CV19 - Cure Worse Than The Disease? (Vol 19)

CV19 - Cure Worse Than The Disease? (Vol 19)

Author
Discussion

isaldiri

18,691 posts

169 months

Friday 3rd May
quotequote all
SWoll said:
Exactly this. There was a spike in 2020 for about 2 months (April-May) where the most frail in society were hit hard and bad decisions were made around treatment, but other than that very little difference to any normal year. 614k people died in the UK in 2020, which is lower than the total for 2018 (616k)

As the vaccine didn't get launched until the start of December 2020 when everything was running at the normal rate and then nothing really changed from that point onwards either, where is the evidence for the vaccine having any affect whatsoever?
The last few months of 2020 were absolutely not normal in terms of mortality for that time.

And I guarantee you that 614k is considerably lower than the actual total UK deaths in 2020 as per above in your post.

cliffe_mafia

1,644 posts

239 months

Friday 3rd May
quotequote all
Hants PHer said:
SWoll said:
<edited for brevity>
As the vaccine didn't get launched until the start of December 2020 when everything was running at the normal rate and then nothing really changed from that point onwards either, where is the evidence for the vaccine having any affect whatsoever?

It's a faith based argument that doesn't stand up to any level of statistical analysis as far as I can tell?
This ONS study seems pretty convincing to me:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunit...
"unvaccinated (those with no vaccination or who were vaccinated with a first dose less than 21 days ago)"

How many people got jabbed and then got covid anyway a few days later because the jab lowered their immunity?

Plus it's modelled data - it's most likely out by several Fergusons!

Also iirc the count of total unvaccinated was estimated at 10m when it was closer to 20m thus skewing the figures towards effectiveness.

Hants PHer

5,768 posts

112 months

Friday 3rd May
quotequote all
cliffe_mafia said:
"unvaccinated (those with no vaccination or who were vaccinated with a first dose less than 21 days ago)"
Seems reasonable to me, since it takes a few days for the vaccine to become effective
How many people got jabbed and then got covid anyway a few days later because the jab lowered their immunity?
See above. The vaccines could not possibly have an instant effect. And anyway the effectiveness is clear in the 2+ doses groups
Plus it's modelled data - it's most likely out by several Fergusons!
It's not 'modelled', it is based on actual vaccination status of actual people from the actual 2021 Census. They used the Cox Proportional Hazard Model as a regression tool but that's not 'modelling' in the Ferguson sense
Also iirc the count of total unvaccinated was estimated at 10m when it was closer to 20m thus skewing the figures towards effectiveness.
How so? They simply looked at outcomes between the vaccinated and unvaccinated cohorts. The number of unvaccinated was determined by comparing Census data to vaccination records therefore no 'estimate' was needed

cliffe_mafia

1,644 posts

239 months

Friday 3rd May
quotequote all
Hants PHer said:
cliffe_mafia said:
"unvaccinated (those with no vaccination or who were vaccinated with a first dose less than 21 days ago)"
Seems reasonable to me, since it takes a few days for the vaccine to become effective
How many people got jabbed and then got covid anyway a few days later because the jab lowered their immunity?
See above. The vaccines could not possibly have an instant effect. And anyway the effectiveness is clear in the 2+ doses groups
Plus it's modelled data - it's most likely out by several Fergusons!
It's not 'modelled', it is based on actual vaccination status of actual people from the actual 2021 Census. They used the Cox Proportional Hazard Model as a regression tool but that's not 'modelling' in the Ferguson sense
Also iirc the count of total unvaccinated was estimated at 10m when it was closer to 20m thus skewing the figures towards effectiveness.
How so? They simply looked at outcomes between the vaccinated and unvaccinated cohorts. The number of unvaccinated was determined by comparing Census data to vaccination records therefore no 'estimate' was needed
On the first two points - if someone takes the jab and therefore becomes more likely to contract covid it is reasonable to class them as unvaccinated? in what world can that be ok?

The original data is not modelled obviously but the count of unvaccinated has massive margins for error -

ONS use vaccination data from their public surveys and then multiply up to population size it's not from medical data.

https://fullfact.org/health/expose-england-populat...

The Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) latest estimate for 2020, puts the population at 55.6 million. This would leave about 12.3 million people who have not received a first dose, either because they are not eligible, or have otherwise not received a vaccine.

But the UKHSA uses data extracted from the National Immunisation Management Service (NIMS) which counts 62,724,319 people in England registered with the NHS. This would mean 19.5 million people haven’t received a first dose.

So the original base figures can't be trusted (23% versus 32% unvaccinated) and that's before the modelling is applied.




