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In the movie Moneyball, Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane queries his team of scouts when discussing a prospective player, “If he's a good hitter, why doesn't he hit good?” The scouts all have solid explanations, at least in their minds, of why a prospect might be a good hitter, from the sound of the crack of the bat when they hit the ball to the player’s good looks.

These explain why the player should be a good hitter, but what if the numbers, from batting average to on-base percentage, tell a different story? The question Billy poses is obvious in its simplicity, good hitters should hit good. And if they don’t, then perhaps they are not really good hitters.

What if we ask the same question about COVID vaccines, rephrased as “If the vaccines work, why aren’t they working?”

> In the movie Moneyball, Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane queries his team of scouts when discussing a prospective player, “If he's a good hitter, why doesn't he hit good?” The scouts all have solid explanations, at least in their minds, of why a prospect might be a good hitter, from the sound of the crack of the bat when they hit the ball to the player’s good looks. > These explain why the player should be a good hitter, but what if the numbers, from batting average to on-base percentage, tell a different story? The question Billy poses is obvious in its simplicity, good hitters should hit good. And if they don’t, then perhaps they are not really good hitters. > What if we ask the same question about COVID vaccines, rephrased as “If the vaccines work, why aren’t they working?”

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If by "work" you mean stop the spread of the disease, it's because that's not what they're supposed to do. And I'm not saying that as a conspiracy theorist, that's not their official purpose. Officially they're only supposed to reduce the severity of the symptoms.

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Officially they're only supposed to reduce the severity of the symptoms.

Understood. Even using that as the metric, they're not working.

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I heard more people have died after the vaccine than have died ever.

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I'm pretty sure that's not true yet. There are more people alive now than there have ever been at any one point in history, and they're all going to die within a century or so, so it will be true in some sense a few decades from now.

I do expect the "vaccines" to cause more problems than they solve though.

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Usa excess deaths are 20% higher this year than last year. Why?

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Probably all the suicide actually.

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That also means it's not a vaccine.

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For the honest and original definition, yes.