It's a safe bet that the readers of Townhall are not Democrats who need to be spoonfed and told what to believe, but self-starters who can look up a study.
Get your nose out of your ass, Jeff. You weren't so dumb before you started trying to prove everything Tom and I say is wrong. For a start, if you're investigating the reason for people dying, you're by definition working with a preselected sample, dead people, so sneers of the nature of "Some interesting sample pre-selection" are out of order and not even amusing; that's just a dumbass debating trick. All statistics have some level of preselection of the overall sample, for reasons of simple cost and convenience. Amateurs confuse sample pre-selection for cost and manageability with intra-sample post-selection for political or commercial bias. I gave a shattering demonstration of the latter on this forum in the case of the Zimmermann dissertation on which the 97% lie of the global warmies is based. If your hypothesis to be proved or disproved is furthermore the possibility that the COVID vaccine cause heart failures, then your sample is fixed to people who took the COVID shot and died suddenly without preconditions within x days. In most civilised societies autopsies are routinely performed on people who die suddenly without obvious cause. So the time limit of 20 days then determines how many autopsies can be looked at. Apparently there was a geographical limit as well. (Germany is a federation, just like the US. The province or Staat corresponds roughly to a US State, which is likely to have only one or a very few mortuaries capable of handling an autopsy in viral disease case, and it is likely to have a strong connection with a local teaching hospital and through that with the University Medical School.)
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> "Data on autopsies of persons, who received anti-SARS-
> CoV-2 vaccination (up to 20 days before their death), were
> obtained from the COVID autopsy and biomaterial registry
> Baden-Württemberg."
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> Is the biomaterial registry derived from tissue samples taken after an
> autopsy? I believe so, but I'm not sure.
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I don't know either but see above.; I think it is extremely likely.
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> "Among the 35 cases of the University of Heidelberg, autopsies
> revealed other causes of death (due to pre-existing illnesses) in 10
> patients (Supplementary Table 1). Hence, these were excluded from
> further analysis."
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> OK, so where did the data originate? Perhaps a European version of
> the US VAERS database mess?
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Tom's only been telling you lot for years now that the COVID bookkeeping is an obfuscating mess, and you lot have been mindlessly abusing him for it, even when I told you were very likely wrong, and I would hold you to account for it..
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So, now that you're finally admitting it, Jeff, when can we see your apology to Tom in print on this forum, and the individual personal apologies of rest of your gang street corner bullies?
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>Did someone pick through the data base
> and select 35 likely victims? Seem like it me, especially since they
> only found 5 genuine victims, one of which is problematic.
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Once more, Jeff, you have your nose so firmly up your ass, sniffing your obsession with proving Tom and me wrong, you don't even integrate what you yourself just wrote above in the paragraph starting "Data on autopsies of persons, who received anti-SARS-CoV-2 vaccination..." The people you're quoting didn't pick through any data. They just asked the pathologist or the compiler of statistics for the government reports for the raw data. As for demand for the raw data, above, have you never heard of privacy legislation?
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> "Cardiac autopsy findings consistent with (epi-)myocarditis were found
> in five cases of the remaining 25 bodies found unexpectedly dead at
> home within 20 days following SARS-CoV-2 vaccination."
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> Ok, they found something resembling myocarditis
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"Resembling?" Bullshit. More vague sneering in your limp effort to discredit the report.
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> in 5 dead patients
> that didn't have pre-existing conditions, out of an pre-selected
> population of 35 dead patients.
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Before your wits were dulled by your obsession, Jeff, you didn't fail simple mathematical tests. They weren't studying 35. You told us yourself only a few lines ago that 10 autopsied patients were excluded because of preconditions. This incidentally, is a point Tom made to you clowns more times than you deserved, and each time your lack of thanks for good advice was strikingly obvious, and your graceless abuse of him despicable. Just in case you want to argue, you can look up the number of times Tom told you to differentiate between people died *of* COVID from those who died *with* COVID. These medical investigators aren't as stupid as you lot: they excluded those who died of obvious natural causes.
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So now they were left with 25 cases and investigation showed five died of a possibly vaccine-related heart failure. That's 20% of those who died suddenly without prior conditions.
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>Seem like the conclusion is based on
> some rather sparse data.
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Crap. That's all the data available at the time. These people weren't sitting in an ivory tower being Monday-morning quarterbacks, they were studying a catastrophe in motion, probably with one eye on policy implications. Would you rather they waited until, say, another thousand people died of heart failures brought on by the vaccine?
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> Oddly, all those that died had received either no previous Covid
> vaccinations or only the first. Also oddly, there's no date for when
> the sample population was collected or when they died. From the lack
> of initial vaccinations, it would seem to be from early 2021, during a
> period everything related to Covid was a confused mess, especially
> record keeping.
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You can't condemn a study that was done to good effect against the odds by blaming those odds against the investigators on the investigators. That's a tautological argument, entirely circular, stupid beyond belief.
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> Meanwhile, 5.47 billion people have received at least one vaccination
> shot so far in about 19 months without dropping dead:
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https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations>
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> The 5 unexplained deaths are worth digging deeper into a possible
> problem, but not some manner of "stop everything" panic reaction. A
> much larger number of people probably drop dead from "unexplained
> causes" every day:
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These medical researchers saw you coming, Jeff, and all the other little control freaks who saw in COVID a golden opportunity to interfere in the lives of other people. They limited their study to "within 20 days of the COVID shot". So, the obvious question to you on hand of you objections is, does your "much larger number of people probably drop dead from "unexplained causes" every day" drop dead within 20 days
Pointless in this extremely particular situation.
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Andre Jute
Statistics is an art form, not a branch of mathematics as the knuckleheads will have us believe. The math is just the shorthand of Statistics.
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