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| | + | ==Inflating the statistics on COVID vaccination acceptance== |
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| | + | A Mainpage-right article, placed at 18:28, 24 April 2021, says |
| | + | ::'''The [[CDC]] and other [[health]] authorities are inflating the [[statistics]] on [[COVID]] [[vaccination]]''' acceptance. ''In fact, many fewer people are taking it than the CDC says.'' |
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| | + | The item links to the external page [https://www.conservativenewsandviews.com/2021/04/24/accountability/science/manipulating-vaccine-recipients-numbers-to-isolate-the-non-vaccinated-their-hyper-inflated-numbers-are-just-not-true/], which is an article by Bradley Dean on the "conservative news and views" web site. Since the claims in that posting are so utterly at odds with what every sensible person knows to be true, I decided to check it out. |
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| | + | First, I ignored the Bible quotes sprinkled through it. These quotes all predate the Coronavirus and the vaccine. Why some people sprinkle completely irrelevant Bible quotes into their writing is beyond me. |
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| | + | :Ephesians 4:14 |
| | + | :John 8:44 |
| | + | :Deuteronomy 16:19 |
| | + | :Leviticus 17:11, 19:19 |
| | + | :Psalm 94:20 |
| | + | :Romans 1:18 |
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| | + | Now one of the major points of the article seems to be: |
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| | + | ::The truth be told, the only ones that we can verify that are dying are the ones that have taken their vaccines (Leviticus 17:11, 19:19). |
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| | + | The only ones that ''you'' can verify? Other people seem to be able to verify over 1/2 a million people in this country that aren't just dying; they have died. And most of them died before a vaccine became available, so they couldn't have "taken their vaccines". |
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| | + | You shouldn't just make stuff up. Especially when it flies in the face of the reality that every sensible person knows. |
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| | + | Another major statement is |
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| | + | ::I have a friend that is the main law enforcement officer in his county. One day, he voluntarily told me that we are being told that 75% of the elderly have been vaccinated by the mainstream media and yet, these numbers do not fit. He went on and said that we have 147,000 alone in this county. He said that he had the real numbers in front of him. And out of that 147,000 only 5,400 people had received their vaccinations. Friends, that is not 75%; that is less than 3%. |
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| | + | :Who is this friend? |
| | + | :What county? |
| | + | :Who are "the elderly"? How is that defined? Isn't 75% a suspiciously imprecise number? |
| | + | :We are being told this? By whom? |
| | + | :"These numbers do not fit." You're probably right. But it would be good to know that the numbers actually are, and what they are supposed to fit with. |
| | + | :He has the real numbers in front of him? Good. Publish them. Just copy and paste them into the article. Internet space is cheap. That's better than telling us what an anonymous friend told you. |
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| | ==Pseudoscience== | | ==Pseudoscience== |