Another problem comparing to a small group (only 14% unvaxxed) is small group bias (term made up by me). For example, in a group of only 2, if 1 gets sick, that's a 50% rate but you can't extrapolate that to a larger group.
Another problem comparing to a small group (only 14% unvaxxed) is small group bias (term made up by me). For example, in a group of only 2, if 1 gets sick, that's a 50% rate but you can't extrapolate that to a larger group.
There is a very real problem with comparing unvaxxed to vaxxed populations with no controls. These groups can look very different. For instance, the unvaxxed population likely has a few people who are very committed to natural, healthy lifestyles but also some who are already very sick with other ailments that make it inadvisable to get the vaccine.
Quite the opposite can happen too. Alex cites in his book this possibility. Especially in the very highly vaxxed nations, it was usually the most at-risk (the elderly) who received the vaxx. Since the virus does its worst on the most frail and usually the very old, that of necessity means that many of the "unvaccinated" the press so disdainfully reports as being in hospital or dead were precisely the people who COULDN'T BE VAXXED because they were too frail already! The media lie about damned near everything. In the case of bemoaning all the ill or dying unvaxxed, then, they are basically blaming the victim, people who simply could not be vaxxed.
Another problem comparing to a small group (only 14% unvaxxed) is small group bias (term made up by me). For example, in a group of only 2, if 1 gets sick, that's a 50% rate but you can't extrapolate that to a larger group.
There is a very real problem with comparing unvaxxed to vaxxed populations with no controls. These groups can look very different. For instance, the unvaxxed population likely has a few people who are very committed to natural, healthy lifestyles but also some who are already very sick with other ailments that make it inadvisable to get the vaccine.
Quite the opposite can happen too. Alex cites in his book this possibility. Especially in the very highly vaxxed nations, it was usually the most at-risk (the elderly) who received the vaxx. Since the virus does its worst on the most frail and usually the very old, that of necessity means that many of the "unvaccinated" the press so disdainfully reports as being in hospital or dead were precisely the people who COULDN'T BE VAXXED because they were too frail already! The media lie about damned near everything. In the case of bemoaning all the ill or dying unvaxxed, then, they are basically blaming the victim, people who simply could not be vaxxed.
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