I'm always wary of precise statistics, especially when they're are bandied about as certitudes....as for the UK's vaccine hesitancy, it appears to me to be greater than 6% for the COVID jab.
73.6% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
I'm always wary of precise statistics, especially when they're are bandied about as certitudes....as for the UK's vaccine hesitancy, it appears to me to be greater than 6% for the COVID jab.
Running out of customers? 90% of adults have had the first jabI want to know why the daily vaccine rate has gone so low.
This is exactly, almost word for word, what those who are sceptical of the vaccine, mask wearing, lock downs, infection numbers, severity and origin source, are saying. Those who do not want the vaccine would say that those who have had it, and support vaccination, have bought into a media and government lie and lack critical thinking ability.....How to counter, well beyond the implementation of the age old believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see , there is a strong case for promoting media literacy and with that critical thinking.
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73.6% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
This is exactly, almost word for word, what those who are sceptical of the vaccine, mask wearing, lock downs, infection numbers, severity and origin source, are saying. Those who do not want the vaccine would say that those who have had it, and support vaccination, have bought into a media and government lie and lack critical thinking ability.
There are scientific studies and experts sharing their expertise to support nearly every point of view and counter view.
Just the other day, on another forum, someone opined that they "all we get is cases cases cases, why can't we get some real science about the virus?" I think that the main stream news where this person was was particularly shallow and politically partisan, which didn't help their perspective. I think though that a lot of the sceptics feel that way.
There is a strange conflict between not wanting to take a vaccine because it has been "...approved for emergency use....rushed into existence without all the proper safety checks." and wanting solid, unshakable studies from scientist, with which everyone agrees, without the time needed to create, run, result gather, analyse, publish, peer review and have proven. When a report is published, it is disseminated at speed now, through the internet. Maybe the conclusion contradicts an earlier study, which is hardly news in the world of scientific study, but with Covid it prompts people to pick the study that most closely supports their ideology and to complain that the other study isn't "real" science.
For example, mask wearing. "Do masks work?" seems a simple question, but you can have two polarised camps with different definitions of what "work" means. Those in favour have been in favour from the start and tend to still be in favour, they tend to see masks as a way to lower risk of spreading droplets and protecting those around them, whose masks in turn protect them. Those against have tended to view masks as a ridiculously ineffective means of protecting the wearer and they cite the size of viral particles, gaps around masks, and that you can smell things through a cloth mask. The WHO and governments have flopped around with advice like a fish out of water. It doesn't help that studies and policy derived from the original strain may be less valid when looking at the Delta strain, but that doesn't mean those policies were never effective.
Study published submitted in July 2020 that found that masks cut transmission between people in community settings.
An evidence review of face masks against COVID-19
The science around the use of masks by the public to impede COVID-19 transmission is advancing rapidly. In this narrative review, we develop an analytical framework to examine mask usage, synthesizing the relevant literature to inform multiple areas: population impact, transmission...www.pnas.org
Article that cites work done in the UK about FFP3 masks cutting infection of medical staff treating Covid patients, also states that the simple paper and cloth masks are ineffective for protecting medical staff.
Covid: Masks upgrade cuts infection risk, research finds
Wearing a high grade FFP3 mask can almost entirely protect health workers from Covid, research finds.www.bbc.co.uk
An article from the Telegraph quoting Dr Colin Axom who is scathing about medic's understanding of how viral particles move and who calls cloth and simple paper masks ineffective comfort blankets.
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I am under no illusion that this virus will be done and dusted in the short term, for myself to employ the following principle in order to stay safeI have an over active immune response. It's not fun, it's kind of scary how fast my body can go from okay to my skin swelling with fluid filled weals so fast that my heart flutters and I struggle to breath.
I have had both doses of the vaccine, but I know that it won't stop me getting the disease, just that I am unlikely to get a severe case of the disease; less likely to need hospitilisation, or a coffin, iimmc ?
I'm working on the principle that avoiding people who are being careless about spreading this disease around to others, is a good thing.
Historically plague takes three years to resolve in these islands. We have evidences of that from the end of the dark ages on. Only smallpox came so quickly again, repeatedly, that it was known to take seven years. Every thing else from falling sickness to plague, three years.....and we've only had eighteen months of this one.
That however takes no account of vaccines or of the speed of modern international travel.....which really was the cause of the spread of all of this in the first place, wasn't it ?
Me, and mine, we'll just ca' canny for a bit longer yet.
see #43; clearly one of you is wrong!