British are dropping vaccine passports: Alex Berenson
(alexberenson.substack.com)
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Berenson provides nothing to support his statement that "they’re not doing this because they think vaccines work - but because they know vaccines don’t"
Probably because he can't, I'm guessing.
It's not that simple. The numbers below show that covid deaths do not vary directly with vaccinations (Israel) nor with relaxed protocols (Sweden, Japan).
As of Sept 10
The first number: the 7 day moving average in deaths per million of population. The second number is the percentage of population that is fully vaccinated
Sweden: Deaths/M 0.97, Percent fully vaccinated 60
Japan: Deaths/M 2.93. Percent fully vaccinated 50
Canada: Deaths/M 3.43. Percent fully vaccinated 68
Israel : Deaths/M 20.32, Percent fully vaccinated 63
USA: Deaths/M 21.12, Percent fully vaccinated 53
Sources:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-people-fully-vaccinated-covid
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
They have certainly been proven so far to be far safer than getting the virus. If it was just a personal decision I wouldn't care, but unvaccinated people are better at passing the virus on: "Fully vaccinated people with Delta variant breakthrough infections can spread the virus to others. However, vaccinated people appear to spread the virus for a shorter time" (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/variants/delta-variant.html)
Nobody ever said they would. None of the vaccines were ever said to provide 100% protection. But they have been proven to slow the transmission of the virus and lower the impact on the healthcare system. This allows more people with 'regular' problems to get help.
Informed consent would be a stronger argument if you weren't better at infecting the vulnerable.