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Feb 1, 2022Liked by Joel Smalley

I can't be the only unvaccinated NHS worker covering extra shifts due to absent, triple-vaxxed colleagues who is looking at these data and reflecting on the power of anecdotal information.

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I wanted to make this point too. I find it curious that the unvaccinated absentees decline since August 2021. I doubt this is new vaccinations at this point. So, does that mean the unvaccinated are actually taking fewer sick days than they ordinarily would do to cover for their sick vaccinated colleagues?

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This is a wild guess but I've seen many suggestions that Omicron is a virus that infects vaccinated people more. If the unvaccinated really are less susceptible and Omicron has displaced other variants such a Delta in the coronavirus ecosystem then fewer unvaccinated people might be getting exposed to viruses that can make them sick.

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Joel this is a great graph. I am just wondering what it would look like if the Y-axis is converted to a rate per 10k? I imagine the first objection from a Covidian to your graph and interpretation would be that the counter trend in injected vs un-injected is simply because of increasing numbers of injected staff. In other words, what you see is simply an effect of the decreasing pool of un-injected staff and the increasing pool of injected staff. Just a thought!

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I have the Same question. I think it should be answered.

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Feb 2, 2022·edited Feb 2, 2022Author

No. I've put the stats up now. The variation comes from the vaccinated. It is clear. And absences are rising since vaccination. Smoking gun. And as always, I do NOT need to set myself a high bar. I am not the one mandating vaccination. It is on the NHS Trusts, the public health authorities and MPs to surpass the highest bar. They don't even come close.

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The stats don't show this though, as you don't have the key piece of data (i.e. total numbers of vaccinated / non-vaccinated staff). You've simply put a nonsensical, condescending line about being "statistically minded" and made up a hypothesis that we (for some reason) must treat as gospel. If approx 90% of staff are vaccinated (as per the national average in the last couple of months), then your whole theory goes out of the window... which is probably why you've not done it.

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As the % of vaxxed staff rises so would their absence rate. It's hard to make any conclusions from this data. Winter illness was a lot higher in 20/21 than 21/22, but that is not reflected in higher staff absence. As we know, staff absence for Covid has little correlation to actual illness. What we need to know is the relativity of the increase in staff absence to testing. Does the rise in absence reflect the rise in testing that occurred pre Xmas 21? If not, then it proves the jabs offer no protection against catching Covid and, in fact, increase the chances of catching it. "But it stops severe illness". Then that would be reflected in a rise in absence for the unvaxxed, wouldn't it? Just shows how easy it is to manipulate data and produce a theory.

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Hey Joel,

I love your stuff, thank you for all you are doing! Your data and presentations are incredible.

I am part of a group of women in Rhode Island who are fighting the mandates. I am looking for help, pointers, advice on how to find/dig/compile and present our local data. Any advice would be great!

Thx again!

Shannon

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Just skip to the last chart:

https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/01/28/covid-19-jabs-projected-cause-62-mil-cardiovascular-deaths-2022/

Just like you did with all-cause mortality , perhaps you can see if heart attack spikes follow vaccine rollouts.

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What percentage of the staff was unvaccinated?

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My sense forward is to present a better left . Because the vast majority of censored voices are actually left , mostly . Snd not taking anything from those that consider themselves right . The point is that left radicalism has played a significant part in the use of power and likely may been actively stimulated by powers in the world leading up to this time and managed by big tech . ( notice Trump gifts of division and anger empowering the radical left )

And so I feel that there is an opportunity here that is not being used . These left voices are being labelled right , because they are simply right of the far radical left . And this is how the common person is being radicalized to support left extremism . ( cancel culture , accusation without fair process ). Instead I think these left voices should rise and create a “better left “ movement . A better left movement that could awaken the radicalized left to support more fair compassionate tolerant society

So I have begun to use

Me3

( me, you, us). So as to use the same tactic of collective recognition and bring attention to the hypocrisy of the radical left . Please jessica either tell why this is a bad approach it share it widely to those that have the power to make it have traction

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The idiots will keep pushing the same senseless mandates.

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They'll just say it's because most NHS are vaccinated, therefore most absences will be in the unvaccinated.

https://nakedemperor.substack.com/

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I'm not sure this chart demonstrates your claim. Can you replot figure 1, with the numbers of vaccinated vs. unvaccinated absences relative to the total absences (i.e. at the end of the chart total absences for the vaccinated cohort should be higher since there are more of them.)

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Don't forget that if you are jabbed and sick with whatever, you got to isolate for shorter time than normal people.

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Also if they still count the 14 days after jab "unvaxd" despite a higher likelihood of getting sick with *something*, *because of* the jab, it's harder to get a clear picture

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