Another hypothesis is that they tend to be less engaged in the economy and their communities and so are thus less susceptible; smaller social networks and lower spatial density. And further they attach themselves to these crazy ideas because no one ever has the opportunity to push back except people that go way out of their way like Glen.
-----Original Message----- From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> On Behalf Of David Eric Smith Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2021 1:09 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] vax v unvax This is one that it would be nice to see broken down by age and other conditions. If unvaxxed hospitalizations are a true “cross section of America” (like jury duty), whereas the vaxxed ones are mainly old or sick with something else, that would be an important variable for deriving a risk profile by category. Time, time, time, to chase things down…. Eric > On Aug 19, 2021, at 4:53 AM, uǝlƃ ☤>$ <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Soooo ... our house cleaner is anti-vax. My friends tell me we should fire > her. I've resisted confronting her over it. But hospitals being overrun > influenced me to press her a little bit. I claimed that the majority of > hospitalizations are the unvaxxed. She claimed that down near her (I think > closer to Centralia, WA), it was flipped, that the majority of > hospitalizations were vaccinated. We had the usual conversation where she > ended with "you believe your data and I believe my data" blather. So I > decided to see if I could find news articles claiming the majority of > hospitalized covid cases are the vaccinated. And I found this: > > Higher Death, Hospitalization Rates Among Vaccinated Individuals: UK > COVID-19 Data > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.visiontimes.co > m%2f2021%2f07%2f04%2fdeaths-hospital-vaccinated-uk.html&c=E,1,S5wT7eG_ > LxnTLuUE1RbuVEziaTP99eeGAnZxv_dtTYhpTiIkicxQt2mvokLXVbixkXhDcXvoLjNg1n > GUqSLe66RnTqmVs_5EGMgv3Z6cPUYQEg,,&typo=1 > > Most COVID-19 Patients at Israel Hospital Fully Vaccinated, Doctor Calls > Mandates ‘Diabolic’ > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.visiontimes.co > m%2f2021%2f08%2f08%2fisrael-hospital-vaccinated.html&c=E,1,FDPrPMNiU5e > 621cpzQhoViPiTlcpkww8iHTLVFR9vwhMrJ_5m1j77NIXnZYqEweYmhJcGmbR5PUWpuOvQ > F1ZPV23_7Fw9AKvzzPGnjmS-w,,&typo=1 > > They're both from the "Vision Times", which looks to me like a Falun Gong > outlet, popular with Trumpists, anti-CCP, etc. So, I don't really want to do > any debunking or verification. I *want* to write it off as garbage. But their > source: > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2fgovernment%2fuploads%2fsystem%2fuploads%2fattachment_data%2ffile%2f1001359%2fVariants_of_Concern_VOC_Technical_Briefing_16.pdf&c=E,1,Z0AX7_CvU6zmg1ca9s0IY3_E3dshyhV2o2XdB9IZiLRuF4FqVWdK_4ijYuyJIk-wyRPEoaaRJUlchbHLmor1XP3Y-0_ioCec73m-PpoXtafAhLUS702P8MUqhA,,&typo=1 > seems legit. And the numbers in the article seem to match Table 4. > > Plugging in the numbers from the latest briefing: > https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/investigation-of-novel-sars > -cov-2-variant-variant-of-concern-20201201 > > It really does seem to show that the death rate among vaxxed is higher than > that among unvaxxed. > > The LifeSiteNews site is obviously troll nonsense. But my concern is mostly > about that tech report from the UK and Herzog Hospital. Are these counter > examples to the NYT unvax/vax data? Are they small enough to be within error? > > -- > ☤>$ uǝlƃ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn > GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2fredfish.com%2fmailm > an%2flistinfo%2ffriam_redfish.com&c=E,1,5m3q9gwLjB5XgPfPMCUS8tSOyRmgs8 > oigic3gckRviSyeVj6o_a-VaEwwwPhcJt7wS65-CWA2pK-6wFh36mmNd1jOvXxdQYJTlzg > ky_HdveQg2ry8kGqzQ,,&typo=1 FRIAM-COMIC > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffriam-comic.blogspo > t.com%2f&c=E,1,g2WREPPELfNBefvRDG6LLsnR1UKZKBLNBalnm3PnxQvK_DKQefTBvLl > Zy9Ci6bQW70bCMXoDcDNcdxjOxvGNQiXt9fPCIhZ6E-r5HJQdjHEGI71jMQ,,&typo=1 > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/