Saturday, February 12, 2022

SatStats


SatStats

I haven't been following the Canada truckers too closely but, from what I can see, the government has declared they can't work without a lot of restrictions. When the truckers objected, the government said they had to go home or they couldn't work.
The government isn't just ignoring the truckers, it's ignoring itself.

1. According to Johns Hopkins researcher Marty Makary, the results of the latest data on reinfection rates demonstrated that “natural immunity was 2.8 times as effective in preventing hospitalization and 3.3 to 4.7 times as effective in preventing Covid infection compared with vaccination.”
Yet, the CDC spun the truth when reporting on this study. They claimed “vaccination remains the safest strategy for averting future SARS-CoV-2 infections, hospitalizations, long-term sequelae, and death,” based on a comparison between hybrid immunity (combination of prior infection and vaccination) with natural immunity. They did not clarify what the study’s results actually show: that vaccination does not significantly reduce the risk of hospitalization for those with natural immunity.



2. A new study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) supposedly shows that wearing a face mask in public places dramatically reduces your risk of catching COVID-19. The CDC summed up the results in a widely shared graphic that says wearing a cloth mask “lowered the odds of testing positive” by 56 percent, while the risk reduction was 66 percent for surgical masks and 83 percent for N95 or KN95 respirators.
Regrettably, the footnotes state that the results were not statistically significant. So, why did they publish it as confirmatory?

This is the CDC. This is our public health organization, not an enemy with the intent of dangerous propaganda. This is us!

Populations and 'Low Incomes:'
The increase in U.S. incomes from the 1930s to the 1940s led elderly persons to move out of their children’s homes into rooms and apartments of their own. Presumably, both the older persons and the families with growing children found that separate establishments provided a real advance in their welfare. Yet the usual income distribution data will report an increase in inequality: the number of “low-income families” – in the form of newly created “families” of older persons who had previously been included with their children – has increased.

An add-on. 
The National Review, a very conservative mag, devoted an entire issue to the 1619 semi-controversy. The 1619 creator, Ms. Hannah-Jones, responded and the NR wrote a review of her response. Both are interesting and telling.
The NR can be harsh but, the more I read this, the greater Hannah-Jones' self-inflicted wound is. This is really bad.

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