10/29/2021
As vaccines continue to fail and more and more studies come out that show that vaccinated people can acquire and transmit the virus, the more we keep hearing but it reduces the severity.
First off, there is zero proof of that. It's impossible to know that, because if a vaccinate person gets Covid, there is no way to know what the severity WOULD have been if not vaccinated.
I'm not vaccinated and I had a mild case. I can easily say that it would have been worse had I been vaccinated. Prove me wrong. You can't. We need to stop letting them get away with this lie.
Second, how would we tell if it is reducing the severity? Lets look at data in Maine. As of 10/28 there have been 103k confirmed or probable cases and 2773 hospitalizations which I would consider a severe case. So that's 2.7%. Now of course that assumes no other cases in Maine that were never confirmed or listed as a probable, case like mine or other largely asymptomatic people. We know that there have been far more people that have had it in Maine so that reduces the 2.7% lower.
It also assumes that all 2700 people were there because of Covid when we know many were there for something else.
But lets take the 2.7% number which is what it was before vaccines as well. So out of 100 unvaccinated people, 3 might have a severe case. Out of 100 vaccinated people, best case is that you have 1 or 2 out of 100 instead.