No matter where you stand, these are difficult times for people everywhere. We all have to make decisions based on the information we have. There are people who have lived their lives accepting what the government and media tells them. Whether it's on the left are on the right, there are and media outlets and politicians who play into people's emotions to drive them in certain directions.
Fear is a powerful motivator to gain compliance. In the past year and 1/2 have shown a great deal of compliance attained through the use of fear and propaganda. All the media, both on the left and right, regurgitated the claim of 6% or 3% lethality, when that wasn't true. None of them have issued corrections and urge people to reevaluate the threat of the risk posed by the novel coronavirus.
Currently, there is more propaganda regarding the unvaccinated, with politicians of any side of the two-party fake paradigm saying there is a pandemic of the unvaccinated.
But how accurate is this claim? Is there really a pandemic of the unvaccinated? Can there be a pandemic of the nonvaccinated?
Literally, there can't be a pandemic of the unvaccinated, since a pandemic refers to a pathogen like a virus or bacteria that spreads in many communities across the globe. Clearly, the use of this phrase is as a metaphor to invoke the imagery of the pandemic of the novel coronavirus and the associated fear and threat to life that comes with it.
This narrative of a pandemic of the unvaccinated is a stigmatization and is not justified, as says Günter Kampf in a recent publication of the Lancet Journal.
COVID-19: stigmatising the unvaccinated is not justified
In the USA and Germany, high-level officials have used the term pandemic of the unvaccinated, suggesting that people who have been vaccinated are not relevant in the epidemiology of COVID-19. Officials’ use of this phrase might have encouraged one scientist to claim that “the unvaccinated threaten the vaccinated for COVID-19”.1 But this view is far too simple.
There is increasing evidence that vaccinated individuals continue to have a relevant role in transmission. In Massachusetts, USA, a total of 469 new COVID-19 cases were detected during various events in July, 2021, and 346 (74%) of these cases were in people who were fully or partly vaccinated, 274 (79%) of whom were symptomatic. Cycle threshold values were similarly low between people who were fully vaccinated (median 22·8) and people who were unvaccinated, not fully vaccinated, or whose vaccination status was unknown (median 21·5), indicating a high viral load even among people who were fully vaccinated.2 In the USA, a total of 10 262 COVID-19 cases were reported in vaccinated people by April 30, 2021, of whom 2725 (26·6%) were asymptomatic, 995 (9·7%) were hospitalised, and 160 (1·6%) died.3 In Germany, 55·4% of symptomatic COVID-19 cases in patients aged 60 years or older were in fully vaccinated individuals,4 and this proportion is increasing each week. In Münster, Germany, new cases of COVID-19 occurred in at least 85 (22%) of 380 people who were fully vaccinated or who had recovered from COVID-19 and who attended a nightclub.5 People who are vaccinated have a lower risk of severe disease but are still a relevant part of the pandemic. It is therefore wrong and dangerous to speak of a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Historically, both the USA and Germany have engendered negative experiences by stigmatising parts of the population for their skin colour or religion. I call on high-level officials and scientists to stop the inappropriate stigmatisation of unvaccinated people, who include our patients, colleagues, and other fellow citizens, and to put extra effort into bringing society together.
The parts in bold make some good points about is propaganda. The whole narrative about this is that it's only the unvaccinated who are to blame for the ongoing spread of COVID-19 illness. But the data contradicts this fantastical claim not based in reality.
It is merely another attempt to use fear and deception in order to pit people against each other. Clearly, if you look at the research publications over the past year, the vaccinated have as much of a viral load as the unvaccinated, which even Anthony Fauci admits to. If you look at hospitalization cases, such as in the UK, you will say that the majority of hospitalizations with Covid 19 positive results are among the vaccinated, not the unvaccinated.
Clearly those who created this message knew what they were doing and that it effectively to divide people. As the author mentions this has historically been used destigmatize parts of the population based on whatever discriminating factor, such as skin color or religion. Now it's simply being used to discriminate based on whether you received a medical procedure/product or not.
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