Rollin

6,118 posts

246 months

Friday 3rd May
quotequote all
cliffe_mafia said:
Hants PHer said:
cliffe_mafia said:
"unvaccinated (those with no vaccination or who were vaccinated with a first dose less than 21 days ago)"
Seems reasonable to me, since it takes a few days for the vaccine to become effective
How many people got jabbed and then got covid anyway a few days later because the jab lowered their immunity?
See above. The vaccines could not possibly have an instant effect. And anyway the effectiveness is clear in the 2+ doses groups
Plus it's modelled data - it's most likely out by several Fergusons!
It's not 'modelled', it is based on actual vaccination status of actual people from the actual 2021 Census. They used the Cox Proportional Hazard Model as a regression tool but that's not 'modelling' in the Ferguson sense
Also iirc the count of total unvaccinated was estimated at 10m when it was closer to 20m thus skewing the figures towards effectiveness.
How so? They simply looked at outcomes between the vaccinated and unvaccinated cohorts. The number of unvaccinated was determined by comparing Census data to vaccination records therefore no 'estimate' was needed
On the first two points - if someone takes the jab and therefore becomes more likely to contract covid it is reasonable to class them as unvaccinated? in what world can that be ok?

The original data is not modelled obviously but the count of unvaccinated has massive margins for error -

ONS use vaccination data from their public surveys and then multiply up to population size it's not from medical data.

https://fullfact.org/health/expose-england-populat...

The Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) latest estimate for 2020, puts the population at 55.6 million. This would leave about 12.3 million people who have not received a first dose, either because they are not eligible, or have otherwise not received a vaccine.

But the UKHSA uses data extracted from the National Immunisation Management Service (NIMS) which counts 62,724,319 people in England registered with the NHS. This would mean 19.5 million people haven’t received a first dose.

So the original base figures can't be trusted (23% versus 32% unvaccinated) and that's before the modelling is applied.
Says who?

Elysium

13,899 posts

188 months

Friday 3rd May
quotequote all
SWoll said:
B'stard Child said:
How many people die every day in the UK - around 1600

How old are most of the people that die every day in the UK - around 98%

Not wanting a fight over this but when the media focused on the number of daily deaths thro the pandemic a big problem I had with it was they never put it in context - the human race is not imortal - babies are born children grow up people age and people die.
Exactly this. There was a spike in 2020 for about 2 months (April-May) where the most frail in society were hit hard and bad decisions were made around treatment, but other than that very little difference to any normal year. 614k people died in the UK in 2020, which is lower than the total for 2018 (616k)

As the vaccine didn't get launched until the start of December 2020 when everything was running at the normal rate and then nothing really changed from that point onwards either, where is the evidence for the vaccine having any affect whatsoever?

It's a faith based argument that doesn't stand up to any level of statistical analysis as far as I can tell?

I think your numbers are wrong. You state UK, but the graph is England and Wales and that is what the ONS records:

Total deaths in England and Wales in 2018 was 541,589

Total deaths in England and Wales in 2020 was 607,922

I spent a fair bit of time looking at the ONS numbers during the pandemic, creating my own version of their graphs to see what was happening.

This one looks at actual deaths from Jan 2020 to Dec 2022 compared to the 5 year average from 2015-2019. COVID deaths are shown in orange and non COVID deaths are shown in blue. You can see a number of things:

1. Deaths in the winter of 2019/20 were lower than average.
2. The first wave of the pandemic was massively unusual. Well above the 'upper bound' of 3 standard deviations from the mean.
3. The second wave was also significant, but less unusual given that it happened in winter
4. Deaths in the first half of 2022 were below average in the second half they were above average.

In summary, there can be no doubt that what happened in 2020 was significant.



When I shared this a couple of years ago I was asked what would happen if I looked back further, so I made this version for 20 years. What you see then is that Spring 2020 is still well beyond anything we had seen before and that winter 2020/21 was well above average, but not the worst winter for that timescale. However, the context for this is that, prior to 2020, mortality had steadily reduced over the preceding 20 years as healthcare improved.



You are obviously hoping to see evidence that vaccines reduces deaths in the data. You can see that the spikes associated with the first two waves never repeated. One thing you can also see is that most of the deaths happened before vaccination:



Of course millions of us went on to catch COVID after those vaccinations, but less of the oldies that caught it died. A lot of those infections happened in the exit wave at the end of 2021 and it's easy to see that the mortality that winter was very different to the one before.

Elysium

13,899 posts

188 months

Friday 3rd May
quotequote all
isaldiri said:
SWoll said:
Exactly this. There was a spike in 2020 for about 2 months (April-May) where the most frail in society were hit hard and bad decisions were made around treatment, but other than that very little difference to any normal year. 614k people died in the UK in 2020, which is lower than the total for 2018 (616k)

As the vaccine didn't get launched until the start of December 2020 when everything was running at the normal rate and then nothing really changed from that point onwards either, where is the evidence for the vaccine having any affect whatsoever?
The last few months of 2020 were absolutely not normal in terms of mortality for that time.

