For a moment try to forget everything you know or don’t know about Covid and the vaccines and the pandemic.
Now let’s imagine a country (shh Australia) where a vaccine has been released in response to a global virus. A country where more than 95%1 of the population 16 years and over has now had two doses of this vaccine and where over 60% have had 3 doses. Imagine this vaccine has been declared safe and effective.
Now what would you expect to see?
Firstly, what would we expect to see if the vaccine is effective? First thing I would expect is that no one who is vaccinated should be coming down with Covid. Clearly that isn’t the case but luckily someone explained to me that this vaccine doesn’t actually prevent you catching it, it just reduces your chances of serious illness and death. Oh ok, thanks for the update.
So in that case I would expect that hardly anyone who got vaccinated is getting sick or dying? Let’s check on that…ok nope that’s not happening. Hmm.
How about this? Let’s go the other way and say the vaccine does absolutely nothing, i.e. it’s not effective whatsoever. So in that case we would expect the rate of those getting very sick and dying from Covid would be irrelevant to vaccination status. (Ok probably should inform you now I’m not a mathematician or a scientist, just a person with a brain, so my figures aren’t exact.) So if the vaccine is making no difference at all then I would expect the number of people in hospital from Covid would be fairly representative of the rate of vaccination, i.e. if 95% of people are vaccinated and it makes no difference then around 95% of people in hospital would be vaccinated. Hmmm, getting closer.
But hang on Jennifer, some of those people got vaccinated ages ago and their immunity has waned. And also there’s a higher proportion of people with co-morbidities in the vaccinated group. Ok blah blah blah. Making some allowance for those factors then, let me say that there should at least be some obvious difference. Like say only 50% of people in hospital are vaccinated. Nope that’s not happening either? Well I just can’t solve this mystery, perhaps because I’m not an expert.
So what about their claim that the vaccine is safe? I would be expecting to see a similar profile report in VAERS and other vaccine safety monitoring sites that is in line with previous vaccines. Obviously we have to take into account that there are many many more of these particular vaccines that have been administered, but still, ratio wise they should be similar. I came across a graph that indicates the complete opposite of this, perhaps you’ve seen it? In fact it indicates there have been more reports of adverse events to these vaccines than there have for all vaccines combined for the last 30 years. Well that doesn’t sound right does it?
I would also be expecting to not read daily about young people suddenly dying in droves. I would be expecting not to hear daily reports of healthy people so devastated by their vaccine adverse event that they can’t live normal lives any more. I would certainly not be expecting websites like Jab Injuries Australia to exist.
I’m just a normal gal thinking about things and asking questions. Because asking questions is a normal and healthy thing to do. Right?