Woah, the Double Vaxxed Isn't Fully Vaxxed campaign cost $1.3 million. And they explicitly state that people who are double dosed and previously infected don't see the point of a booster - which makes sense - and that this is a barrier to be overcome by the campaign. What a shocking waste of public resources for marginal benefit, or more likely, net harm.
$1.3 million is a drop in the ocean. Even GPs are thinking the campaign was a waste of money. I think people are waking up. In the article below you can see that $11 million had hardly any impact on the covid booster campaign but flu vaccination increased. People don’t seem to want to get covid boosters but they’re not vaccine hesitant if you go by the increase in flu vaccination. People seem happy to get vaccinated for flu but not covid.
Can’t find a link but I seem to remember reading somewhere that a total of $8 billion was allocated to the booster campaign which probably includes buying the stuff, paying GPs to administer and advertising. That’s about $330 per person on a population basis or about $750 for each person that actually got boosted if my sums are correct.
That’s probably where I first heard it. I looked it up and found it mentioned in a number of articles, it appears to be true but like you said, there is no breakdown of the funds anywhere I looked. There is a government audit report that I found but it was so long and boring I gave up reading it.
SAHMRI did some research that seemed highly suspect (knowing what we know) obviously citing the reverse, that jab status was highly protective (following the narrative type stuff)...
Is there anyway to get hold of their data set and deconstruct?
I ask this because their magical report isn't available to read (as far as I could find at time of press release), I'm not saying it wasn't done correctly (how could I? I can't get a hold of the report)...
Why did, SAMHRI who did the research, only put up the press release from SA Health, no link to research itself...
Hard to analyse the study and methods then...
It reads like a paid advertisement for pharma though... who paid for the study?
What is the age breakdown?
Over what period was this data gathered?
Is it all deaths from/with covid, including from the start of records (where no vaccine was available anyway)? Also when cases and deaths were also highly sus... (Eg dying with covid, instead of from covid?... Like a cancer death, that happened to test positive for covid, rather than dying from covid itself?)
Sorry if I missed it in your report above, and it may be freely available now, but I had a quick search onlune before commenting, and couldn't see it ... They may have subsequently released it, but definitely couldn't get a hold of it in February when it made news.
Gold! Thank you... I had wondered where this report was... I think Rebecca nailed it... Just looking at report myself....
So according to the table SAHMRI provided in their report (which covered two months only of 2022... Cherry picking?!)
Un vaxxed deaths = 16
Vac 1 or 2 doses =12
Vac 3+ doses = 138
Unknown (?) = 8
At best that looks like vax doesn't work at all, at worst the more doses you have the worse it is, given this was a two month period 1 Aug 2022 to 31 Oct 2022... and as substack stated, this is only given as a percentage of "reported" cases (in which case percentage of unvaxxed presents a higher percentage, because only 5007 cases in unvaxxed reported versus over 60,000 cases of reported vax covid... Essentially a case of how to lie with statistics in many ways, because for vaxxed or unvaxxed we don't really know how many cases were not reported it's an uncontrolled variable... I could use same stats to argue that there were less unvaxxed deaths in total, as total deaths indicates outcome, so as a proportion of total deaths unvaxxed equals only 10% of deaths vaxxed equals 86% of deaths, if vax prevents severe illness or death, figure should be the other way around one would think!?
The unknown vax status is confusing but I might suspect these people are vaxxed, but of
expired status? Usually you have to give your vax status....
Thanks for this link, very interesting... I wonder why was the period of the study so suspiciously short?!!!
"Data were restricted herein to cases of COVID-19 notified between 1 August 2022 and 31 October 2022"
That is a seriously short amount of time to measure a "trend", given they have access to a much longer data set...
(Also if we measured all cause mortality, what story would that tell?!)
Thank you very much for providing this, as I suspected, as I suspected it reads as a cherry picked, flawed and subjectively skewed report (to me at least).
I’ve only had a quick look at at it. On the surface I can’t see how they got the benefit claimed. Such high a risk reduction should be evident in the raw data. I just thought of a fun way to try and debunk it. If you extrapolate it out to the whole population you might get something ridiculous, like all the unvaxxed should be dead by now. Which might be true if you use health.gov.au data estimates which currently shows only 565 unvaccinated people in SA over 65 years of age. Which means that I am personally related to at least 1% of the unvaccinated population over 65 in SA (I have at least 6 cousins in SA that fit that description). 😀
Unvaxxed legend... Well done and to your six cousins!! My friends grandma in a nursing home (over 80 years old) didn't take jab either... Caught covid and survived, not sure if she took anything for it, but her immune system seemed to work well enough, she got through without problems (obviously I know this isn't the case for every one, but good on her for facing life on her own terms...)!
It's obviously impossible to say. I suspect the particular person who helped with that particular FOI is genuinely trying. They seem to have been brought on board more recently.
The issue with that one was that I had requested every report for the year. I had done so in order that I could do a manual count. They stated something about it being too burdensome, so I had to limit my request. In doing so, I was unable to get a full picture of the year (as you can see). Because of the person I was dealing with there, I let it go.
In other FOIs I've seen (not posted here) there's more to the epidemiological reports it would seem. Nevermind, we continue with other FOIs.. just received another today.
Massive amount of work, so many great people have been working away in the background for so long 🙏🙏🙏
Woah, the Double Vaxxed Isn't Fully Vaxxed campaign cost $1.3 million. And they explicitly state that people who are double dosed and previously infected don't see the point of a booster - which makes sense - and that this is a barrier to be overcome by the campaign. What a shocking waste of public resources for marginal benefit, or more likely, net harm.