And I guarantee you that 614k is considerably lower than the actual total UK deaths in 2020 as per above in your post.
There were 689,629 deaths in the UK in 2020:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunit...

I suspect SWoll has been mixing up the 'England and Wales' numbers with the 'UK' ones.


Elysium

13,899 posts

188 months

Friday 3rd May
quotequote all
Apologies for spamming the thread, but this has to be shared:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/02/im-not...


Roderick Spode

3,144 posts

50 months

Friday 3rd May
quotequote all
Elysium said:
Apologies for spamming the thread, but this has to be shared:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/02/im-not...

'Conspiracy theorist' was merely a lazy ad-hom thrown around by the cretinous and hard of thinking morons (see unironic title of the other thread) for anyone who dared to dissent or otherwise question "The Science" or the actions undertaken by governments, unquestioningly cheer-led on by the media and a bovine & imbecilic public. Heaven forfend that the cretinous might be shown as incorrect in any way, then the cognitive dissonance takes over and it's all "Fake Nooos". Don't forget, all Conspiracy Theorists are a bit thick. Except when they keep turning out to be correct, merely delayed six months.

r3g

3,295 posts

25 months

Friday 3rd May
quotequote all
Roderick Spode said:
'Conspiracy theorist' was merely a lazy ad-hom thrown around by the cretinous and hard of thinking morons (see unironic title of the other thread) for anyone who dared to dissent or otherwise question "The Science" or the actions undertaken by governments, unquestioningly cheer-led on by the media and a bovine & imbecilic public. Heaven forfend that the cretinous might be shown as incorrect in any way, then the cognitive dissonance takes over and it's all "Fake Nooos". Don't forget, all Conspiracy Theorists are a bit thick. Except when they keep turning out to be correct, merely delayed six months.
That thread is an endless source of chuckles and irony. This one earlier today for example :

Castrol for a knave said:
Some people, however bright, just seem to fail to connect the dots
wobble

jameswills

3,551 posts

44 months

Friday 3rd May
quotequote all
SWoll said:
B'stard Child said:
How many people die every day in the UK - around 1600

How old are most of the people that die every day in the UK - around 98%

Not wanting a fight over this but when the media focused on the number of daily deaths thro the pandemic a big problem I had with it was they never put it in context - the human race is not imortal - babies are born children grow up people age and people die.
Exactly this. There was a spike in 2020 for about 2 months (April-May) where the most frail in society were hit hard and bad decisions were made around treatment, but other than that very little difference to any normal year. 614k people died in the UK in 2020, which is lower than the total for 2018 (616k)

As the vaccine didn't get launched until the start of December 2020 when everything was running at the normal rate and then nothing really changed from that point onwards either, where is the evidence for the vaccine having any affect whatsoever?

It's a faith based argument that doesn't stand up to any level of statistical analysis as far as I can tell?

There is zero evidence it did anything. It’s baffling how anyone can peddle the notion otherwise.

jameswills

3,551 posts

44 months

Friday 3rd May
quotequote all
Elysium said:
I think your numbers are wrong. You state UK, but the graph is England and Wales and that is what the ONS records:

Total deaths in England and Wales in 2018 was 541,589

Total deaths in England and Wales in 2020 was 607,922

I spent a fair bit of time looking at the ONS numbers during the pandemic, creating my own version of their graphs to see what was happening.

This one looks at actual deaths from Jan 2020 to Dec 2022 compared to the 5 year average from 2015-2019. COVID deaths are shown in orange and non COVID deaths are shown in blue. You can see a number of things:

1. Deaths in the winter of 2019/20 were lower than average.
2. The first wave of the pandemic was massively unusual. Well above the 'upper bound' of 3 standard deviations from the mean.
3. The second wave was also significant, but less unusual given that it happened in winter
4. Deaths in the first half of 2022 were below average in the second half they were above average.

In summary, there can be no doubt that what happened in 2020 was significant.



When I shared this a couple of years ago I was asked what would happen if I looked back further, so I made this version for 20 years. What you see then is that Spring 2020 is still well beyond anything we had seen before and that winter 2020/21 was well above average, but not the worst winter for that timescale. However, the context for this is that, prior to 2020, mortality had steadily reduced over the preceding 20 years as healthcare improved.



You are obviously hoping to see evidence that vaccines reduces deaths in the data. You can see that the spikes associated with the first two waves never repeated. One thing you can also see is that most of the deaths happened before vaccination:



Of course millions of us went on to catch COVID after those vaccinations, but less of the oldies that caught it died. A lot of those infections happened in the exit wave at the end of 2021 and it's easy to see that the mortality that winter was very different to the one before.
Go look up Norman Fenton and his study on this, the statistics surrounding unvaccinated vs vaccinated is totally absurd.

