World COVID vaccination map with the US highlighted
Image: The New York Times
24 November 2022
For a number of months, various independent reporters and researchers expressed their concerns about both efficacy and safety of the COVID-19 vaccines which only successfully went through the authorization process due to the COVID pandemic emergency. Normally, a technology like that would be viewed as experimental and never mandatory.
Immediately following their introduction data started emerging showing that, contrary to the official narrative (promoted by many luminaries, including US President Joe Biden) the vaccines were not all that "safe and effective" as the vaccinated were getting and spreading COVID, while suffering unusual negative side effects at rates that would normally be viewed as alarming.
However, we live in a time that is anything but normal, and those voicing these fully understandable concerns were largely dismissed, sometimes oppressed, and labeled "nuts" and "conspiracy theorists". But now, it would seem that "conspiracy theorists" have somehow infiltrated infiltrated The Washington Post ranks as the paper has just published a report stating outright that the majority of COVID deaths in the US (58%) is now among the vaccinated Americans. The New York Times' vaccination tracking database currently lists 80% of Americans as having received at least one vaccine dose. Officially, that does not make them fully vaccinated but we will go with that estimate as a rough reference point. Going by the estimate, one's likelihood of COVID death while vaccinated is about 34% of one's unvaccinated counterpart. That is a low estimate, though, and in reality protection is even less impressive than a reduction of two thirds. So, given that these vaccines are not perfectly safe, as I have already stated, it makes their usefulness even more questionable.
References
Covid is no longer mainly a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Here’s why.
McKenzie Beard, The Washington Post, 23 November 2022
Joe Biden blunder: US President claims you won't get Covid if you have the vaccine
Gerrard Kaonga, Express.co.uk, 23 July 2021
Tracking Coronavirus Vaccinations Around the World
Josh Holder, *The New York Times, archived 12 November 2022
Vermont, the most vaccinated state, sees unprecedented spike in COVID infections
@borepstein , 1 November 2021
Washington, DC elite, all vaccinated, hold party that turns into a superspreader event
@borepstein , 28 April 2022
US COVID vaccines: their power fleeting, their usefulness limited
@borepstein , 7 November 2021
79,000 Australians have suffered an adverse reaction to COVID vaccine shots, as admitted by government and mainstream media
@borepstein , 2 January 2022
I can say that many people were reluctant to get vaccination, but they were got kinda by force to get rid of restrictions. Many of them are now anti-vaxxer.
Absolutely. Though I am not really fond of the term "anti-vaxer" as that presupposes one's rejection of all vaccines, in all situations. I doubt people who don't want COVID shots are that way, in their large majority - they just don't want largely useless and unsafe COVID shots. I can, for example, see a massive benefit to a smallpox vaccine as typically that would keep you immune from a disease that kills up to 20% or more while the risk of death from the vaccine itself is under 0.1%. As you can clearly see that would be a vaccine that can be rationally justified, unlike the COVID shot.
Now as to the coercion you are referring to - yes, that was widespread reality almost everywhere, and that was a crime, IMHO.