The Post-Partisan Emporium

All of the Sudden, the Media's No Longer Interested In Blaming COVID on Political Ideology Whoops IM By now, it’s become a truth universally acknowledged that the media must continually be in search of a governor and specific political ideology to blame when COVID cases rise. Well, I’m old enough to remember when it was a truth universally acknowledged. But that was way back in the summer, when cases were rising in the Southern states, mostly run by Republican governors who refused to acquiesce to demands from the media to mandate masks and vaccine passports. The seasons have changed, however, and case trends along with it. The Midwest and the Northeast are now the epicenter of the latest COVID surge. And just like that, inexplicably, the media’s no longer interested in blaming local officials or the political beliefs of residents for the dramatic increase in COVID cases. Imagine that! After scores of hysterical articles on Florida were written, despite the fact that the inevitable...

Infinitely frequent boosters by next July? Booster immunity waning twice faster than original Igor Chudov We are all interested in the “Israeli experiment”, which literally involves an entire country of Israel force-making everyone to participate in an unproven booster experiment. The audacity and chutzpah of making their own country — all young and old people — do something that received ZERO safety testing — cannot be overstated. At least in the US,  Pfizer tested as many as 12 senior citizens  in its booster study submitted to FDA, though all were white. One of my favorite Twitter posters, @RanIsraeli, posted  this amazing article . It shows that protection against infection, dropped to about 50% in just  three months post-booster . I would like to remind everyone that “effectiveness” of the Pfizer vax,  takes six months to drop 50% after initial vaccination . And a fter booster, it is only three months . Those of us who remember high school math, would note ...

I'll end with a warning about data analysis. Bartram Nov  15 Comment Share For anyone paying attention there’s one thing missing from my analysis so far. It is a big thing quite visible to anyone that has glanced at the spreadsheet offered by the Office for National Statistics. Even worse, one particular aspect of the data has been going around the internet, and this aspect relates to the data I’ve not touched on. The data I’ve not discussed yet is the deaths data for those aged 10 to 59, and the aspect of the data that is interesting people is: Age specific death rate per 100,000 per week for all causes of death, for individuals aged 10 to 59, for the week ending 24th September: Unvaccinated: 0.9 Double vaccinated: 2.2 But surely this is the most important aspect of the data so far! This quite clearly says that the young double vaccinated are 2.5 times more likely to die than the unvaccinated! The vaccines are killing people! Why on earth would I leave such a bombshell un...

Did the vaccination of those least likely to die also affect with-covid deaths? Bartram Nov  15 Comment Share In the last post we talked of non covid deaths — I’m now going to be discussing applying the same data set to deaths with covid. We’ve seen in the previous post that it appears that the impact of vaccination on non-covid deaths appears to be caused by a decision to not vaccinate those who were most likely to die; these individuals were concentrated into the small group of unvaccinated, making their average mortality markedly worse than that of the vaccinated. But what about covid deaths? Were those who were very ill and likely to die soon more likely to die with covid? I see three mechanisms which might cause this to occur: We are talking about deaths with covid. Some of them might have caught covid near to the point of death anyway. They were frail — thus if they caught covid it might be more likely to kill them. Thus the effect of covid might have been to bring t...

How can the vaccine affect those not vaccinated? Bartram Nov 14 Comment Share Summary: In this series of three posts I discuss a recent data-set that provides death by vaccination status for the first 10 months of this year. In part 1 I discuss how the data for deaths other than with covid only make sense if they only vaccinated those least likely to die and thus concentrated those most likely to die in the unvaccinated group; in part 2 I discuss how this will have impacted on deaths with covid, and suggest that this will have significantly exaggerated the ability of the covid vaccines to protect against death in official estimates of vaccine effectiveness; and in part 3 I discuss how the data for the youngest age group, those aged 10 to 59, do not offer any value and could be interpreted erroneously. On the first of November a new data set came out — deaths by vaccine status for England. Despite all the daily briefings on covid deaths and vaccination numbers, any data on outc...