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Sigh, I guess since I don't expect political/opinion stuff on the front page. If you disagree, that's fine. I'll just have to reconsider things.

A link to another site is political opinion stuff?

It's about the content on the site the link points to.

It's all COVID and Climate Change articles. Science stuff yes, but two areas of science that have been heavily influenced by politics.

As strongly as you feel about political discussions on this forum I'm surprised you would have a link on one of your sites to a site like that.

Isn't Laz allowed to have his own opinions?

Yes. That I was surprised by it is not in any way an expression of disapproval.

Why would that surprise you?

Because my impression was that he is fairly apolitical.

I see what you mean. It's a link I followed a couple of years ago, registered as "of no interest" and pretty much forgot. Anyone who wants that can head over to BtFH and participate in the "Off Topic" Forum.

Has Jam Jimi died of Covid?

Nope. Just gave up.

I caught covid before the first vaccines rolled out. Felt some discomfort for a week and was done. I didn't know that my kids had covid until by accident they were tested in school. They had no symptoms whatsoever.

It became evident that the truth have no room in this world anymore. People didn't seem to care. I became the bad guy when I started suggesting that the narrative was fishy.

After almost 3 years of covid (and the truths that came out) a huge proportion of people still believe the hoax. Where I live, the busy-bodies are trying to get us back to masking, social distancing and soon enough new lockdowns. As if countries like Sweden don't really exist. The vaccine doesn't stop covid and doesn't seem to do anything useful, yet it's being pushed on the masses as if it's good. As far as I know, the US still requires vaccines for anybody wanting to enter the US —and is alone in doing so—, except for walkers across the southern border.

Despite the vaccines' risk for the young, and the proven extremely low risk of actual covid on them, western governments keep encouraging parents to jab their kids. My kids' school requires heart tests for jabbed kids before allowing them to participate in sport, and somehow that's not proof of anything bad about the vaccines that don't stop the spread of covid in any way, shape, or form.

Critical thinking has gone out the window. Actually most people showing critical thinking have been vigorously prosecuted online.

Running a website like jamjimi has proved pointless.

but they sure give you a milder version and rarely hospitalization or death.

Maybe, maybe not. You can't prove your statement. Due to how mild the effect of covid on most people is, you can never be sure whether it's the vaccine or the person's own immunity. The whole point that "anti-vaxxers" try to make is that there are no long term studies and no large numbers studies to support the vaccines' effectiveness. Now they're gathering that data.

I know several elderly people who got the vaccine and the boosters and died from covid. My mother got covid before she was vaccinated, her own sister was vaccinated as soon as she could. Both got Covid this past summer at the same time, my mother recovered before her sister. My mother's neighbour got covid before the vaccines were available, he was 92 years old. He's still alive. Covid felt like a cold to him.

All anecdotes, and one can't say one way or another whether the vaccine helped or hindered. There is just no way to know for any particular person.

But what remains true is the fact that the vaccine doesn't stop the spread, it doesn't even slow it down, so its social benefit is zero since it doesn't stop the infected from passing covid on.

So vaccine passports and the vaccine mandates don't make any sense.

If you believe that the vaccine protects you from severe illness, then you're absolutely free to get jabbed even 10 times if you wish you're free, but why should I or my kids be forced to get injected with something that doesn't benefit anybody else except the pocket of the vaccine manufacturers.

I've had covid and I know the risk, why can't I make my decision for myself? I'm willing to take the risk, and it's none of anybody else's business what I do with my body or life.

The region I live in has a population of around 6.3 million.
The death rates before the first vaccine came out were:
- almost 25% in the over 80's
- around 5% in the 60-79 range, mostly at the upper end.
- around 1% in the 35-59 range.
Since then it's dropped to 7.5%, 1% and 0.05% respectively, and that includes the carnage at the start.
Your blood group is also supposed to play a role, mine is a low-risk one and my family members have not had serious problems.

The death rates before the first vaccine came out were:
- almost 25% in the over 80's
- around 5% in the 60-79 range, mostly at the upper end.
- around 1% in the 35-59 range.

Those are huge death rates compared to all the data I've seen before. The highest I've seen for over 80 are between 11% and 12%.

The scariest thing about Covid is that it was 'Novel' as in not familiar to humanity. So nothing is certain with regards to its initial effect. But, like all diseases, once it starts spreading, humanity starts to build immunity.

One thing most people don't understand is viral load. How big is the initial exposure of an individual? If you're in the vulnerable group and you get a big dose of the virus (somebody sneezes or coughs directly in your face as you inhale), your chance of severe disease or even death is big as you get too many viruses that start invading your body and your immune system may get overwhelmed. However, if you catch a small quantity while passing where some are hanging in the air, then you may or may not even exhibit any symptoms as your immune system may be able to get over the infection quickly, and you build immunity without realizing it. More people on average get exposed to a lower viral load than a big viral load. So immunity spreads undetected.

