CDC data shows greatly reduced deaths with 2 boosters

Maybe he was a farmer plowing his field? /S

By the by, tRUMP tried to silence and manipulate the CDC... and succeeded often. I have many more like this.

Senators like Rand Pauk and Gym Jordon were effective.... by threatening defundund and... House judicial releases New documents show Trump Admin silenced CDC at start of pandemic, tried to alter expert scientific reports, and then tried to delete evidence they were doing so. We were the most prepared nation in the world but now more than 750,000 Americans have died. https://t.co/6OOMMy78Wn?amp=1

‘Emails show Trump officials celebrating after CDC caved to demands to downplay COVID risks. It includes Paul Alexander and Roger Stone mentored Caputo… working for tRUMP not the health of Americans! Alexander also told Caputo about how he teamed up with Trump adviser Dr. Scott Atlas to alter a CDC weekly report on coronavirus-related deaths among young Americans.’ They also talked about COOKING NUMBERS including deaths by suicide! "We need solid estimates to be able to say something like: 50,000 more cancer deaths! 40,000 more heart attacks! 25,000 more suicides!" Caputo wrote. https://www.rawstory.com/rump-officials-downplay-risks/

The CDC drafted a sweeping order last month requiring all passengers and employees to wear masks on all forms of public and commercial transportation in the U.S., but it was blocked by the White House, according to federal health officials. https://t.co/NHhwHuUF9M?amp=1

Shortly after admitting that the virus can be transmitted in airborne aerosols, the CDC pulled down that info… ‘the CDC removed this information from its website, bizarrely explaining that it “does not reflect our current state of knowledge.”’ Even in February, on Woodward’s tapes, trump admitted it was in the air you breathe… yet the CDC is denying critical information as people head indoors in winter, to inadequate ventilation environments. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/22/yes-airborne-transmission-is-happening-cdc-needs-set-record-straight/

Sept 17 Testing guidelines CDC: “C.D.C. Testing Guidance Was Published Against Scientists’ Objections. A controversial guideline saying people without Covid-19 symptoms didn’t need to get tested for the virus came from H.H.S. officials and skipped the C.D.C.’s scientific review process.” It came from HHS! That means Caputo and Alexander… https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/health/coronavirus-testing-cdc.html?referringSource=articleShare

OMG… “The managing editor of the prominent conservative website RedState has spent months trashing U.S. officials tasked with combating COVID-19, dubbing White House coronavirus task force member Dr. Anthony Fauci a “mask nazi,” and intimating that government officials responsible for the pandemic response should be executed.” William B. Crews is a public affairs specialist for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. *NIH* but uses “streiff” when he writes at RedState . He is stepping down now… imagine that… https://www.thedailybeast.com/redstate-covid-troll-streiff-is-actually-bill-crews-and-he-actually-works-for-dr-anthony-fauci

Well, actually, the former administration did tru to dictate to the CDC and FDA. The proof of what you wrote is despite this the scientists did not cave in completely and that interference is now known.

Yes, individuals caved. Political appointees and the like caved. But the antivaxxer fellow maintains that every public health worker in the world caved. They all know the vaccine does not work, but they have been ordered to say it does, and they follow orders because they are afraid of losing their jobs. This is a comic book view of the world. The antivaxxer apparently never met a scientist, public health worker, or a doctor.

Nah, let him enjoy his ignorance and stupidity too. He’s right about some things but goes off the deep end on others.

10% is how I figure it. I often make mistakes doing arithmetic.

I looked carefully and the 6 is definitely per 100,000 per week. It looks like around 6.3 to me. (Somewhere on this screen you can download the exact numbers . . . not sure where.) 30 years is 1565 weeks, so that's 9860 deaths per 100,000. ~10%.

You have a whole new group of old people after 30 years. Nearly the entire population of 50+ people are dead after 30 years. But does that matter? The person who does not vaccinate is like a metal duck moving slowly across a carnival shooting gallery, where they shoot 1 in 300 ducks every year. Regardless of how many new ducks they add, and how many drop off the end, the overall population of 50+ people does not change much, and the unvaccinated person is a sitting duck target for 30 years, so I guess the chances of being hit are 1 in 10.

Right? Someone should check my arithmetic. Anyway, it is stupid to risk severe illness or death for one year with 1 chance in 300 of death.

I was going to check the math, but have a bout of COVID and I am presently in a brain blackout. I am older so everything was Already harder! (Math for me is hard, but like you I still try and may fail even after I check it. My brain hurts just trying, so maybe ask on the main page for someone to do the math and show the work so we can see it? )

The stats given on the data sites are usually per total cases, not per capita... but this chart says per 100k of population of over age 50 ... so you are likely very close but Perlinator needs to add:

Deaths per 100k of population over age 50

Definitely per week. The introductory paragraph at the top says:

"To monitor rates of COVID-19 cases and deaths by vaccination status, data are reported from jurisdictions that can link case surveillance data to immunization registries and identify the vaccination status of people who test positive for COVID-19. The participating jurisdictions represent over 60% of the U.S. population and all regions of the country. This page displays an interactive figure showing overall weekly rates of COVID-19 cases and deaths among people ages 5 years and older by vaccination status and COVID-19 positive specimen collection date."

Several other pages in this section say "per week" in the graph caption.