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I wrote an article two years ago saying you don't have to know any "science" to reject the vaccines (especially if you are under age 45 and especially if you are a healthy child). All you need is basic math skills that would allow you to understand simple statistical probabilities. What are the odds you would die from Covid?

For a healthy child (0 to 17) with no severe pre-existing conditions, the odds you would die from Covid in the span of a 1-year time in the first year of the pandemic were about 1-in-1.95 million. This is based on an in-depth UK study that looked at the real causes of all childhood deaths in the first year of the pandemic. As a percentage, that risk is 0.0001 percent.

Only six "healthy" children in the UK died "from" Covid in the first 12 months of the pandemic - out of about 11.7 million children who did not have severe pre-existing or 'life-altering" medical conditions.

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Cross-posted! Amazing work!

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Dec 8, 2022Liked by No College Mandates

Remarkably well written. Saving for future reference.

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Dec 8, 2022Liked by No College Mandates

So what do you figure? Somewhere between 100k and 1m people in the western world who deserve life at hard labor over all of this?

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The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is STILL mandating covid jabs and covid testing for staff and students.

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By March 2020 Iwas criticizing use of any resources to protect the non-obese and not immunocompromised younger than 50. I later raised this to younger than 70. The disease had an age-delimited profile with little to no harm for most "youngsters"

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I wonder if some of the university requirements are in fact driven by federal research contracts...e.g. an explicit or implied quid pro quo whereby it is known among NIH grantseekers that are professors that if there is a low vaccination rate at the college then the reasearch grant request has a lower likelihood of being approved. Could that be one of the reasons some colleges have been so militaristic in their mandates?

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Wayne state university in Michigan is one of the few remaining colleges claiming to follow science and require a covid vaccine and booster plus the flu vaccine. If you get an exemption you must test weekly.

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What an excellent summary of the disaster we've all witnessed over the past 2 years!

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The most surprising part of this article for me is the math around infection survival rate with and w/out the vaccine. I've read so many articles saying that x% of unvaccinated die of Covid infection and (much smaller) x% of vaccinated die. This is a different way of looking at the mortality data than what Bourbon has done here -- how am I to know which is the more accurate?

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