Corona virus, China major city lockdowns, etc.

[Shaggy Hiker]

That's all pretty much anti-math. Even if we take that "possible that 50,000 Americans have been killed by the vaccine" as being true, we also have somewhere over 500,000 who have been killed by COVID, regardless of how badly you count. So, even in the worst case scenario that the report is actually true, we'd STILL be better off vaccinating.

However, that article is nonsense anyways, and I have no hope for the others, either. It's a case of having a result you want to reach and massaging some data to show that. I remember a similar campaign regarding the stock market....but I suppose the analogy is too US-specific to be worth repeating, as the argument was based on the DOW, which is a US stock market metric that may not mean anything to anybody else. Had I actually listened to that, I would be a whole lot poorer, but fortunately, I knew enough about math to realize that the advice was based on seriously specious interpretation of the data.

One thing that I found amusing from the first link was the bit about 4,000 people have already died after receiving the vaccine. There have been several hundred million doses of the vaccines administered in the US alone. I've got some bad news, in case you haven't heard it: ALL of those people will die in the next 80-100 years, almost certainly. Of course, most of the unvaccinated people will also die in the next 80-100 years, but as it turns out, there will be more unvaccinated people who will NOT die in that time than vaccinated people.

I hope I don't have to explain that there's a reason for that which has nothing to do with the vaccine.