Yesterday the Daily Mail covered a new CDC finding.
COVID-19 survivors who do not get vaccinated have higher odds of contracting the virus again than those who do get their shots, a new report finds.
Data analyzed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that those who were previously infected and didn’t get vaccinated were 2.3 times more likely to be reinfected than survivors who were immunized.
The findings provide further evidence supporting vaccination for all Americans, even those who had mild or asymptomatic cases of Covid.
Note that they didn’t actually study any patients, they just matched up entries in the Kentucky databases on cases and vaccinations. And their conclusion that the vaccines were better at producing immunity than does recovering from Covid was contrary to pretty much everything published thus far.
Another problem is that re-infections are almost unheard of. A deep dig through all published case studies covering most of 2020 only found 17 examples of re-infection in the entire world over a year, whereas the CDC claims Kentucky had 248 re-infections in two months. Maybe Kentucky is the hotbed of worldwide Covid reinfections (do we love our sisters too much?), or maybe the CDC is once again showing their incompetence and adherence to politics and narratives instead of science.
Kentucky has run 7,317,475 COVID tests. A meta-analysis of data from New England found an overall regional false positive rate of about 1.19%, which would mean Kentucky should have 87,000 people who had falsely tested positive for COVID. Since we had more tests (7 million) than population (4.47 million), a 1.19% false positive rate would mean 1.95% of our population are people who had a false positive.
In May and June, the period the CDC studied, there 14,241 new COVID patients in Kentucky. Given the random nature of infection, of those 14,241 COVID patients, 277 should be patients who’d previously tested positive but who actually never had COVID.
The CDC study said there were 248 Kentuckians who’d become reinfected, pretty much in line with the expected number of COVID patients who were prior false positives. Taking the CDC data as a good measure of false positives (instead of supporting their narrative), their paper would indicate that Kentucky’s false-positive rate is 1.06% instead of New England’s 1.19%. It’s still good data, it just doesn’t mean what they think it means.
I’ve been ignoring the guidelines and mandates at the governmental level from the start. I respect businesses to do what they want, just as I will in choosing if the business is worth the hassle. I am a vaccinated, but it was my choice, and I waited for data before I chose to get vaccinated. The lasting damage from this will be a citizenry more willing to give up freedom for security. And it seems very willing to date.
Ignoring them won’t work. Conservatives essentially want to be left alone, leftists are relentless about getting their way. Ignoring them just gives leftists time to scream and shame more. They will never stop until things get violent.
Ignore them until, in their determination to overpower your will, they follow into the deep woods.
Some digging may be required.
I saw your post last night and am sorry for your loss.
Indeed, sorry for your loss. I lost my dad similarly. He was already in the hospital and nothing could be done.
Sorry for the late response but my condolences as well.
I prefer ridicule as a weapon.
Ignoring them is a form on nonviolent protest but also easy for those in power to ignore. Should this continue on and we learn with more certainty about origins, then there needs to be a reckoning.
I think we should start a PAC, and raise a couple of billion dollars to end the political career of any politician at any level who issues “mask mandates.” And I don’t mean just elected political careers, but appointments of any kind. Or consulting contracts of any kind. Make sure these people can never, ever have a say in our lives again.
Kat and I went to the Cubs/Nationals games July 30 through August 1, staying at The Warf (awesome place) between games. Mayor Bowser (woof woof!) had declared new mask mandates to take effect July 31, though in a “special” gesture, she mandated that the mandates would apply to Nationals Park the night of July 30, the first game of the series.
Masks were to be worn in any indoor area, including around vendors, and in the bathrooms.
Maybe one in one hundred people did so.
At midnight that night, the “mandate” was to go into effect throughout DC. The hotel where we stayed had a sign to that effect next to the desk in the lobby.
About half the people in the lobby, including many of the staff, ignored it. And no one engaged in “mask shaming,” probably because they were so outnumbered. The same was true at Nat’s Park, where maybe one in 50 people were masked, anywhere – including vendors.
They can mandate all they want, but it doesn’t work unless we comply. And numbers matter. Just DON’T do it!
