Just a heads up, I'm vaccinated and currently have covid. I was sick for days, barely able to smell, was freezing cold, had headaches — all as you describe. So.. not sure it will help you.
Vaccines reduce the severity of disease, sometimes to the point of no noticeable effect. They may reduce probability of transmission.
Too many politicians make "X is true therefore Y is true" statements that cannot actually be made based on the data being cited. One thing that's been clear from the beginning is the need for nuance and consideration of the details, not just blind jumps. There are health statisticians and mathematicians that do this sort of study for a living and I wish more politicians would cite their work.
They're two separate data points, he hasn't done this
He's stated separately that 92% of the country is vaccinated AND (separately) half of ICU admissions are from the unvaccinated, what it means is that that remaining 8% are responsible for more than half of the COVID hospitalisations
Considering how much of a surveillance state AUS has, they likely do have the data to draw these conclusions
It really does show how effective they are in also reducing the severity of the condition, which is a very important point to make
> It really does show how effective they are in also reducing the severity of the condition, which is a very important point to make
This is exactly what I was referring to in my previous comment. These are hypotheses, and professionals are needed to establish causality. This _is_ a nuanced issue, it's not simple (despite what almost everyone seems to think), and we should start ignoring simplistic sound bites on this topic.