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I live in Ontario and about a week after this inversion of vaxxed seeing Much higher cases per (at first absolute numbers for several weeks and then the final straw , per capita) govt have totally changed what data they now report. They won’t focus on cases anymore. They say it’s due to lack of testing capacity as cases explode .

They also mislead the public by reporting on news hospitalizations as vaxxed , partial , and unvaxxed but neglect a huge ‘vaccine unknown’ category which now makes up the majority in hospitals and plurality of those in ICU. The unknowns are presumably mostly vaccinated.

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I am Texan. I live free. No "reasonably" here. BTW about 5 days into covid and feeling pretty good. It was like a medium to strong cold. Took nothing for it. No vitamins, no IM, no Hydroxy, although 2 nights I did take some aspirin. 67 YO and in good health.. Just go live your life ignore the noise, besides doing so infuriates the other side like poking them in the eye.

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I am perfectly willing to believe that vax data is the result of a Simpson’s paradox. It might be due to the age distribution of the vaccinated, who is likely to get tested, and/or the fact that the vaxxed are rushing to get boosters and suppressing their immune systems. It doesn’t matter. A negative VE ends the justification for vaccine passports. The vaccinated are not less likely to have the virus.

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It's like humanity is being given a global IQ test, and the masses are not as smart as they think.

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Thanks for this, as an Ontario resident. There doesn’t appear to be an epidemiologist in the province who is willing to say, “Hey, look at the numbers….”

Rather, they (along with the media) all appear to be spineless cheerleaders who parrot the government’s latest scary story

Thankfully, more and more people are thinking, and deciding, for themselves. Two years late, perhaps, but better late than never.

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I’m not wise cat, but I think that OAS has happened before. The 1918 Spanish flu claimed the lives of many people in the prime of their lives, particularly those aged about 30. The leading theory is that they were exposed to the Russian flu as young children in 1889-90. When the Spanish flu came along, it was close enough to the Russian flu that the immune system said “no problem, I’ve seen this before”. The immune system was wrong and launched the wrong defence.

Is this a ball of yarn or a hairball? Inquiring cats want to know.

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Jan 2, 2022Liked by el gato malo

another representation of the ontario data

https://web.elastic.org/~fche/blog4/posts/big_fat_zero/?updated

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Cases, cases, cases. i want deaths, hospitalizations and recoveries.

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Jan 2, 2022·edited Jan 2, 2022

Interesting - wonder how the govs will react if the trend continues and if the vaccines helped to push this variant becoming reality. To this day I still think that Omicron didn't originate in South Africa and it was the case that the scientists and doctors there had the balls to announce it first and give as much data as they had to help everybody.

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I think during this whole thing the metrics were USED to support the official narrative and people having lost their critical thinking don't look close enough. Thank you, good kitty, for being the leader to provide these analysis on a daily basis!

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Do you see any signal as between boosted and unboosted? I am hoping my refusal to boost will help me a bit. Otherwise, I’ll just be here keeping up with my supplements and consider taking up religion?

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I just had a zoom call last night with friends in Bend Oregon and Denver Colorado. One of the couple in Bend (triple injected) had covid - her partner did not. The other couple in Denver were about to have two friends visit (I assume injected as the couple both are triple injected) who both came down with Covid so had to cancel, and my daughter knows 3 people from her old (small) school who now have Covid - all injected. So I have to agree that the injection does not appear to be working all that well for some people as a "vaccine".

However, I too have had a very slight cold the last few days with a slight sore throat but nothing much more, just a bit tired, and people (especially the injected ones) keep asking me if I've tested for Covid. Why? I don't see the point - why play the game. I just have a minor cold. They are obsessed with testing.

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I write about the Canadian data frequently, most recently in my article "Canadian Blackout"... But basically all over the country governments at every level are changing the rules of blacking out data in favor of the vaccinated. It's pretty blatant

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Jan 2, 2022·edited Jan 2, 2022

Like others have said the Ontario data is soon to be rather useless as the government has cried uncle.

So now you can only get tested if you show symptoms. Our positivity rate was 33% back on the 30th, I imagine it’s higher but have not looked.

No talk of hiring back the fired unvaxxed, we are still scarlet lettered and it’s full on boostering everything in sight. Which per gato is probably making things much worse.

[edit] this is the official govt line on testing:

-Free PCR testing was previously open to all members of the public but last week, the province announced that those tests will now be reserved exclusively for high-risk individuals who are symptomatic or at risk of severe illness from the novel coronavirus.-

Final note: very few of Canadians have natural immunity, we “crushed” covid early on and boy was there a lot of smug comparisons to the USA going on, until recently 😂.

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It doesn't seem like a question at this point that Omi evades vaccines. This doesn't surprise me since the vaccine efficacy stopped looking good a long time ago.

My only real question is whether it evades natural immunity too and if so to what extent. I've seen studies that go either way.

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