If they are unfaithful in the little things...
They will be unfaithful in the big things. A CDC story.
With all that is going on surrounding ‘creating the narrative’ about COVID - and particularly about COVID ‘vaccines’ - I find that debunking the small stories is more enlightening than trying to deal with the big ones.
Big stories are made of little ones - and if you can show the little ones are false… the whole thing collapses.
In the recent run up to get mRNA shots for the youngest kids (under 5 years old), the CDC has published a slate of ‘studies’ and ‘papers’ and infographics.
To show you just how low they will sink to try to push the public to a specific decision instead of an honest appraisal of the evidence - look at this graphic.
This is slide #26 from a PowerPoint created by the CDC.
(Not surprisingly, the conclusions of this presentation are that COVID is terrible for young children and they need to be vaccinated
.)
The above table is based upon this paper by Flaxman, et al. where they look at deaths from various causes in people under age 18.
(Not surprisingly, the conclusions of this paper are that kids must be vaccinated
: “Our findings underscore the importance of continued vaccination campaigns for CYP over 5 years of age in the US and for effective Covid-19 vaccines for under 5-year-olds.”)
And at first glance, the table is scary. COVID is the 4th or 5th leading cause of death in every age group!!!! Panic!!! Get your junior the jab now!!!!
But here is what they actually did to make COVID look this serious.
They compared the two year cumulative
COVID deaths to the yearly
deaths of every other disease.
Talk about unfair! They are comparing a two-year total for COVID to single-year averages for everything else.
They had the data. It is in the Flaxman paper. Just sitting there.
They chose the number that made COVID look worse and made their argument for vaccinating young kids stronger.
They lied.
You don’t even have to dive deeply into the paper to find this information. It is just sitting there in Table 1. In fact, Flaxman calculates the rank for COVID deaths using both cumulative and annualized (yearly) death rates. (The only reason I can possibly see to do this ‘apples and oranges’ comparison is to allow the CDC to cherry-pick exactly as it did.) [Enough fruit analogies, sorry.]
The CDC picked only the ‘cumulative COVID’ vs ‘yearly other causes’.
Here is one example for the 1 through 4-year-olds (the other age groups are exactly the same and similarly easy to find yourself).
Table 1(b)
As anyone can plainly see, yearly COVID deaths (I underlined in blue) among this age group are low (half that of the flu - even as flu virtually disappeared for the last two years) and COVID ranks as the 8th most common cause of death among this age group.
So, just a reminder: they have the annualized COVID death data (underlined in blue above) putting it a #8, but is that what was reported by the CDC in their presentation?
Nope!
They picked the rank of the cumulative COVID deaths. 5th, not 8th.
The CDC did this in every age category.
On purpose.
Also, even though COVID ranked 8th, the numbers were very low: about 20x more kids died from accidents and 4.5x more died from either cancer or homicide. Just because it is in the top ten does not necessarily mean it is a major killer.
If they are unfaithful in the little things...
Updates: based on criticisms exactly like mine (one example: https://www.covid-georgia.com/pediatric-news/fact-check-covid-is-a-leading-cause-of-death-in-children/), the authors of the paper are "updating" their article (https://twitter.com/flaxter/status/1538533537355288577?s=20&t=o5zT6QWOk7wn5dGbruZcew)