It's too bad you aren't going to discuss this. You should know me by now well enough that I always provide sources. And you've even seen me change my mind based on data even if it hurts my argument. Maybe you thought I was Marke? Now that's a curiosity to me that you replied to him repeatedly when he usually would need only a couple replies to get to the bottom of his points.
The numbers I asked for weren't for the efficacy of the vaccine. The short term numbers are great for them. What I can't find is an apples to apples comparison of western societies where the vaccine was used and it wasn't. There is no 15 second search that answers that. Those are the numbers we need. It's the only numbers I've asked for and I sought for them myself of course.
You should know me better than that.
I read one post where you replied to Marke and then the relies to me. I don't have time to read every post and I'm sure Marke did not ask for the numbers I did.
I'm not lying. The specific numbers I asked for probably won't show up for months just like the treatment, mask, and lockdown numbers - when it was too late.
I didn't call you a hypocrite, but I did point out a possible hypocrisy. If it were me I would have defended my post or admitted my lapse.
Saying the vaccine is the only way out of the pandemic is at least inferring that we need it.
That's too bad. I'm bringing up good points. And since we've been in the trenches together for years you might consider that iron sharpens iron instead of malice on my part.
First, the conspiracy nuts turned out to be right about treatments, masks, and lockdowns so be careful about that accusation. Second, we can't have long term data about the vaccines because it can't exist for some time.
That's too bad. We are more brothers than strangers and throwing away allies in times like these will do more harm than good in the long run.
Again,that's too bad. In closing let me say that if treatments we now know work had not been suppressed the numbers would show zero excess deaths, even without the vaccines. Thevaccines were/are not the only way out of the pandemic.
Okay, so first of all, I apologize for my last post. The thick headed conspiracy theorists on this thread have gotten me to a point where I really don't even want to be here on TOL at all and I definitely have lost all interest in discussing this particular topic. None of that has anything to do with you and I shouldn't have responded to your post the way I did.
Having said that, I cannot imagine what it is your searching for that's so difficult to find.
United States
United States Coronavirus update with statistics and graphs: total and new cases, deaths per day, mortality and recovery rates, current active cases, recoveries, trends and timeline.
www.worldometers.info
Russia
Russia Coronavirus update with statistics and graphs: total and new cases, deaths per day, mortality and recovery rates, current active cases, recoveries, trends and timeline.
www.worldometers.info
Those links will show you a graph of the daily deaths from COVID in the US and then in first country that popped into my mind that isn't an ally of the US and therefore hasn't had access to these vaccines (at least not in the numbers of doses that would be needed to have the pandemic under control the way we and other western countries do.)
Indonesia
Indonesia Coronavirus update with statistics and graphs: total and new cases, deaths per day, mortality and recovery rates, current active cases, recoveries, trends and timeline.
www.worldometers.info
Iran
Iran Coronavirus update with statistics and graphs: total and new cases, deaths per day, mortality and recovery rates, current active cases, recoveries, trends and timeline.
www.worldometers.info
Then look at nations who have the vaccines...
France
France Coronavirus update with statistics and graphs: total and new cases, deaths per day, mortality and recovery rates, current active cases, recoveries, trends and timeline.
www.worldometers.info
Italy
Italy Coronavirus update with statistics and graphs: total and new cases, deaths per day, mortality and recovery rates, current active cases, recoveries, trends and timeline.
www.worldometers.info
Now, to be fair, that really doesn't give anywhere near the whole picture because vaccines aren't the only thing that effect the spread of the virus. There are other factors, such as natural immunity, population density, health care infrastructure, etc. And that's not to mention the fact that all the numbers are inflated in various ways for all kinds of political reasons that make the numbers questionable in the first place. BUT - Ignoring the untrustworthy numbers for the time being - there are, for example, tens of millions of people in the US (I think the number is much much higher than that actually) who have had COVID and recovered from it and so far more than the 48% who have been vaccinated are immune to the disease and so we may be very close to herd immunity, if we haven't already achieved it in this country. It is, therefore, probably not even possible to do a true apples to apples comparison between countries based solely on vaccine usage.
Clete
P.S. Now, if I disappear from this thread, its only because this topic now bores me to tears and its a waste of time anyway.