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Monday, January 24, 2022


3 comments:

mudpuddle said...

they're catching it by the hundreds around here... lots of idiots in this part of the world...

Cleo said...

That's so weird. On Google (from John Hopkins University stats) it's says you're 71% full vaxxed, 77% with one shot and 54% with the booster. Makes one wonder if anyone knows what they're talking about.

Personally I think they're lying. We're supposed to be over 90% vaccinated in this province and when I ask groups of people, I run across so many unvaccinated people that it couldn't possibly be 90% unless by a complete miracle I'm running into everyone unvaccinated.

At this point, I know way more people who have had a bad adverse reaction to the vaccine (including 2 near deaths) compared to no one who has been near death or even in the hospital from COV ID. We do have lots of "cases" but I know LOTS of people who had it and for most it's like a cold if they have any symptoms at all. I was concerned at first but since I started to look around and ask people's experiences I've found reality isn't what I'm seeing on the news. So I've decided to go with my experiences.

CyberKitten said...

@ Mudpuddle: I see that the States are still suffering badly from it. When the final analysis is done in a few years it'll be interesting to see why some countries handled things well whilst others really struggled. SO many lessons to be learned here I think!

@ Cleo: Stats are funny things. The problem looking at UK numbers is that England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland all produce figures independently and (probably) use slightly different information - plus there's always some delay between countries getting the data into central points. On top of this is that this data set (from the BBC) covers ages 12+ where the last data I saw covered only 16+. The numbers 'feel' right though.

I don't think you can draw valid conclusions from your own local personal experience. For instance I think the booster rate is lower than expected because all of my friends and family have had their boosters. I don't know of anyone who *hasn't* had at least two shots, so even the 84% seems a bit low. But around 10% of the population who hasn't been vaccinated at all is (very roughly) around 4-5 million people here. It's quite possible that I could stop 50 random people in the street and find that almost none of them have had any shots which would make the official stats look VERY untrustworthy!

I know of a few people who were quite ill after their first vaccination (I felt a bit 'rough' for around 24 hours) and I don't know of any Covid deaths or even hospitalisations in my immediate friend/family group or even people who know someone who knows someone who died. But that doesn't mean no one has died or even that the official figures are questionable. It just means that personal knowledge/anecdote isn't a reliable source of information.