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Covid vaccines - thread banned users in First Post

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,248 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Where is this data? You haven't provided any information showing what you are claiming.

    But let's say you do have the data.

    Are there unusual patterns in the data, different age groups or conditions to what's expected. Or is it just 'more' of the expected.

    Adjust the data for the demographic changes - excess mortality just looks at the baseline of deaths in previous years. So what baseline is the excess mortality being compared against and has this been messed up by the pandemic deaths.

    Adjust the data for covid deaths.

    Now overlay the excess deaths per Western country with their vaccinations, given that this is the covid vaccine thread.

    Is there correlation?

    Can vaccination rates explain significant differences in excess mortality between Ireland, UK, Spain, France, Germany, Italy?

    For all the data you have supplied so far, I could just as easily state it is the effects of long covid. Or heatwaves. Or the excess mortality figures are wrong / too crude to draw any conclusions from.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭snowcat




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,248 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    This is the graph from that link for Ireland.

    What are we supposed to be seeing that is of concern, other than the Covid spikes???

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭snowcat




  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,784 ✭✭✭hometruths


    Ah, I get it now. They put themselves under pressure. Nobody else put them under pressure. Everybody else respected the fact that it was an individuals choice. But despite respecting that choice, individuals who made the choice not to get vaccinated were discriminated against, and rightfully so.

    Once again it seems I was right to point out there are people here claiming there was never any pressure from any source to get the vaccine.



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  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,784 ✭✭✭hometruths


    Agreed, I also thought they were pretty good on their 5-12 year old recommendations.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭snowcat




  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,784 ✭✭✭hometruths


    Gardening has been mentioned. Having sex standing up also.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,248 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Finland 80% vaccinated.

    Greece 70% vaccinated.

    Where's the excess mortality of concern if you adjust for covid deaths and population shifts since the baseline data?

    Shouldn't the red lines be getting breached?


    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭snowcat


    It was only an observation..I see fertility rates are also reducing. Strange. That climate change thing is really taking off.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 181 ✭✭kernkraft500


    I never said everyone respected their choice, you can see even from this thread alone that choice from either side is still not respected... and yes, during the control of the pandemic, there were scenarios where discrimination between vaccinated and unvaccinated were was justified as it was unchartered land.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,248 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Strange You seem to start speaking in riddles every time the "question you just asked" is challenged with data.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭snowcat


    Data is all well and good once you have the data.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 181 ✭✭kernkraft500


    any links to back that statement up other than graphs showing the excess? (the excess isn't a secret by the way)

    the publicly available statistics still have long term cardiac illness and cancer as the top killers with increases in both... the data seems more indicative to excess mortality due to the shutdown of consultations during COVID, as it can be seen from other countries where the health services opened up much earlier or didn't stop at all during COVID, have lower excess mortality rates.



  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,784 ✭✭✭hometruths


    In January 2021 the EU were pretty clear about what they thought of people being pressurised and discriminated against, when the Parliamentary Assembly adopted a resolution on the matter - Resolution 2361: Covid-19 vaccines: ethical, legal and practical considerations which urged member States and the European Union to:

    7.3.1 ensure that citizens are informed that the vaccination is not mandatory and that no one is under political, social or other pressure to be vaccinated if they do not wish to do so;

    7.3.2 ensure that no one is discriminated against for not having been vaccinated, due to possible health risks or not wanting to be vaccinated;

    That aged well.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭snowcat


    No do you? What you think might me causing it? Are we going to blame the lockdowns? I said the lockdowns would do this 2 years ago and was ridiculed by the pro lockdown addicts.



  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,784 ✭✭✭hometruths


    Good point, people who questioned the wisdom of the lockdowns were accused of recklessly putting granny's life at risk.

    Now people who question whether or not the vaccines killed granny are told it was the lockdowns!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 181 ✭✭kernkraft500


    Yep Jan 21, before another wave, before 2 further variants and before most EU countries had even vaccinated their high risk categories....

    Also, only a resolution which is only a recommendation, not a law.

    While the sentiment was nice, pragmatism rightly took over..

    I'm pretty sure Austria crapped all over every single one of those recommendations too (those guys made NPHET look like pussycats)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 181 ✭✭kernkraft500


    You can find it freely on ONS sites, it's not that hard.

    great, do you feel vindicated now? I think it's a **** point to be happy over to be fair.



