You continue to post falsehoods as if they are known facts. Just a few recent examples:
I have little doubt that rural, conservative leaning areas had a higher percentage wise rate of severe illness and death than more suburban areas with higher vaccination rates.
Rural areas with higher rates of severe illness or death cannot be compared to more suburban areas for several reasons without looking into a number of possible factors. Only one of them is different rates of vaccination among those populations. The quantity and quality of present & past medical care, both in or out of hospitals, are quite different. Unless you account for such varied differences, any conclusions are meaningless. You might as well be comparing apples to oranges. Some successful comparisons have been done, by others who actually made efforts to account for these differences. Why don't you look some of them up?
Although it now is obvious that these shots do not prevent contracting covid or the transmission of covid the current variants, they clearly significantly reduce the risk of severe illness or death from covid.
Again, such conclusions require good data. Do you have any? It is much easier to collect clinical data on severe illness (requiring hospitalization) or deaths than it is to collect data on rates of infection. If you had looked up some of this data (it does exist), you'd find that your conclusions are unwarranted and over simplified – perhaps over confident.
It is regrettable that there was so much misinformation out there by people suggesting that covid was "the flu" or a "sniffle", which led many dangerously vulnerable people to choose not to get the shot. I've argued, to little avail, with these people on many comment boards.
The misinformation was more than regrettable. It was deliberate and widely repeated falsehoods, meant to inflame the uninformed public who were regrettably inclined to let Faux News (and others) be their only source of news. These falsehoods have been intentionally repeated for years. I find your reaction to this, saying it's "regrettable", is no better than turning a blind eye to those who shout fire in a crowded theater.
The latest trend is to blame the death of every single person who experiences a sudden death, of most any type, on the covid shots. It's as if there were never sudden cardiac deaths or strokes before the covid shots. Of course, these days, we have the media doing a story on every young athlete or entertainer who is found dead at home or in their hotel room, usually because acute alcohol and/or opiod overdose. But, no, it couldn't be those things that caused the death, it had to have been the "clot shot". Even when a 60 year old has a fatal heart attack, it is automatically assumed that it was because of the shot.
That 'latest trend' is only a trend among the willfully misinformed. Such adverse events have been intensely studied by the medical world. They concluded that it is a possible risk, but it is so rare that there was no reason to remove approval of the vaccines.
Now, since myocarditis is a known possible adverse reaction to the mRNA shots, mostly in young males, I do think sudden deaths in such individuals should be investigated to see if there is any evidence that the shots may have played a role. Of course, these deaths can be caused by other causes, such as undiagnosed hypertrophic cardiomyopathy or chronic essential hypertension.
The same goes for myocarditis. It is a known but very rare adverse event. It was carefully considered before it was ruled out as a reason to stop using the vaccines.
The continued mention of these rare adverse events is evidence that you and others like you are ignorant of the careful effort that goes into planning and evaluating clinical trials for medications like vaccines. You'd rather use such information as false reasons why the vaccines are not safe. That couldn't be further from the truth.