So the longer humanity is exposed to the virus, the lower the death rates, with or without a vaccine. Not saying the vaccine didn't help, but the lower rates are not all the effect of the availability and widespread use of the vaccine.

Do you have a link to this data and may I ask where in the world are you located?

I'm in Germany - this is one "State" here and the figures are broadly typical. Some states had better figures but two (Saxony and Thuringen) were significantly worse and I can only guess why.
There are several sites which show a selection of the current figures along some cumulative totals. One problem is that they are updated daily and I know of no snapshots, another is that https://www.corona-in-zahlen.de/bundeslaender/hessen/ is in German.
That link does have graphs showing infections and deaths - you can pretty much see the totals on various dates there - but those graphs are not broken down by age-group.
There are links to the same data for the other states at the bottom and you can see that the lethality was much higher for those two states I named.

I personally, have taken the shots and wear masks. I guess that makes me a lunatic.

No, that makes you free to do whatever you think is best for you. If that is something you did of your own volition, then nobody has the right to question you.

I want the same freedom to not do these things; especially now that it's proven that those things never helped the group and only affect the person doing them.

They did "help the group" to a certain extent, they prevented the hospitals from being overwhelmed. It's been a while since I looked at the figures for the ICU units but some of them had over 90% occupancy by Covid cases at some points (again, in the state where I live).

They did "help the group" to a certain extent, they prevented the hospitals from being overwhelmed.

Maybe that's what happened wherever you are. It definitely was the narrative everywhere.

However, my own experience pushed me into the conspiracy theory territory.

Back in the summer of 2020, when full lockdowns were in effect and when we were told that the hospitals were being overrun with covid cases and you read everywhere that there was a shortage of ventilators everywhere and people were dying everywhere, I got into a car accident. My wife got injured and we were taken to the hospital.

The same hospital we were told was overrun and crowded and had no beds available for everyday sick people. The hospital where my father couldn't go for his cancer treatment.

I walked around that hospital. It was practically empty. Maybe they were empty in anticipation of a rush of covid patients, but for the week that my wife was in that hospital, the whole wing we were in was fairly empty. Over 90% of beds were empty. Granted, I didn't go to the ICU, but it would be so weird if the ICU was at full capacity and the rest of the hospital was empty. Meanwhile, the news channels in town were constantly saying to stay away from the hospital as it was full, in contradiction of what I could see with my eyes.

If I hadn't been in the accident, I wouldn't have been allowed into the hospital, but once inside it sounded like a sick joke. My father died of cancer in the fall of 2020. He may have survived had he been allowed into the hospital in the summer prior. I don't know.

Remember all those videos online of nurses and doctors dancing? Does that sound like a group of people that were exhausted? A two minute video doesn't just happen spontaneously in two minutes. They practice and they do several takes and that takes time. Does that sounds like a busy and tired bunch? or a group that has nothing better to do?

Again, anecdote, but an anecdote for a hospital that had 1700 beds.

I had an operation in Feb 2021, but not in a hospital where they looked after Covid cases. It was arranged at short notice (a week?) almost as soon as I knew what was causing my "problem".
Someone I know here (in a different State) underwent cancer treatment some time around 2020/21. I never asked him the details but he was fine a couple of months back.

Clearly different places handled Covid differently. Your experience doesn't invalidate mine, neither mine yours.

Maybe I wouldn't be personally as resentful had my father not died or had I not seen the countless empty beds in that hospital.

China is still pursuing a Zero Covid policy despite the overwhelming evidence that it doesn't work. Florida is completely open and working well. Sweden never locked down.

Hopefully we can one day bring to justice those who abused their power and forced on the general public a vaccine that they knew didn't stop the spread. And who still want to enact anti-human policies despite of all the evidence that have already emerged in the last 3 years of the foolishness of their decisions.

All the people who lost their jobs and their livelihoods, and some lost their lives deserve justice.

Clearly different places handled Covid differently. Your experience doesn't invalidate mine, neither mine yours.

My daughter is a Registered Nurse at a hospital just a stones throw away from my house. They have had long periods where they were overrun with Covid patients. She works at the lung wing where special areas were isolated for Covid cases. So from direct experience: yes, there were many Covid cases, and yes many died, and yes definitely confirmed as Covid deaths. Recently there was a little uprise in Covid cases but that seems to be dwindling down already. Nothing compared to the first year which was disastrous.

A vaccine can have two effects, stop you getting the disease or reduce the "intensity". From what I can see the Covid vaccines reduced the intensity and the death rate dropped accordingly.
Having said that, I know a couple where they picked Covid up in February. She is fine but he has been having all kinds of health problems ever since. No guarantees.

Say what??? I guess all those doctors, dentists, nurses, and other health providers who wear masks (and actually wear them properly) for long periods of time day in and day out are all oxygen-deprived and killing themselves?