One of those realities that should leave the press asking more questions instead of reading press release propaganda from the Beltway. But, meh.....
A wise thing to do is never believe or listen to much coming out of the CDC. It is particularly bad under the current regime.
File to PC BUMP!
Yes, mysteriously absent. And I just love the political affiliation reason for this rates. I remember when it first came out it was the “Trump Vaccination” and liberals did not want to get it. Depite attempts to throw the covid lies down the memory hole, I still remember it all.
Claudine Gay = PhD. in Fraud.
“Fully” is the key. If you had the two shots in 2021, and the booster in 2022, you are not fully vaccinated because you haven’t had the 2023 booster for the new variant.
But if you’ve had the previous shots, the 2023 variant will probably not hit you very hard, unless you’re old and feeble. That’s why people aren’t too worried.
I hear Arizonians bathe in Ivermectin. Must be nice.
South Dakota?
Well, now they can say that any spike in Covid in Arizona is due to all those unvaxxed conservatives. It will have nothing to do with all the unvaxxed illegal aliens streaming across the border. In addition, they will probably call any illness a Covid variant (new and improved!) also while ignoring those coming across the border. Meanwhile, diseases previously eradicated in the U.S. are making a comeback. Those will also be blamed on the right-wing conspiracists who believe that vaccines cause autism, etc.
Their fear is the lack of selling shots. Down to 33%. Oh, the huge bonus losses.
<< What’s missing is covid death rates in those states. >>
Yep, and you can bet that if the death or even hospitalization rates were higher in the low vax states, the PTB would be screaming it from the rooftops.
What about proper social distancing? Fauci should be 6ft underneath us.
The stats are crap until proven otherwise.
All the stats.
We split time between the San Francisco Bay Area and North Idaho, so I experienced the absolute worst response in CA (total insane tyranny) and the best response in Idaho (where life pretty much went on as normal).
When you look at all the metrics (cases, hospitalizations, ICU admissions, deaths, etc) you find that there is NO difference in outcomes between the two states.
According to CDC, only 15% over 18 are pure-bloods.
Only 7% over 65 are pure-bloods.
They don’t have a break-down for over 70 pure-bloods like me, but I imagine the percent shrinks exponentially as more and more of the “cared for” population is included, who have little or no say in “health care” decisions.
For example, I doubt anyone in an old age home or being cared for by loved ones is in much of a position to decline shots or medication - even if they wanted to.
Still, I had no idea the brainwashing was THAT successful!
There is actually quite a bit of concordance between the low vaccine rates and the Covid death rates.
This website https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
can be sorted by various parameters. The pertinent parameter is “Deaths/1M Population,” because this corrects for population sizes.
The state with the highest death rate per million is Arizona, at 4,640 deaths per million population. After that come West Virginia, Mississippi, Tennessee, and New Mexico, all with over 4,400 deaths per million population.
The states with the lowest death rates are Hawaii (1,485 per million), Vermont, Utah, Alaska, and Washington state (2,121 deaths per million).
Vaccination rates are important for decreasing the burden of Covid death and disability, but so are other public health measures like masking and social distancing.
There have been 1,189,940 deaths from Covid in the US (as of 12/24/2023).
“...there should be a lot more covid deaths in low vax states.”
Which also brings to mind that there have been times when they showed some states, and not said who they were, had higher death rates. If you have a state that has fewer people, the rate will be lower. So they need to go by percentage rather than number. And that figuration has been use before to be misleading. Plus they should also not figure motorcycle accidents as covid deaths either like they did up here in Washington state if they had covid while driving.
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