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Texas Rep. Captures Nation’s Divide Over Vaccines
realclearpolitics.com ^ | 7/9/2021 | Phillip Wegemann

Posted on 07/11/2021 9:22:49 AM PDT by rktman

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To: Sequoyah101; rktman

THIS is what Sebelius, Fauci, all the DemonRats/Leftists who are determined for us to get the jab know ....

I repeat my comment from https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3975014/posts?page=18#18

For sure, vaccinated people will get sick and die because the drug companies report “relative” risk rather than “absolute” risk ... very misleading. They do this all the time in their drug advertisements .... mathmatical jiu-jitsu.

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https://stuartbramhall.wordpress.com/2021/05/06/vaccine-makers-claim-covid-shots-are-95-effective-but-what-does-that-mean/

“Examining a statistic called absolute risk reduction — the number of percentage points that an individual’s risk goes down if they do something “protective” — the two companies’ COVID vaccines barely make a dent at all, reducing someone’s risk of experiencing COVID symptoms (the clinical trials’ endpoint) by less than 1%. This is the practical number that people are likely to care about most.

Knowing the paltry real-world impact of the injections on someone’s risk of developing COVID symptoms, how many people swayed by the misleading “95% effective” mantra might instead have decided to refuse the vaccines ....

In November — just before the FDA issued its initial Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for Pfizer’s COVID vaccine — Doshi cautioned the public that Pfizer’s and Moderna’s efficacy results seemed dramatic only because the companies derived them from relative risk data.

Absolute risk, simply explained, is “the likelihood that an outcome will occur.” Relative risk “compares the risk of a health event … among one group with the risk among another group.”

Pfizer told the FDA that eight (of approximately 22,000) volunteers in its vaccine group developed a PCR-confirmed case of COVID-19, versus 162 of 22,000 volunteers in the placebo group. Moderna reported a similar spread — five out of 15,000 in the vaccine group versus 90 out of 15,000 in the placebo group.

When one does the math, the Pfizer clinical trial numbers showed: “The risk reduction in absolute terms [was] only 0.7%, from an already very low risk of 0.74% [in the placebo group] to a minimal risk of 0.04% [in the vaccine group].” (Dividing 0.7 — the difference between the two groups — by 0.74 is the mathematical calculation that produced the touted “95% effective” number).”


21 posted on 07/11/2021 10:18:02 AM PDT by Qiviut (Faith is the antidote to fear. Mindset: be a victor, not a victim.)
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To: Qiviut

Figures don’t lie but liars sure as hell figure don’t they?


22 posted on 07/11/2021 10:25:13 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: Jane Long

I like that!

You know Governor Abbott already had TX National Guard go door to door ro vaccinate homebound seniors earlier this year.


23 posted on 07/11/2021 10:43:53 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: rktman

Vaccines that work are one thing, vaccines that have already caused over 9,00 deaths, as well as, over 400,000 adverse reactions is a totally different matter. Especially when employers are demanding that their employees play Russian Roulette, or lose their employment. A shot of an experimental “vaccine” in which some are still being infected with the virus, and many others dying or are left with serious adverse affects. It becomes yet one more thing to further divide this nation to hasten its collapse.


24 posted on 07/11/2021 10:51:16 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Texas resident
justifying the feds to use force against the people who fight back.

Restraint will only work until they try to force our children (and us). Then we are compelled. 😔. That said, I am hoping Republican Governors will do the right thing and restrain the feds.
25 posted on 07/11/2021 11:03:44 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Rusty0604

You know Governor Abbott already had TX National Guard go door to door ro vaccinate homebound seniors earlier this year.


Yep.....back in February, when TX was getting shipments of these shots...trying to get them to homebound seniors.

I guess this can be something else Col West can question Abbott out about, especially since XiDen is taking this plan, and putting it on steroids ;-)


26 posted on 07/11/2021 11:28:11 AM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
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To: Rusty0604

Did they pay you a visit? You may have said, before, apologies if I forgot.

I can just hear what you would’ve told them!! 😂


27 posted on 07/11/2021 11:30:31 AM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
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To: rktman

i’m working on a new sign to post on my entrance gate...

“lead injections administered here”...


28 posted on 07/11/2021 11:45:39 AM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value as well as making people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: Jane Long

no legal liability


29 posted on 07/11/2021 11:49:01 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: joshua c

Yep.

Unprecedented?


30 posted on 07/11/2021 11:49:56 AM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
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To: Jane Long
T-shirts…we need t-shirts!
31 posted on 07/11/2021 11:56:26 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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