Elysium

13,899 posts

188 months

Friday 3rd May
quotequote all
jameswills said:
Go look up Norman Fenton and his study on this, the statistics surrounding unvaccinated vs vaccinated is totally absurd.
I followed Fenton on Twitter throughout the pandemic and I think that last graph was actually produced to check one of his arguments.

The majority of deaths happened before anyone was vaccinated. So if you simply compare total vaccinated and unvaccinated deaths you get a very distorted picture.

It’s why the 96% lower ASMR mentioned here is factually correct but meaningless:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunit...






Edited by Elysium on Friday 3rd May 20:49

jameswills

3,551 posts

44 months

Friday 3rd May
quotequote all
Elysium said:
I followed Fenton on Twitter throughout the pandemic and I think that last graph was actually produced to check one of his arguments.

The majority of deaths happened before anyone was vaccinated. So if you simply compare total vaccinated and unvaccinated deaths you get a very distorted picture.

It’s why the 96% lower ASMR mentioned here is factually correct but meaningless:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunit...






Edited by Elysium on Friday 3rd May 20:49
Right, so why are you pushing any narrative that supports the “vaccine”? There is no data at all that supports it

Elysium

13,899 posts

188 months

Friday 3rd May
quotequote all
jameswills said:
Elysium said:
I followed Fenton on Twitter throughout the pandemic and I think that last graph was actually produced to check one of his arguments.

The majority of deaths happened before anyone was vaccinated. So if you simply compare total vaccinated and unvaccinated deaths you get a very distorted picture.

It’s why the 96% lower ASMR mentioned here is factually correct but meaningless:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunit...
Right, so why are you pushing any narrative that supports the “vaccine”? There is no data at all that supports it
What ‘narrative’ do you think I am supporting?

Because I think I disagree with almost all of it.





Hants PHer

5,768 posts

112 months

Friday 3rd May
quotequote all
jameswills said:
There is zero evidence it did anything. It’s baffling how anyone can peddle the notion otherwise.
There is plenty of evidence that Covid vaccines greatly reduced mortality for its recipients, especially in the elderly where the risk was at its highest to begin with. It is baffling how anyone can peddle the notion otherwise.

Or, to put it more bluntly, James: you are wrong.

r3g

3,295 posts

25 months

Friday 3rd May
quotequote all
jameswills said:
There is zero evidence it did anything. It’s baffling how anyone can peddle the notion otherwise.
Yep. They are determined to make a load of made-up numbers and graphs produced by corrupt government fraudsters fit their narrative, mostly because it makes them feel better about rolling up their sleeves. Absolutely nobody who didn't get any of the jabs regrets their decision.

Pupp

12,249 posts

273 months

Saturday 4th May
quotequote all
r3g said:
jameswills said:
There is zero evidence it did anything. It’s baffling how anyone can peddle the notion otherwise.
Yep. They are determined to make a load of made-up numbers and graphs produced by corrupt government fraudsters fit their narrative, mostly because it makes them feel better about rolling up their sleeves. Absolutely nobody who didn't get any of the jabs regrets their decision.
Not the surviving ones, anyway hippy

119

6,503 posts

37 months

Saturday 4th May
quotequote all
r3g said:
jameswills said:
There is zero evidence it did anything. It’s baffling how anyone can peddle the notion otherwise.
Yep. They are determined to make a load of made-up numbers and graphs produced by corrupt government fraudsters fit their narrative, mostly because it makes them feel better about rolling up their sleeves. Absolutely nobody who didn't get any of the jabs regrets their decision.
rofl

jameswills

3,551 posts

44 months

Saturday 4th May
quotequote all
Elysium said:
I followed Fenton on Twitter throughout the pandemic and I think that last graph was actually produced to check one of his arguments.

The majority of deaths happened before anyone was vaccinated. So if you simply compare total vaccinated and unvaccinated deaths you get a very distorted picture.

It’s why the 96% lower ASMR mentioned here is factually correct but meaningless:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunit...






Edited by Elysium on Friday 3rd May 20:49
Sorry I was travelling so difficult to have a proper meaningful discussion on this yesterday.

Indeed, from that data out of the 5788 people that died, nearly 40% more died after taking the vaccine (2440 unvaccinated people vs 3348 with one dose or more), which means the “vaccine” did nothing to improve overall mortality, which is surely the only thing people should be bothered about. So what if it stops them dying “with Covid” if it kills them by some other means. Of course that is also a bit of a misleading argument because you’d hazard a guess that most unvaccinated people would be much fitter and healthier and much more unlikely to die,

As I keep saying, the stats are all meaningless really. Since the vaccine has overall health and mortality improved in the nation? That is a resounding no, especially in the younger age groups, so for me it’s providing zero benefit to our health and I’d be totally ignoring it now as a treatment and find something else.