  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,784 ✭✭✭hometruths


    That was resolution based on confidence in the efficacy of the vaccines. When that confidence turned out to be misplaced, all noble ideals against political, social or other pressure and vaccination went out the window.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 181 ✭✭kernkraft500


    you mean when the vaccination which got rid of the strain it was intended to fight against was being used against variants it wasn't designed to fight, meaning other measures needed to be in place as mitigation, then yes the ideals go out the window so you don't end up back at square one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,248 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    In the study you cited there were 3 times as many cases in unvaccinated as vaccinated during the period of the vaccine rollout.

    You seem to be implying that vaccine mandates were a deliberate ploy undertaken because authorities did not have confidence in the vaccines. Your claim is without merit or foundation.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,784 ✭✭✭hometruths


    No I am implying that the anti pressure/discrimination resolution was adopted when it was believed that the vaccines would prevent covid, lead to herd immunity and our way out of the pandemic.

    When this belief turned out to be wrong, whether from bad trial data or variant, the position shifted to mandates and pressure.

    I struggle with the logic of that. Going from "We have a vaccine that is great, but we totally understand why people might not want to take it and we respect that" to "We have a vaccine that is not so great, so we will mandate and coerce mass vaccination."



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,248 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    What coercion? You keep shifting the word used every time you are challenged on it. It is like trying to pin jellyfish to a wall. It is a deliberate strategy of evasion and obfuscation and going round in circles.

    No wonder you struggle with the logic of it. It didn't happen that way and you have provided zero evidence to convince anyone else of it.

    You talk about bad trial data and then keep ignoring the point to you:

    In the study you cited there were 3 times as many cases in unvaccinated as vaccinated during the period of the vaccine rollout.

    There is absolutely zero evidence of your claim. Negative - all the evidence is to the contrary.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,784 ✭✭✭hometruths


    What coercion?! There were vaccine mandates within the EU!

    You talk about bad trial data and then keep ignoring the point to you:

    In the study you cited there were 3 times as many cases in unvaccinated as vaccinated during the period of the vaccine rollout.

    How does that relate to the vaccine efficacy estimates from the trial - better or worse?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,248 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    There is absolutely zero evidence to suggest that authorities saw 'bad' data and therefore felt they had to use vaccine mandates to get more people vaccinated.

    I'm pointing out that real world data showed significant reduction in cases in 2021 from vaccinations. This was during the period of rollout.

    It doesn't 'relate' directly because it was conducted on a totally different basis. What it does show is that if the authorities were looking at the trial data and looking at early real world signs, they would have seen the vaccines making a significant difference in hospitalisations, severe covid, infections and transmissions.

    So there is absolutely zero evidence they pushed vaccines mandates because they felt the data was bad. All the available data showed the authorities to have a genuine belief that the vaccines would reduce cases and hospitalisations and be beneficial for people to take.

    You have failed to counter this with a single shred of evidence.

    And yes, what coercion?

    How about answering any of the points put to you already on the thread?

    Needing a vaccine to go to places that were shut during the pandemic and re-opened with vaccine passports isn't coercion.

    Needing a vaccine as a condition of the employment contract you signed isn't coercion.

    Vaccine mandates were not coercion. You have failed to show that they amounted to force or threats.

    Coercion: the practice of persuading someone to do something by using force or threats

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,784 ✭✭✭hometruths


    We have no idea why there was such a dramatic shift way from the no pressure, no discrimination, no mandates position. There is no evidence of any reason why. It's just not discussed. But there is no doubt it happened. We can only speculate as to why.

    Vaccine mandates were not coercion. You have failed to show that they amounted to force or threats.

    It is totally pointless arguing this point. Vaccine mandates are coercion. Fact. To argue otherwise is possibly the greatest example of revisionism I have seen so far, and I have seen a few at this stage.

    I am genuinely amazed that anybody would even attempt it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,248 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    You havent shown a fundamental shift. The EU parliament is not an executive body and is not "the EU" and they regularly take positions at odds with other EU bodies or national governments. The average EU parliament member at the time had hardly a deeper awareness of vaccine efficacy than the average citizen.

    Even if there was a shift one could just as easily argue they pushed for mandates because they had more, not less, confidence in the vaccines when they saw the real world data showing significant reductions in cases and protection v severe covid.

    Its a road to nowhere when you have no actual evidence to support a particular reason.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,784 ✭✭✭hometruths


    they had more, not less, confidence in the vaccines when they saw the real world data showing significant reductions in cases and protection v severe covid.

    do you really believe anybody had more confidence in the vaccines’ ability to end the pandemic in Dec 21 vs Jan 21?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,248 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Changing the goalposts again.

    When were vaccine mandates rolled out?

    It was long before December 21.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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