For my interlocutors @CalienteDawg and @Boom MFer Dawg, who dismissed what I said because I "picked the smallest state" (Wyoming) which had shown no case increases in spite of having both the highest Delta prevalence and the lowest vaccination rate. You also dismissed me citing no case increases in South Dakota as meaningless because those are rural areas.
It was the public health establishment and media which singled out Wyoming and rural areas, not me. Specifically, it was CNN and Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former FDA commissioner (and now on the board of Pfizer, major proponent of vaccinations, and probably a "top 3" talking head on COVID). They called out Wyoming by name.
In addition, Gottlieb went on to predict that the worst problems with Delta strain would be "pockets... with low vaccination rates and low rates of prior infection, Gottlieb said, like in many rural and southern communities." (emphasis added)
Now that cases are up but in Sunbelt areas and not other low-vaccination areas as he predicted, the narrative-sellers want to jump on just the South but ignore the upper Midwest to say "cases are only up because of unvaccinated and the South proves it!"
You also ignored what I have posted for a few weeks, which is that the entire upper and Front Range west was approaching 70% Delta prevalence one month ago. All of CDC Regions 7 and 8, encompassing 10 states (WY, MT, CO, MO, IA, UT, SD, ND, NE, and KS). Here is a shot of the official CDC variant tracker for the week ending 6/19/21. The pie charts for each region show Delta prevalence as the dark orange slice:
So even though it was CNN/Dr. Gottlieb who raised the issue of Wyoming/rural areas with low vaccination rates, feel free to look at Colorado's COVID-19 case data right now. Includes Denver, a major metropolitan area (It shows almost zero increase with a very high Delta prevalence).
Perhaps this is all so cognitively dissonant you cannot help but simply reject what I am saying, but this is data and not opinion. Remember this comes from the same public health establishment that called states "Neanderthals" for dropping masks in the spring (which was a wildly wrong comment). They are regularly detached from the data.
As my last point, I have previously mentioned that the UK had major Delta case spread in spite of having very high vaccination rates. It is not just the UK. Spain also has high vaccination rates but that country too just went through a major spike in cases almost the equal of their winter spike.
At what point do you begin to allow yourself to question the official government messages and think independently? Ultimately I wouldn't care if they would mind their own business but they keep insisting on messing with my life and the the lives of our children with a consistently flawed approach.
NOTE: One thing the data does say is vaccination reduces your chances of hospitalization or death from COVID-19. Obviously that risk is still clustered in elderly and those with multiple conditions. So following the data says "vaccines are not proving to stop transmission but they are working to reduce hospitalizations/deaths". Public health needs to tell this truth instead of bulls----ting us all the time and more people would probably get vaccinated.
It was the public health establishment and media which singled out Wyoming and rural areas, not me. Specifically, it was CNN and Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former FDA commissioner (and now on the board of Pfizer, major proponent of vaccinations, and probably a "top 3" talking head on COVID). They called out Wyoming by name.
In addition, Gottlieb went on to predict that the worst problems with Delta strain would be "pockets... with low vaccination rates and low rates of prior infection, Gottlieb said, like in many rural and southern communities." (emphasis added)
The Delta variant will cause 'very dense outbreaks' in these five states, expert says | CNN
The Delta variant, a strain of Covid-19 believed to be more transmissible and dangerous than others, is likely to break out in some US communities, a health expert told CBS's "Face the Nation."
www.cnn.com
Now that cases are up but in Sunbelt areas and not other low-vaccination areas as he predicted, the narrative-sellers want to jump on just the South but ignore the upper Midwest to say "cases are only up because of unvaccinated and the South proves it!"
You also ignored what I have posted for a few weeks, which is that the entire upper and Front Range west was approaching 70% Delta prevalence one month ago. All of CDC Regions 7 and 8, encompassing 10 states (WY, MT, CO, MO, IA, UT, SD, ND, NE, and KS). Here is a shot of the official CDC variant tracker for the week ending 6/19/21. The pie charts for each region show Delta prevalence as the dark orange slice:
So even though it was CNN/Dr. Gottlieb who raised the issue of Wyoming/rural areas with low vaccination rates, feel free to look at Colorado's COVID-19 case data right now. Includes Denver, a major metropolitan area (It shows almost zero increase with a very high Delta prevalence).
Perhaps this is all so cognitively dissonant you cannot help but simply reject what I am saying, but this is data and not opinion. Remember this comes from the same public health establishment that called states "Neanderthals" for dropping masks in the spring (which was a wildly wrong comment). They are regularly detached from the data.
As my last point, I have previously mentioned that the UK had major Delta case spread in spite of having very high vaccination rates. It is not just the UK. Spain also has high vaccination rates but that country too just went through a major spike in cases almost the equal of their winter spike.
At what point do you begin to allow yourself to question the official government messages and think independently? Ultimately I wouldn't care if they would mind their own business but they keep insisting on messing with my life and the the lives of our children with a consistently flawed approach.
NOTE: One thing the data does say is vaccination reduces your chances of hospitalization or death from COVID-19. Obviously that risk is still clustered in elderly and those with multiple conditions. So following the data says "vaccines are not proving to stop transmission but they are working to reduce hospitalizations/deaths". Public health needs to tell this truth instead of bulls----ting us all the time and more people would probably get vaccinated.
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