I continually see memes quoting statistics that claim to show the ineffectiveness of vaccines.
Anybody with even middle school level math competency should be able to see through the misrepresentation of these statistics.
A recent example stated that 85.7% of deaths over a particular week in Scotland were vaccinated people. The conclusion drawn was that the vaccines don't work because the vast majority of people dying were vaccinated.
What was left out in the post was that 94% of Scotland has received at least 1 dose and 74% has received 3 doses. That leaves only less than 6% of the population unvaxxed accounting for 12% of the deaths. This data suggests (suggests, doesn't prove anything), just the opposite of the conclusion drawn.
Misuse of statistics makes people look either stupid or dishonest. If you see something posted like this, you should immediately question your source. Anybody passing off this kind of stuff isn't vetting their sources or their numbers either through actual intent to mislead or sheer stupidity. Either way, the source cannot be trusted. Trusting such a source is just allowing yourself to be duped (which makes you a dupe) or a liar yourself.
Hold yourself to higher standards of integrity, please, everybody. It doesn't help anybody to lie about facts or pass on lies about facts.
“Detailed case information received by PHAC from provinces and territories, since December 14, 2020”
What is that? 3 days after the vax was offered to the public. What was the vax rate for the 1st few months to year? Don’t you think that can skew the “totals” drastically?
“It leaves out totals. Let's compare totals:”
Anyone with basic math skills and reasoning would know that the “totals” date back to a time when the mass majority of the population was unvaccinated… making the totals completely unusable without adjusting for vaccination rate over time.
Surprised someone with your math skills could overlook something so obvious
All this and the argument I responded to was using data from ONE week to make the case against the vaccines.
Besides, your argument is spurious.
What part of my argument is wrong? Are you claiming that the totals DON’T date back to December 14, 2020… it does. Or are you claiming the vaccination rate wasn’t very low in the first few months of the vaccine rollout... it was.
You are arguing as if they pulled a random week out that showed the data they wanted to see. They used the last reported week. The data is following a trend showing lower and lower efficacy over time.
Is this one week’s data the strongest evidence ever? No.
Is it note worthy? Yes.
Is it in line with several other sources showing a decline in efficacy over time? Yes.
The report says:
That's the most recent month. It doesn't support anything you just said.
https://imgur.com/a/4qG3y5J
You are wrong. The numbers you provided are from 14 Dec 2020 to 17 Apr 2022. Move the goalpost all you want.