And Florida and Texas have the first and second highest number of new Covid cases in the past week.  Florida with 148544 and Texas with 117299. 

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/here-are-the-states-where-covid-19-is-inc...

Rat Man wrote on Aug 26^th, 2021 at 4:13pm:


That’s a great example of prioritizing freedom over safety!

Scorpion Vin wrote on Aug 25^th, 2021 at 8:04pm:



Exactly right. Also older people that aren’t doing well. On the news they said people over 65 but there was an 108 year old that survived it

So...Lightning Jack pointed out part of the issue. The relatively large populations of those states.

Theres other issues as well.

First, case rates are given in a per capita basis while deaths are not. Very odd dont you think? Theres a good reason they did it that way.

First though lets talk about positive cases vs mortality rates. Quoting new cases is irrelevant if those new cases dont translate to higher per capita death rates or serious cases of covid. Its entirely possible that one state can have more cases and less deaths per capita.

Most new cases of covid and I mean the overwhelming majority are nothing. Just numbers on a piece of paper and anything from no symptoms to a normal, albeit miserable, flu. Looking at per capita case rates without the corresponding per capita deaths is not a good indicator on how its affecting our healthcare system because you cant know if you are seeing, for example, a super spreader event involving mostly younger people who statistically speaking are almost all going to be just fine or a nursing home which would be the opposite.

Likewise admittance to the icu is not necessarily as specfic as we would like either. The majority of people admitted dont end up on a vent for 3 weeks. Most have some observation and get prescribed some meds and sent home. Theres a huge gulf in between those two extremes. Death rates are a little more concrete. (Sometimes but thats a bigger issue i wont go into).

So going back to what I said in the beginning, why did they not publish the per capita death rates when they published the per capita case rates? Let me show you-

These are the per capita deaths per 100,000 people of the three states in question for the period of Aug. 19th- Aug. 25th of 2021.





Now, Ratman, heres your home state,  New Jersey 's-



New Jersey had the most deaths in the time period stated of all the states, while being the top 7th vaccinated state while Florida and Texas are 22 and 35 respectively.  New Jersey also has stricter mandates and a lower population of people 62 years and older than Florida, the age range most susceptible to death by covid, while Texas has a lower number of those aged 62 and older. So... at least in the last week you were about 50% more likely to die in New Jersey from covid than the other two states. It would seem then that at least for now the number one thing you could do to protect yourself would be to come to Florida or Texas. 

This is not to say that the vaccine makes you more susceptible to death. Im not suggesting that. Or that you shouldnt get it. Thats a choice (for now) that people should make for themselves, although they are working on taking away that freedom.

Nor am I saying that death rates wont vary and change with each week. This is normal with any virus.

What i am trying to point out is that the news articles people read are designed specifically to sway you to a chosen narrative and they do that by leaving out information that would certainly make any reasonable person say "Hold on this doesnt make sense".

Lastly let me just say hopefully I didnt mistype anything or include any errors as I am pretty tired writing this. But yea...food for thought.

Rat Man wrote on Aug 26^th, 2021 at 3:37pm:

Kary Mullis (the person who invented PCR testing) explicitly stated that PCR cannot be used to diagnose disease, it was a technology intended for forensic use. He also stated that it could be put to nefarious use, as once the cycles are turned up (as have been, far above normal) you can find anything and everything in someone, effectively giving the 'tester' control over the diagnosis.
As it happens, he very conveniently died in 2019, as to not be able to challenge the abuse of his invention in 2020, and onwards.

Sarosh wrote on Oct 3^rd, 2021 at 9:44am:


And I have no problem with that sentiment for just about everything but infectious diseases.  I don't think it's necessary for me to list the horrible diseases that would still be with us if not for vaccinations.  The unvacciated are living petri dishes for new variants to develop.  No one has the right to spread disease.

Rat Man wrote on Oct 4^th, 2021 at 8:43am:


never said vaccines don't work.