Biguglygremlin

This thread dates back a few days :) but it does address some aspects that are not often dealt with in more recent times.

Do they still apply now?

Yes, we are being misled here as per usual by a belligerent, dishonest government and their tame 'experts' so, as far as the general population is concerned, it is 'an epidemic of the unvaccinated' and we have almost reached 80% vaccination.

I am not an anti-vac activist like the US dissidents who seem to be so active in our population but I do take some interest in the facts behind the fiction.

The vaccination numbers in Australia are fabricated by excluding large segments of the population on the all too convenient pretext, that was never really true, that children are somehow not involved.

The 'epidemic of the unvaccinated' concept does have some merit but it is not as clear as they would convey with their careful manipulation of the data and the media coverage. It's like watching a street stall with simple tricks depending totally on distraction and misdirection, and what astonishes me is that we seem, collectively, to buy it!
Public Perception

I note that in Canada there are lovely charts showing the shocking rate of deaths of the 'unvaccinated' and the nice low rates amongst the vaccinated but they include the entire population back to when vaccinations first started and guess how many sick people were vaccinated at that early stage?
Canada Deaths by Vaccination Status

Those numbers, when adjusted for the bigger picture would tell a significantly different story.

When you look at one short term recent Canadian study, which is not so easily distorted, the proportion of VACCINATED deaths was well beyond 40% if you include the partially vaccinated, which, whilst regrettable, is probably understandable, but if we are individually trying to plan a way forward surely we are entitled to see the whole picture more clearly.
Covid Deaths Saskatchewan

It seems that if you line up the death rates with the vaccination rates there is not the vast disparity that many are claiming.

Just to finish on the right note. There can be no doubt that vaccination is the key to moving forward. The wife and I have both been fully vaccinated. We will come into contact with the real thing, eventually, but that does not mean that we can afford to expose ourselves to Covid, or even the flu, in the middle of a collapsing health system.

They are talking about opening up here shortly and sending the kids back to school over the next few weeks.

We would be in a much better position if the politicians hadn't been stripping funds from the public hospitals for the past few decades.

The problem with opening up is that once initiated there is no turning back.

The next few months will test the health systems to and beyond their limits so it will be a bad time to get injured or end up with a common illness like appendicitis.

How are things going in your part of the world?

Twice as big as it needs to be eh? :)

Hi mrueschman,

Thank you!

I hadn't anticipated anyone unlocking ALL of the previous threads. It will be interesting to see how it plays out. :)

Thank you SusanR

I suppose I will have to brush the dust off my emails now.

I reckon he was putting in some extra fenceposts to keep those bears out and while he was dropping the posts into the holes in the rain he figured it out, although a gumboot full of muddy water is hardly an accurate scientific measurement. :)

Oh clever! You know way too much Sierra! :P

Diminishing returns is the reality underlying many things human and essentially summarises the entire pattern of our lives.

Hope, enthusiasm, excitement, and yes perhaps even placebo, are how we resist or even push back such a relentless force.

It seems to me that everything is tangled up together and perpetually circling around especially with the more subtle words.

Language, as we know it, is not adequate to really 'see' or clarify most aspects related to humans and numbers are beyond ambiguous.

Back to the origin of this thread, it is probably the paramount question for many forum members and readers.

Somewhere amongst the many threads over the history of this forum there will be aspects or suggestions that could resonate as a potential new direction.

All things being equal is an assumption that rarely holds true.

I have three different CPAP machines all set to deliver the same fixed pressure. (13 cmH2O)

For a long time now I have been gasping for breath with one of them, especially when I first put it on, and when I have slowed down my metabolism enough to survive it is still barely enough.

I have had occasion to switch machines a few times in recent weeks and the difference was really profound.

A few nights back I finally became frustrated enough to do a direct comparison of the actual airflow using the same mask.

Even when I removed the filter from the problematic machine it still delivered a significantly reduced airflow yet it was running at the prescribed pressure.

Is it possible that the machines become less effective over time with airflow yet still deliver the required pressure?

Could the pressure readout be inaccurate?

Is there a verification process to test a machine at home?

How can we trust the numbers?