Sounds like the very definition of confirmation bias.I've found my gut instinct is usually correct more often than someone's biased " study."
Funny because that is not what I've seen from you on Christian Forums here, but I don't know how you live your life....I've found my gut instinct is usually correct more often than someone's biased " study."
These excuses reek of SPITE.
As if, yeah maybe it's all good for me and all good for society, but I don't like the way you are trying to convince me to take the vaccine so I'm not going to take it. So THERE!!!
It's conflating "You're not the boss of me!" with "personal freedom". I don't get it, I thought we were grown ups, we're supposed to have grown up, matured, and accepted that I'm not the center of the universe. There are things I have to do, even if I don't like it. I need to work a job to make money to pay bills and keep a roof over my head and to have food on the table. I mean, I'd totally love the freedom to just do nothing but live responsibility-free sipping refreshing drinks on a beach somewhere forever. But that's not how life works.
You say that 'I'd totally love the freedom to just do nothing but live responsibility-free sipping refreshing drinks on a beach somewhere forever'. But where is the responsibility for the vaccine manufacturers? As far as I'm aware, they get to make $Billions, but they don't have to shoulder any responsibility for injuries or deaths.
Figure 2 in this paper shows a pretty clear relationship between increased vaccination rates and decreased case counts. As does the supplemental info linked from the end of their Methods section.
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This article was put up previously and I don't think it was used appropriately that time either.
The "levels of vaccination" across countries aren't going to affect COVID unless those numbers are really closer to 100%.
EG: In the US there is still an unvaccinated population of 10s of millions so of course COVID is able to spread through those populations. So long as there are large populations of unvaccinated people, why would the rates significantly change?
Look at the populations in the hospitalizations, this is where you can see the impact of vaccinations.
The reason why I highlighted that piece at the start is that you are suggesting there is no difference in spread between "vaccinated and nonvaccinated population". To do a proper comparison for THAT you would need to compare vaccinated populations with nonvaccinated populations. This study compares MIXED populations in different countries with different vaccination rates.
In my province we have 78% fully vaxed but up until recently, our province was a disaster (then we locked down and things improved).
If you look at who was in our hospitals, it was 80-90% unvaccinated people....DESPITE them only being about 12% of the population.
The more hype some people see, the less interested they are.
I've found my gut instinct is usually correct more often than someone's biased " study."
Given how large the error bars are, I don't know how much I'd expect a perfectly clear pattern in the lower % vaccinated groups. But the trend is definitely there.I agree it shows a relationship. I think the reason they stated
Across the US counties too, the median new COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people in the last 7 days is largely similar across the categories of percent population fully vaccinated (Fig. 2).
is that you would expect more of a relationship. I ran a line to make it a bit easier to see, but I don' think they would predict 0-5 percent being the same as 45-50 percent, for instance.
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Refer to the 1st post in this thread for an example of this in practice.And you normally find that people use post hoc arguments to justify their initial 'gut instinct' calls and will not admit to how they came to their decision. Even to themselves.
If you don't like the Cornell comparison, look at the UK. Look at the Spain. Look at Israel. They are all highly vaccinated countries and their highest rates of infection in the pandemic were after a high percentage of their population was vaccinated.
United Kingdom COVID: 8,497,868 Cases and 138,629 Deaths - Worldometer
There's been little correlation between vaccination rates and infection rates.
If you don't like the Cornell comparison, look at the UK. Look at the Spain. Look at Israel.
Fortunately, the vaccines ARE preventing most COVID hospitalizations and deaths ...Cornell University - Vaccination not Preventing Infection
I've found my gut instinct is usually correct more often than someone's biased " study."