With such high ‘breakthrough’ rates in many countries, is it really worth getting the jab?

As governments around the world are continuing to encourage, bully and coerce their people to getting jabbed - many for the 3rd and even 4th time - there are increasing numbers of reports about the level of breakthrough cases in highly-vaccinated populations.

Just a few headlines:

12th November 2021

Vermont has the highest vaccination rate in the USA, at 72% of residents, but it has the 12th highest rate of new COVID-19 cases.

6th November 2021

“A massive 99.5% of adults over the age of 18 in Co Waterford are double-jabbed. That's thought to be one of the highest rates of any region anywhere in the world. But the county now tops the national infection league table.”

17th November 2021

Gibraltar's vaccination rate is 118%, taking into account the fully vaccinated Spaniards who travel across the border every day for work. The recent spike is the biggest surge the tiny populous has seen since January 2021.

Even two months ago, there was an article with this headline:

In West Flanders, 60 out of 64 municipalities are above 80% vaccination, which is far above the Belgian average (76%). With an incidence of 1,363 cases per 100,000 inhabitants over the last 14 days, it is by far the province where the virus is circulating the most.

From The Highwire, Ep.242, at 26:20

So, how well are the COVID-19 jabs working in the UK at the moment?

Let's look at the data from the latest UK Government Vaccine Surveillance Report, for the four weeks to 14th November:

Out of a total of 9,760 overnight hospitalisations, 64% (6,233) were fully vaccinated and 33% (3,200) were unvaccinated. Taking first doses into account, 67% had received at least one shot.

Out of 3,650 deaths within 28 days of a positive COVID-19 test, 78.7% (2,875) were fully vaccinated and 18.5% 9675) were unvaccinated. 81.5% had received at least one shot.

Now, according to Our World In Data, as at 14th November, 67.5% of the UK population was fully vaccinated, with 74.2% having received at least one dose.

So, the 67.5% of the population that’s fully vaccinated account for 64% of hospitalisations and 78.7% of deaths from COVID-19.

The 33% of the population that’s not vaccinated accounts for 33% of hospitalisations and 18.5% of deaths.

Of course, there are many contributing factors that aren’t taken into account here – notably the young age and therefore relatively good health of most of the unvaccinated. And taking a broad average across all age groups for the ‘rates per 100,000’ (p.23 of the report), the government data does shows that the unvaccinated are roughly three times more likely to both be hospitalised and die.

Nevertheless, I think it’s important to look at the actual / 'absolute' risk reduction these vaccines are giving.

Turning the ‘per 100,000’ into a straight percentage, 99.94% of the unvaccinated population have NOT been hospitalised with COVID in the last 4 weeks, compared to 99.98% of the fully vaccinated population. That means taking the vaccine reduces the risk of getting hospitalised – which was already freakishly low - by 0.038%.

And for death within 28 days, the percentage of unvaccinated people that have NOT died within the last 4 weeks is 99.97%, compared to 99.99% of the vaccinated. That’s an absolute risk reduction of 0.02%.

And yet, according to the Yellow Card data, those who take the jab/s have around a 0.5% chance of suffering a nervous system disorder (things like paralysis and seizures). Assuming government estimates are correct, and that only around 10% of serious adverse events are reported, the proportion could be as high as 5%.

So, do you really want to take an experimental jab that could reduce your chance of an overnight stay in hospital with COVID by 0.03%, but also carries a risk of between 0.5% and 5% of you suffering a potentially life-changing nervous system disorder?

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Now take a look at this interesting article by The Expose, which uses the same government vaccine surveillance data to examine the massive decline in vaccine effectiveness over time and, worryingly, the possible rise in immunodeficiency among the vaccinated.

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Read the full article here.