So you're discounting the "outlier"?JohnStOnge wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 4:57 pmFirst of all, 67% is not a high vaccination rate. It's RELATIVELY high. But my understanding is that, with something as contagious as the Delta variant is, it would take something like a 90% vaccination rate to see the effect we want.
Secondly, that is just one observation. Earlier this summer I went through the trouble of doing a correlation between State vaccination rate and State case rate. I got a highly significant negative correlation such that higher vaccination rate was associated with lower case rate. I guess I can do that again. But you know what's going to happen. I'm going to get the same result.
That does not mean one can't find a few examples of jurisdictions with high vaccination rates and high case rates. But the overall trend is higher vaccination rate is associated with lower case rate.
You know...in fact I think you ought to remember when I did that because I THINK that's when you said something about the data I used and I said it was from Worldometers.
Another thing is that we need to see what percentage of those Bermuda cases are among the unvaccinated. About one third of the population is not vaccinated. If it turned out that something like 80 or 90% of those cases are among the unvaccinated the data are not going to support the point you're trying to make.
And yet people scream from the mountain tops every time someone under 60 dies from the disease. And why? Because literally EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. makes the news. "30 year old mother of 4"; "42 year old health nut" "35 year old triathlete" etc., etc., etc. ALL are outliers, but they're crammed down our throats to "prove" how dangerous the new variant is to the younger population.