Thread by @YossiGestetner

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I am going to try to get this point across again with the hope that it will make an impact but with the expectation that it won’t gain traction the way dumb troll lines against Trump get engagements.

But here is a data-based policy thread:

2/ If you look in the Media column of my Twitter account, you will see data from states’ websites that large portions of COVID deaths the last 6-7 weeks are among the vaccinated. It ranges from 23.9% in Michigan, to 50.2% in Massachusetts and 53.6% in Vermont.

3/ When shown these government-sourced numbers, vaccine fanatics say “well, most of the population is vaccinated so these numbers are still better than among the unvaccinated.”

Cool point; one which I do not dispute but this misses a big problem that is going on NOW:

4/ Since the start of January of this year, there were more than 115,000 COVID-related deaths in the US.

If the vaccinated portion of those deaths are at the same rates as in MI to VT, it’s 27,485 to 61,640 VACCINATED COVID deaths over the last 7 weeks!

Hello?

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5/ Losing 27,485 to 61,640 VACCINATED people to COVID in 7 weeks is a DISASTER no matter how many times less likely those deaths are compared to the unvaccinated!

It’s 560 to 1,257 COVID deaths a day which is worse than many COVID days pre-vaccines.

How can we mitigate it?

6/ Science-denying vaccine fanatics in big tech, media and gov have shut down an added focus on healthy living/better immune despite the fact that most COVID dead had multiple comorbidities and that pre-COVID such a focus was normal.

Fauci in 2019🔻

7/ The singular focus on vaccines as THE fix against COVID deaths is so strong that of 280 tweets sent by the US CDC in Dec 2021, NOT ONE said anything about healthy living or about early care once infected. It was mask/jabs and jabs/masks. Oh, a tweet or two to stay home.

8/ Vaccines as a product are good (our household gives all mandated vaccines/boosters which in NY is TWENTY THREE shots before the ate of 12!), but vaccine fanaticism as seen the last 12 months is DEADLY! You get mocked if you push healthy living/early care.

#GetBoosted

9/ The unvaccinated (without prior infection) being more likely to die than recently vaccinated, doesn’t help the vaccinated who die especially when they account for half of recent deaths in some places and they have almost more deaths than unvaccinated deaths a few months back.

10/ Therefore, it is important for medical names, media and government officials to push for healthy living; early care and better hopsital access, but some of them are such vaccine fanatics that my first few tweets if this thread went right over their head.

11/ They repeat their point that the vaccinated are better than the unvaccinated.

Cool. I am not arguing against it! I am arguing that since HALF of recent covid deaths in some states are vaccinated (25K to 61K deaths nationwide in a mere 7 weeks), we need other tools too.

12/ Please explain what these vaccine fanatics don’t get with my point, and why they REFUSE to join the focus on other tools while they push the vaccine.

Like for real. Why does it bother them to also focus on more tools? Why do they want so many vaccinated people to die?