One of the greatest frustrations I have had for the better part of the last year is that, despite contradicting data, “scientists” and government bureaucrats claim superiority over fact in clinging to the notion that their mitigation efforts are making a dent in the COVID-19 crisis. Biden assumed the presidency of Trump’s in January 2021. There had been 434,000 COVID deaths across the United States between January 9th 2020 (the first COVID death) and January 20th 2021. In other words, deaths under Biden will likely surpass the death count under Trump, despite having a “functional vaccine” available during the length of his time as President.
The fact that we receive information from government agencies and media outlets is complete and total garbage continues to be proven by international data. (We’ve already covered in previous pieces that on a national basis, here in the United States, vaccination rates do not correlate to lower transmission, hospitalization, or death rates.) In taking a look at this data, we wanted to compare Portugal, one of the world’s highest vaccinated countries, to other countries in Europe, the European Union as a whole, the US, South Africa (and their explosion of cases with Omicron)and then the whole world. First, let’s acknowledge the COVID vaccination rates of those countries:
Portugal’s vaccination rate is nearly 90 percent, which is a high level for Europe as a whole and other European Union countries. This is important because Portugal has achieved a much higher vaccination rate than the level experts label “herd immunity,” therefore making the case that Portugal should be an example of vaccine efficacy. The average European Union vaccination rate for COVID-19 is only 67%. Portugal has a higher level of vaccination at 87.9%. Portugal is ahead of the US by 30% and South Africa, by 64%. If you were to look at vaccination rates in relation to infection rates, Spain, Portugal, Iceland, Spain and Malta would be near the bottom.
However, when we look at the data on the new case growth rate it is clear that Portugal and Malta rank 4th and 5th respectively, while Iceland ranks 13th. While there are exceptions and outliers, the new growth rate of those in the most vaccinated areas is the lowest among all compared countries. America, 13th from 15th in the ranking of vaccination rates, had the lowest new growth rate among all compared populations. Although South Africa ranks first in new cases growth, this can be explained by panic-driven new testing, as we will see from the next set of data.
If you compare vaccination rates with the new rate of death growth, it is reasonable to expect that this will favor the more vaccinated population. Wrong. It is true that the countries with highest vaccination rates have also experienced the highest deaths growth rate in the 14-day period, compared to other nations. America was 13th for vaccination rates, but 13th for the new mortality growth rate.
More shockingly, South Africa was the least compared country for its vaccination rate. Also, it is first in our nation for new case growth rates. Two things could be responsible for this. First, it’s possible that the new death growth rate has not yet caught up with the new case growth rate; however, since these numbers go back for 14 days in both figures, I would imagine that many of these new cases would have died if Omicron were as terrible as they are attempting to paint it.
The second possibility is that Omicron isn’t as terrible as many are making it out to be, that it’s more transmissible but not more deadly. At the very least, South Africa should have at least a 277 percent growth rate in deaths in the coming days according to this data; however, considering that none of this data is correlated in any way to another set, especially in ways that we are being told it is, I don’t think it will rise to that level.
They will eventually admit that they were wrong. I’m glad they finally have to do this.
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