Subj : Re: COVID-19 demographics
To   : Mike Powell
From : Jeff Thiele
Date : Thu Oct 20 2022 16:29:45

On 20 Oct 2022, Mike Powell said the following...
 MP> So you removed the "personal stories" but then left in the opinion parts?

I removed the anecdotal parts and left the parts dealing with facts about
demographics.

 MP> The only parts that are not opinion are the first two sentences of the
 MP> second paragraph I quoted above.

You left a lot of facts unquoted.

 MP> The rest assumes that people who did
 MP> what they were told and got the shots didn't die.

No, it doesn't. It never says that. It says that "people who did what they
were told" reduced the death rate of their demographic. Less of them died,
which is not the same as saying that none of them died.

 MP> It also assumes that
 MP> there was no misinformation before that time,

No, it doesn't. If you read the article, it says that black people were also
susceptible to misinformation but due to the massive impact of COVID-19 on
their communities, they came to the conclusion faster than white people that
the vaccines and other guidelines were in their best interest and that of
their communities.

 MP> and assumes that people
 MP> who were set against getting the shot would have waited until Autumn,
 MP> 2021, to finally decide not to get it.

No, it doesn't. It tracks the death rates among the two demographics over
time.

 MP> It is probably easily explained by the first sentence.  By Autumn 2021,
 MP> most people were no longer following masking or distancing guidelines.

The catch is in the demographics of that "most."

 MP> Some places were also forcing their workforce back into the office by
 MP> then.

And some of those employees were vaccinated while others weren't.

 MP> Something it doesn't mention (or that you left out), is that
 MP> by that point, the gaps between the continued effectiveness of the three
 MP> shot flavors (Moderna, Pfizer, and J&J) were growing.

The gaps between the vaccines is not nearly as large as the gap between being
vaccinated and not being vaccinated.

 MP> In Autumn, 2021, when I went to get my booster, the medical professional
 MP> who administered it was suggesting that people who got J&J probably
 MP> needed to get two boosters (of a different flavor), and my own doctor
 MP> told me that patients who got Moderna orignally were doing much better
 MP> at not getting sick than patients who got one of the other two.

The people who got one of the other two were doing much better than those who
got none at all.

Jeff.

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