We’ve been told that the vaccine is the safest way to avoid COVID-19 and that breakthrough cases, in which one who is vaccinated but still catches the disease, are very rare.
This doesn’t appear to be true.
Recently 32 cases of COVID-19 were reported at the Port Orchard Veterans Home.
Of these 24 cases were contracted by residents of the home, 97 percent of whom have been vaccinated (Peninsula Daily News, Aug. 15.)
Israel has better than an 80 percent vaccination rate among adults yet severe illness since the start of August amounts to 400 infections with 240 of those being vaccinated individuals (Wall Street Journal, Aug. 13)
In April CNN reported the vaccination rate in Gibraltar to be approaching 100 percent.
Now the CDC recommends avoiding travel to Gibraltar due to very high COVID levels which are up, according to an analysis done by Financial Times (July 29), over 2500 percent.
There are other sources besides these should one be interested in looking at it for themselves.
It seems clear then that the vaccine is not working as some would have you believe.
Yet mandates are being handed down and people are being threatened with termination from their jobs with no explanation given other than that it’s science along with an admonishment not to question those in charge.
What about those who have had the disease and are now immune?
No matter, they still need to get vaccinated or face the same consequences as any other unvaccinated person.
Jeffrey Schreck
Port Angeles