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[–] Syldon 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

I hate scepticism over vaccines, but when it has just been announced that vaccines can be sold to the public for around £100 each, and then this comes along. They say ignore how many are being admitted to hospital as other consequences are more dangerous.

I have followed the hospital rates as a metric for over a year now. I don't see any other metric as valid. The death rate is reduced as the most vulnerable have been seen off. The reporting rate is non-existent because people are not interested anymore. People are under pressure to attend work with covid now, so why would they bother with the testing kits. Patients in hospital is the most sensible data point to me.

Why are we not being told of which areas are showing the most cases? Covid cases are drastically reduced now. Which hospitals are taking in large amounts of cases?

It would be stupid to take unnecessary risks, but this has a bad smell of fear mongering to sell vaccines around it for me.

[–] starlinguk@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The vaccines are still free in many countries. PS the latest booster vaccinated against the wrong variant.

@starlinguk @CollisionResistance @Syldon it will always be the wrong variant, that's the fun of quickly-mutating viruses

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