There's a bit of funny business going on with the counts. Much like death counts are 'with covid' not 'because of covid' even though they're widely accepted as covid deaths (and the 3 most prevalent comorbidities are the three largest causes of death - each individually surpassing covid, including old age which has a 100% success rate...). What's happening with breakthrough is they aren't asking patients with symptoms if they are vaccinated.
It's gotten so bad in Israel they're now 'reclassifying' everyone with < 3 jabs as unvaccinated. I assure you that's not because the vaccines are wildly effective, or just happen to only last the summer when all caronavirusses recede as they have for the last century we've been studying them. Some more info:
Here's pfizer's phase 3 trial results: Trial results
Here's the FDA approval letter: Approval Letter
In data science there's a concept of statistical significance - when you have a lot of it you use it to prove your case. In December we'd just completed a trial with 44,000 people, 21,700 roughly in the control group and vaccinated group. Both had a 99%+ success rate. Again, the placebo group was '99% effective' against covid infection too - wasn't reported, it's rawly shared in both documents. 170 total cases - no statistical significance against a population of 380 million. The FDA approval last week uses the exact same data, although > 150M Americans have been vaccinated. I assure you, that's not because the data we're getting on vaccinated Americans is overwhelmingly positive, that'd be a much easier way to win public support.
Instead, we have an FDA approval letter - celebrated wall to wall as an indication of vaccine efficacy - that lists a handful of serious side effects that need 2-3 years to be studied before the drug can be mas marketed. Emergency authorization is still in effect, explicitly written because there IS NOT an FDA approved treatment available at this time. Again, FDA approval for Pfizer = Moderna, J&J, Astrazenica off the shelf - that hasn't happened.
Again - if it works, say it works, show the data. What's actually happening is things are getting worse, they're showing no data, and misleading the public about why things are getting worse. In reality, this is new tech, that wasn't approved for the last 15 years because it was so dangerous. And if it were about saving lives we'd be talking about natural immunity - which has worked for the last 4 billion years, and other treatments. Instead we only talk about vaccines - more effective if your primary focus is making a buck. We don't have good data to support success rate, which is why we get tortured language from the higher ups and media, and reliably the goal posts for 'success' move about every 3-4 months, in time for the next flu season.
Try to find an RCT study (either now or at any time over the last 5 years) that:
- Masks work
- mRNA vaccines are more effective than natural immunity
- mRNA vaccines are safe for pregnant women (NIH started their study last month, to be completed in 2024 - good thing we haven't been mass vaccinating pregnant women)
- mRNA vaccines are safe to administer: no other vaccine in history has been approved or left on the shelf with > 1000 deaths attributed to it, even in an emergency. Check out the numbers these two are posting
Disclaimer: I'm clearly a nut and read too much about this stuff. I'm also fanatical about my health, I got into all this because they asked us to wear masks while exercising in the Gym where I live, which, like above, there's 0 evidence that young healthy people transmit the virus in the gym. And I got COVID. One of the worst sicknesses of my life. So by no means do I think it's not real. It's just grossly exaggerated, and these vaccines are not what they're sold as. It's much easier to show your solution works than what these guys are doing, please start asking questions, esp if you're thinking about shot 3.
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