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Et's Cinema PsychoMasonica's avatar

I would suggest not being dismayed by the "persistent lies". I would actually be dismayed if they were to somehow stop or even slow down adding to the already mountainous pile of lies they have told. They will never stop lying, ever. They wouldn't know how not to. These are the most pathologically evil minds that have ever existed and they will never back down. They know they are dead if they do.

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The contrast between flights of establishment propaganda and stonewalled reality:

UK ONS: Direct and indirect impact of the vaccination programme on COVID-19 infections and mortality .... modelling of "effectiveness."

"Since the first wave, the model has been constantly improved to capture the pandemic activity as it develops, in particular to account for the impacts, both direct and indirect, of the vaccination programme. The direct impact of vaccination is the number of deaths saved in those that get infected, whereas the indirect effect incorporates the additional prevention of infections. The history of real-time modelling outputs can be found at Nowcasting and Forecasting of the COVID-19 Pandemic (3), with the most recent results on which the figures here are based is currently available at COVID-19: nowcast and forecast (4)."

"Vaccination rates in the model are based on the actual number of doses administered, and the vaccine is assumed to reduce susceptibility to COVID-19 as well as mortality once infected. Estimates for vaccine efficacy are based on the best available published results (5). To infer the impact of vaccination, the model was fitted to both ONS prevalence and daily COVID-19 mortality data in England, resulting in posterior samples for a range of epidemiological parameters. The posterior samples were then used to simulate the number of infections and deaths that would have occurred without vaccination (Figure 1). Finally, the total impact was calculated by comparing the infection and mortality estimates with vaccination versus the simulated outcomes without vaccination (Figure 2; Table 1)."

From: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8057721/

COVID-19 vaccine efficacy and effectiveness—the elephant (not) in the room

Piero Olliaro, Els Torreele, and Michel Vaillant. Lancet Microbe. 2021 Jul; 2(7): e279–e280.

The only reported indication of vaccine effectiveness is the Israeli mass vaccination campaign using the Pfizer–BioNTech product. Although the design and methodology are radically different from the randomised trial, Dagan and colleagues report an RRR of 94%, which is essentially the same as the RRR of the phase 3 trial (95%) but with an ARR of 0·46%, which translates into an NNV of 217 (when the ARR was 0·84% and the NNV was 119 in the phase 3 trial).

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