Recent content by Barbarian

If you understood it, you would surely not have posted it here to undercut your beliefs. By the end of 2022, about 80 percent of the U.S. population was vaccinated. Yet about 40% of the deaths from COVID-19 were unvaccinated people. If the vaccine did nothing at all, one would expect that only...

Vaccination made it much less dangerous to be exposed, for example. Vaccinated people are much less likely to be seriously ill or to die of COVID-19. Which seems like a pretty good thing to me.

Yes, that's the heart of your confusion. Even the chart you presented shows that unvaccinated people died at twice the rate of vaccinated people. Only about 20% of Americans remain unvaccinated. But that group accounted for about 40% of the deaths from COVID-19. You've confused total...

Bottom line, it turned out to work in the general population just as it did in the tests. So millions of lives saved by this vaccine. But nothing is 100% certain.

As the percentage of vaccinated Americans went from 0.0% to about 80%, the number of vaccinated people dying increased. You really can't figure out why that would be? Seriously? What matters is the percentage of deaths for vaccinated and unvaccinated people. Here's the facts you deleted...

CHICAGO — The American Medical Association (AMA) today released a new survey (PDF) among practicing physicians that shows more than 96 percent of surveyed U.S. physicians have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19, with no significant difference in vaccination rates across regions. Of the...

Did it protect people? Yes, it did. Was it as good as we expected, using data from similar viruses? No. But it saved lives. We know this because we can compare deaths in states with such distancing, compared to states that did not do it. Here's a pretty good summary...

Dr. Fauci has an extraordinary record as a physician. He was still seeing patients in spite of his position, because he felt it necessary to keep his perspective. As I said, he did the right thing with the evidence we had at the time. And he changed policies as new data indicated. Well...

If you think so, you weren't reading the scientific and medical literature. Early on, there was a lot of debate until the results of research came in. Would you like some examples? Yeah, it was designed to prevent serious illness and death. The reduction in transmission was an extra. CDC...

God says to pray for people. Even your enemies. Because everyone that comes to God, is a source of joy for Him. Don't worry about who deserves it; none of us really do. Just do it.

Yes. One could hardly have designed a less efficient biological weapon. It was, eventually, but the virus appeared first. That's how this sort of thing works. You use past knowledge to do the best thing possible. Eventually, we learned that it also transmits via aerosols... It takes...

A theocracy would be a great thing. But only if we let God do it. Men who tell you that they are doing for God what He would do, if He had all the facts, are merely power-hungry tyrants using religion as a mask.

Distance mattered. Because the virus spread in exhaled droplets, close proximity greatly increased the risk. But the risk didn't entirely go away at six feet.

More than one person in 330 died of COVID-19 in America. By 2022, about 77% of Americans had a COVID-19 infection. When is the last time a pandemic here had a frequency and mortality like that?

Science, as we know it today, was mostly the invention of the Ionian Greek philosophers, who emphasized observation and testing to learn about the world. The fact that God created an orderly universe from which all other created things emerged as He intended, is the reason science is so successful.