Another big government lie about COVID vaccine use

We must be vigilant about questioning government assertions

The CDC has indicated on their website for months that 92% of adults have taken at least on shot of a COVID-19 vaccine. The first time I saw this figure I thought that it just doesHE not seem correct based on everything I knew. Telling the public that such a high fraction of American have been vaccinated is just another way to pressure people to take the shot.

Indeed, prior surveys Zogby and Rasmussen indicated that fraction may only be two thirds or about 67%.

Now a recent, independent report from Northeastern University has found that the proportion of unvaccinated is not 8% but more like 25%. Between June 9 and July 7, 2021, the new study we surveyed 20,669 individuals across all 50 states plus the District of Columbia. The survey was conducted by PureSpectrum via an online, nonprobability sample, with state-level representative quotas for race/ethnicity, age, and gender (for methodological details on the other waves, see covidstates.org). In addition to balancing on these dimensions, we reweighted our data using demographic characteristics to match the U.S. population with respect to race/ethnicity, age, gender, education, and living in urban, suburban, or rural areas. This was the latest in a series of surveys we have been conducting since April 2020, examining attitudes and behaviors regarding COVID-19 in the United States. [PLEASE NOTE THA THIS STUDY DID NOT EXPLICITLY TAKE INTO ACCOUNT WHETHER PERSONS WERE WELL INFORMED ABOUT COVID FROM NON GOVERNMENT, TRULY INDEPENDENT INFORMATION SOURCES, LIKE THIS NEWSLETTER.]

“Key Takeawa
● On average, Americans have warmer feelings towards people who are vaccinated
against COVID-19. On a thermometer scale from 0 to 100 degrees, the average
feeling towards people who are vaccinated is 78 degrees, versus 45 degrees for
those who are not vaccinated. [PERSONALLY I REJECT THIS VIEW; THE AVERAGE DOES NOT HOLD FOR WELL INFORMED PEOPLE.]
● In particular, people who are vaccinated themselves tend to report an average of
86 degrees towards others who are vaccinated and 35 degrees towards those who
are not. In contrast, those who are not vaccinated feel the same towards other
people regardless of vaccination status, reporting an average of 64 degrees for
both groups.
● Among partisans, Democrats and Biden voters, feel warmest towards people who
are vaccinated (85 degrees average) and coldest towards those who are not
vaccinated (38 degrees average). However, even Republicans and Independents
feel substantially warmer towards vaccinated individuals than they do towards the
unvaccinated (average difference of 22 degrees for Independents and 17 degrees
for Republicans for feelings towards people who are vaccinated compared to
people who are not).
● Americans over 65 report the coldest feelings towards people who are not
vaccinated (average 36 degrees) and warmest towards people who are vaccinated
(average 85 degrees), compared to all other age groups.

This new sturdy agrees separately with a Kaiser Family Foundation report.

Apparently the CDC vaccination administration system is not accurately identifying each person by a unique identifier and linking each injection to that code. Therefore, if a patient does not have the prior vaccine card or goes to a different vaccines center with slightly different name spelling, then the encounter is counted as a brand new person coming forward. This is leading to double-counting of “vaccinated” in CDC records. Nice trick.

Unsurprisingly, the results by vote choice, shown in Figure 2, convey a similar message. Joe Biden voters were, on average, colder (37 degrees) towards people who are not vaccinated compared to voters for Donald Trump (55 degrees). Towards vaccinated people, Biden voters reported an average of 86 degrees while Trump voters reported an average of 72 degrees.

Unsurprisingly, there are enormous differences in sentiment toward the
vaccinated/unvaccinated based on their own vaccination status. Respondents who are
vaccinated themselves feel very warmly towards others who have gotten the vaccine,
reporting an average of 86 degrees towards this group. They also feel very coldly towards those who did not receive the vaccine, reporting an average of 35 degrees towards the unvaccinated. For people who did not receive the vaccine themselves, their feelings towards those who did and did not get vaccinated are quite similar, reporting an average of 64 degrees for both. This suggests that, on average, people who are not vaccinated themselves do not feel differently about others based on their COVID-19 vaccination status, which contrasts sharply with people who are vaccinated themselves.

Democrats, unvaccinated respondents are more likely to feel more positive about people who are vaccinated compared to those who are not (average difference of 15 degrees). On the other hand, Republicans who have not been vaccinated feel warmer towards people who did not get the vaccine compared to those who have (average difference of -15 degrees), suggesting the average feeling towards vaccinated people is actually lower than unvaccinated people. These findings give new hope to the unvaccinated that they are not alone in holding strong against the adverse safety profile of the COVID-19 vaccines and standing up for the preservation of good health and right to decide what is injected into their bodies.

CONCLUSION
Overall, it is clear that the American public is beginning to draw a line between people
who are vaccinated and people who are not. By gathering, analyzing, and representing
respondents’ subjective feelings towards vaccinated and unvaccinated people using the
feeling thermometer, we have used a simple yet powerful tool to show that the public
generally agrees with Governor Ivey’s sentiments that: “It's the unvaccinated folks that are letting us down”. These results suggest there will likely be increasing social pressure for people to get vaccinated themselves and expect those around them to do the same.”

SMART, INFORMED PEOPLE MUST RESIST THE PRESSURE TO GET THE SHOT.