Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Vaccination disappointments" video.

  1.  @TheAlyconaria  So, the fact that someone may be wrong in their assessment of risk means that they "need" someone else to force highly personal, intimate decisions on them? Only if you could PROVE that one person's decision to forego an immunotherapy vaccine would present a grave danger to others in the community would you have any basis to usurp their decision making autonomy over their own bodies. There is no such proof. There never was. To insinuate that it exists is a lie. The OP didn't say his experience was capable of being generalized. But when personal experience deviates so greatly from the statistics provided by certain governments, it is rational to ask questions. It is not rational to draw conclusions. But it is rational to seek out more information. According to Worldometer, COVID has a very low case fatality rate in Japan. Who knows why? (Who knows if the numbers are accurate?) If that is true, then the OP's personal experience is hardly a surprise. In any case, when US mainstream media invades the hospital rooms of dying COVID patients with their cameras, that is mere anecdote as well. It is also profoundly indecent.
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  2.  @amiesparkle00  They initially had a slow rollout of the vaccine, and there was not a high percentage vaccinated during the Olympics, or for the major part of this epidemic. Once they had an opportunity to get vaccinated, that was done very efficiently, yes.
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  3. Just checked Worldometer statistics on COVID in Japan. What are you doing to keep the case fatality rate at about one-half of what the US has been seeing? Do you know?
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  4. Thank you for the report. Take care and all the best.
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  5.  @aquarocket8165  Where did you read that? Who are you quoting?
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  6.  @amiesparkle00  It doesn't prove a thing. It raises a question -- a perfectly rational one.
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  7.  @amiesparkle00 Well there are lots of questions concerning the integrity of the data. If the data is true, the US has 15 times the death rate Japan has, relative to population. Japan has fewer than 19,000 deaths. In the US, that would be equivalent to 50,000 deaths, not 750,000. I want to know what's going on. That is 700,000 people we are talking about. Why should anyone listen to a government that keeps changing its story? And that has failed spectacularly.
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  8.  @amiesparkle00  Having the Olympics, even without spectators, was not "severe" border control.
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  9.  @amiesparkle00  And how do know that's the reason for 700,000 excess deaths? Gosh you're quick with answers. Science deals in questions.
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  10.  @amiesparkle00  No it has not. Give me a single study, pre-print if not yet peer-reviewed, that scientifically examines these differences and gives an account of them -- not necessarily US and Japan, but one that includes any two larger countries with disparate death rates by orders of magnitude. We are EARLY in the process of understanding this pandemic and how this virus behaves.
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  11.  @amiesparkle00  Yeah, multivariate regression; and combing the data in the first instance to make sure it's correct before analyzing it, LOL.
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  12.  @amiesparkle00  Politically-approved talking points don't require math. LOL
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  13. I am just so sorry about all of this.
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