor practice; I believe it was done after the UK had that outbreak where most of the people who got sick were vaccinated.
Of course, now we’re supposed to all “know” the vaccine does nothing, because of that Cape Cod sex convention scientific malpractice study.
https://yardsaleofthemind.wordpress.com/2021/08/03/coof-insanity-update/
Here’s another example of how statistics are being spun to serve the narrative when the whole truth is almost exactly the opposite. The Illinois “public health” top bureaucrat defends Pritzker’s idiotic mask mandate for schools by claiming a large “percentage increase” in “cases” affecting children between January and July of this year. However, the actual numbers of “cases” show a large decrease.
https://wirepoints.org/lies-damn-lies-and-covid-statistics-using-data-to-justify-illinois-mask-mandate-quicktake/
This morning my wife was watching a daily Covid info livestream from our local big university health system. One of the main virologists was advocating for OSHA regulations to deem vaccination and masks mandatory, and those without to be considered health threats or liabilities. During the same livestream there was also advocation of putting school kids in N95s. (Apparently they are still pushing the “droplet” transmission narrative.) My wife asked the seemingly reasonable question about what kind of treatment is available if one contracts the ‘rona. According to her, the doctor’s demeanor changed and he tersely answered “No,” and said to go home and drink fluids. She said even the news reporter asking the questions seemed a bit taken aback, and he had to walk it back a little to say that there might be monoclonal antibodies available if one hasn’t been fully vaccinated yet.
I’ve been in and out of doctors and hospitals for most of my life with a variety of serious maladies, and after enough time you come to realize they certainly don’t know everything, are often wrong, and you have to do your own research. But this is the first year I’ve begun to actively distrust them. To be fair, I think the average doctor or specialist is more beholden to protocols and such than necessarily possessing any ill intent, but with vanishingly few exceptions the medical establishment certainly hasn’t done much over the past 15 months but completely shred its credibility.
Jason, having taught premeds thermo (and other stuff) I can testify that most (not all) do well in memorizing, but not so well in analysis and critical thinking. I’ll make exceptions of course: my own MD, and some others I’ve known. But don’t exceptions prove the rule?
Frank, that’s my issue. I’m not in the science/math/stats world. My eyes typically glaze over at the sight of too many numbers or equations. But it seems if 1) the Delta Variant is both far more contagious and far more deadly, 2) the unvaccinated make up 95% or more of all new cases, and 3) Delta is the main cause of the new spikes in cases, then shouldn’t the deaths be soaring leaps and bounds above where they were a year, or even half a year, ago? In our state, the deaths have, thank the Lord, been relatively few. Something to my amateur way of thinking doesn’t make sense.
@DaveG, precisely. The facts just don’t match the narrative and they never have, since this bug first became a media “thing”.
Virus mutations are usually more contagious and less deadly. That’s evolution. Viruses that kill the host, kill themselves.