I’m back in Houston for a couple of days. It’s depressing – the number of people masked up is far higher than in Philadelphia. And a judge is suing Gov. Abbot to remove his mask ban. So much for Texan liberty …
Yesterday the Daily Mail covered a new CDC finding.
The original CDC paper is here
Note that they didn’t actually study any patients, they just matched up entries in the Kentucky databases on cases and vaccinations. And their conclusion that the vaccines were better at producing immunity than does recovering from Covid was contrary to pretty much everything published thus far.
Another problem is that re-infections are almost unheard of. A deep dig through all published case studies covering most of 2020 only found 17 examples of re-infection in the entire world over a year, whereas the CDC claims Kentucky had 248 re-infections in two months. Maybe Kentucky is the hotbed of worldwide Covid reinfections (do we love our sisters too much?), or maybe the CDC is once again showing their incompetence and adherence to politics and narratives instead of science.
Kentucky has run 7,317,475 COVID tests. A meta-analysis of data from New England found an overall regional false positive rate of about 1.19%, which would mean Kentucky should have 87,000 people who had falsely tested positive for COVID. Since we had more tests (7 million) than population (4.47 million), a 1.19% false positive rate would mean 1.95% of our population are people who had a false positive.
In May and June, the period the CDC studied, there 14,241 new COVID patients in Kentucky. Given the random nature of infection, of those 14,241 COVID patients, 277 should be patients who’d previously tested positive but who actually never had COVID.
The CDC study said there were 248 Kentuckians who’d become reinfected, pretty much in line with the expected number of COVID patients who were prior false positives. Taking the CDC data as a good measure of false positives (instead of supporting their narrative), their paper would indicate that Kentucky’s false-positive rate is 1.06% instead of New England’s 1.19%. It’s still good data, it just doesn’t mean what they think it means.
I’ve been ignoring the guidelines and mandates at the governmental level from the start. I respect businesses to do what they want, just as I will in choosing if the business is worth the hassle. I am a vaccinated, but it was my choice, and I waited for data before I chose to get vaccinated. The lasting damage from this will be a citizenry more willing to give up freedom for security. And it seems very willing to date.
Ignoring them won’t work. Conservatives essentially want to be left alone, leftists are relentless about getting their way. Ignoring them just gives leftists time to scream and shame more. They will never stop until things get violent.
Ignore them until, in their determination to overpower your will, they follow into the deep woods.
Some digging may be required.
I saw your post last night and am sorry for your loss.
Indeed, sorry for your loss. I lost my dad similarly. He was already in the hospital and nothing could be done.
Sorry for the late response but my condolences as well.
I prefer ridicule as a weapon.
Ignoring them is a form on nonviolent protest but also easy for those in power to ignore. Should this continue on and we learn with more certainty about origins, then there needs to be a reckoning.
I think we should start a PAC, and raise a couple of billion dollars to end the political career of any politician at any level who issues “mask mandates.” And I don’t mean just elected political careers, but appointments of any kind. Or consulting contracts of any kind. Make sure these people can never, ever have a say in our lives again.
Kat and I went to the Cubs/Nationals games July 30 through August 1, staying at The Warf (awesome place) between games. Mayor Bowser (woof woof!) had declared new mask mandates to take effect July 31, though in a “special” gesture, she mandated that the mandates would apply to Nationals Park the night of July 30, the first game of the series.
Masks were to be worn in any indoor area, including around vendors, and in the bathrooms.
Maybe one in one hundred people did so.
At midnight that night, the “mandate” was to go into effect throughout DC. The hotel where we stayed had a sign to that effect next to the desk in the lobby.
About half the people in the lobby, including many of the staff, ignored it. And no one engaged in “mask shaming,” probably because they were so outnumbered. The same was true at Nat’s Park, where maybe one in 50 people were masked, anywhere – including vendors.
They can mandate all they want, but it doesn’t work unless we comply. And numbers matter. Just DON’T do it!
I’m back in Houston for a couple of days. It’s depressing – the number of people masked up is far higher than in Philadelphia. And a judge is suing Gov. Abbot to remove his mask ban. So much for Texan liberty …