Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

The headlines blared “COVID-19 vaccines kill people!” “More vaccinated people die of COVID than non-vaccinated!” “COVID vaccines are a government conspiracy!” Wait a minute, though. Let’s think about this for a moment. For argument, assume that the vaccines Have no impact at all On your dying of COVID-19. The recent census figures say About eighty percent of the U.S. population is vaccinated. If our assumption that the vaccines have no impact at all holds, Then we’d expect four times the death rate for vaccinated people. (Eighty percent is four times greater Than the twenty percent unvaccinated population.) What even those who call the COVID-19 vaccines a killer admit Is that the rate of deaths between vaccinated and not Is far, far less than four-to-one in the United States. It’s less than two-to-one by even the most extreme sampling. What we must conclude, then, is that COVID-19 vaccines save lives. The conspiracy theorists’ own data proves it. Aren’t statistics a wonderful tool?