Yesterday I read Alex Berenson’s blog on Covid and hospital data. He is curious about hospital coding data with regards to Covid. If you have any experience with the medical system at all, you know full well that it is super meaningful how the person at admitting codes the data. It can mean getting paid by insurance, or not.
In the comments section, I asked a question. Here it is:
Do we have any objective data on how many people with a Covid vaccination are getting sick with Covid?
It is a simple question and should be easy to answer. You’d see how many people received the vaccination and how many reported getting Covid post-vaccination. Obviously, you wouldn’t catch all the cases because relatively few people that get Covid actually go to a doctor or hospital. But, you’d start to get some idea of the effectiveness of the vaccine.
You also could compare it to other vaccines like measles or mumps. Looking at the infection rates of people who received various vaccines would allow you to compare and contrast and decide on the efficacy of the vaccine.
Of course, since the very beginning, data on Covid has been manipulated by politicians and bureaucrats. An agency even changed the definition of what a vaccine was.
So, answering the question is hard to do objectively.
This is why there are anecdotes. All of a sudden in the comments section I saw an anecdote. I commented that anecdotes do not really matter and we need objective data.
As soon as you see a politician launch into a story, shut your ears. They aren’t doing that to inform you but persuade you. So many times hard objective data flies in the face of the stories politicians tell.
Objective, not manipulated data. Most of the hot button issues of our time are full of manipulated politicized studies that aren’t true hypothesis tests of what they are studying. They start with a conclusion and set up the study to prove that conclusion. The study is then fed to a megaphone that blasts it out. They aren’t objective.
Anecdotes tell the story, objective transparent data proves the anecdote.
I see on forum after forum all over social media anecdotes that prove the vaccine works or it doesn’t. When you bring up data to the people that want to vaccinate every single living thing on earth that people receiving the vaccine are getting sick, they immediately say you need to get boosters for other vaccines.
They aren’t necessarily wrong on their facts but they are certainly wrong on their perspective and framing. I don’t need the measles, mumps, tetanus, polio booster every six months.
I pinged the Children’s Health Defense Project. They are trying to get objective data on Covid and vaccines so people can make objective decisions about vaccinating children. The data shows that on the whole, no one healthy under the age of 20 has died of Covid. Objectively, there is no need to mask, isolate, or vaccinate children. We are intentionally destroying a generation with poor public policy based on the whims of bureaucrats, politicians with a different agenda, and anecdotes.
Here is what Children’s Health Defense responded with to me:
I haven't seen an actual study on this yet. But I am seeing almost everyone with the new variant is reported to have been fully vaccinated. It will be interesting to see that data revealed.
Interesting that they don’t have an opinion and want to see data. It certainly will be enlightening to see data, and my guess is that the people in power don’t want us to see it.
They’d rather scare people with anecdotes.
Interesting commentary on anecdote v research. Both are valuable.
In the world of new discovery, every discovery started as an anecdote.
In the balance is found the truth before the truth arrives in a nice package with a bow.
Who wants to the second person to die from a bad med?
Who wants to be the last person to get the word on ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine?
One thing for sure -- you really can't trust the experts.
JLM
www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com
This is one of the most interesting things about the epidemic. You would think in that in the most advanced country in history, you could get some reliable data. I know it's hard to get a handle on things, but even partial (or bad) data if properly noted can be very useful. And it's never wrong to update and show changes over time. You might want to check out Kevin Roche's ongoing battle with the State of Minnesota concerning rates of infection, hospitalizations and deaths. He also does excellent summaries of recent covid research. He's at Healthy Skeptic: https://healthy-skeptic.com/