$1.3 million is a drop in the ocean. Even GPs are thinking the campaign was a waste of money. I think people are waking up. In the article below you can see that $11 million had hardly any impact on the covid booster campaign but flu vaccination increased. People don’t seem to want to get covid boosters but they’re not vaccine hesitant if you go by the increase in flu vaccination. People seem happy to get vaccinated for flu but not covid.
Can’t find a link but I seem to remember reading somewhere that a total of $8 billion was allocated to the booster campaign which probably includes buying the stuff, paying GPs to administer and advertising. That’s about $330 per person on a population basis or about $750 for each person that actually got boosted if my sums are correct.
https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/professional/11-million-covid-booster-campaign-yet-to-have-an-i
That’s probably where I first heard it. I looked it up and found it mentioned in a number of articles, it appears to be true but like you said, there is no breakdown of the funds anywhere I looked. There is a government audit report that I found but it was so long and boring I gave up reading it.
Bravo, well done!
Well done ... Fantastic work!!!
SAHMRI did some research that seemed highly suspect (knowing what we know) obviously citing the reverse, that jab status was highly protective (following the narrative type stuff)...
Is there anyway to get hold of their data set and deconstruct?
I ask this because their magical report isn't available to read (as far as I could find at time of press release), I'm not saying it wasn't done correctly (how could I? I can't get a hold of the report)...
Why did, SAMHRI who did the research, only put up the press release from SA Health, no link to research itself...
Hard to analyse the study and methods then...
It reads like a paid advertisement for pharma though... who paid for the study?
What is the age breakdown?
Over what period was this data gathered?
Is it all deaths from/with covid, including from the start of records (where no vaccine was available anyway)? Also when cases and deaths were also highly sus... (Eg dying with covid, instead of from covid?... Like a cancer death, that happened to test positive for covid, rather than dying from covid itself?)
https://sahmri.org.au/news/research/latest-research-highlights-impact-of-covid-19-vaccination
Sorry if I missed it in your report above, and it may be freely available now, but I had a quick search onlune before commenting, and couldn't see it ... They may have subsequently released it, but definitely couldn't get a hold of it in February when it made news.
Rebekah @Dystopian Down Under managed to dig up some more information.
https://rebekahbarnett.substack.com/p/missing-sahmri-report-on-sa-health
Gold! Thank you... I had wondered where this report was... I think Rebecca nailed it... Just looking at report myself....
So according to the table SAHMRI provided in their report (which covered two months only of 2022... Cherry picking?!)
Un vaxxed deaths = 16
Vac 1 or 2 doses =12
Vac 3+ doses = 138
Unknown (?) = 8
At best that looks like vax doesn't work at all, at worst the more doses you have the worse it is, given this was a two month period 1 Aug 2022 to 31 Oct 2022... and as substack stated, this is only given as a percentage of "reported" cases (in which case percentage of unvaxxed presents a higher percentage, because only 5007 cases in unvaxxed reported versus over 60,000 cases of reported vax covid... Essentially a case of how to lie with statistics in many ways, because for vaxxed or unvaxxed we don't really know how many cases were not reported it's an uncontrolled variable... I could use same stats to argue that there were less unvaxxed deaths in total, as total deaths indicates outcome, so as a proportion of total deaths unvaxxed equals only 10% of deaths vaxxed equals 86% of deaths, if vax prevents severe illness or death, figure should be the other way around one would think!?
The unknown vax status is confusing but I might suspect these people are vaxxed, but of
expired status? Usually you have to give your vax status....
Thanks for this link, very interesting... I wonder why was the period of the study so suspiciously short?!!!
"Data were restricted herein to cases of COVID-19 notified between 1 August 2022 and 31 October 2022"
That is a seriously short amount of time to measure a "trend", given they have access to a much longer data set...
(Also if we measured all cause mortality, what story would that tell?!)
Thank you very much for providing this, as I suspected, as I suspected it reads as a cherry picked, flawed and subjectively skewed report (to me at least).
I’ve only had a quick look at at it. On the surface I can’t see how they got the benefit claimed. Such high a risk reduction should be evident in the raw data. I just thought of a fun way to try and debunk it. If you extrapolate it out to the whole population you might get something ridiculous, like all the unvaxxed should be dead by now. Which might be true if you use health.gov.au data estimates which currently shows only 565 unvaccinated people in SA over 65 years of age. Which means that I am personally related to at least 1% of the unvaccinated population over 65 in SA (I have at least 6 cousins in SA that fit that description). 😀
Unvaxxed legend... Well done and to your six cousins!! My friends grandma in a nursing home (over 80 years old) didn't take jab either... Caught covid and survived, not sure if she took anything for it, but her immune system seemed to work well enough, she got through without problems (obviously I know this isn't the case for every one, but good on her for facing life on her own terms...)!
It's obviously impossible to say. I suspect the particular person who helped with that particular FOI is genuinely trying. They seem to have been brought on board more recently.
The issue with that one was that I had requested every report for the year. I had done so in order that I could do a manual count. They stated something about it being too burdensome, so I had to limit my request. In doing so, I was unable to get a full picture of the year (as you can see). Because of the person I was dealing with there, I let it go.
In other FOIs I've seen (not posted here) there's more to the epidemiological reports it would seem. Nevermind, we continue with other FOIs.. just received another today.