[ceejayoz]

> Just be aware: you're arguing with a scientist who worked for decades on medical biology...

On the internet, no one knows you're a dog.

(I'm also glad the CDC employs more than just biologists, as statistics seems to be a fault here more than biology.)

> I wasn't talking in proportions, I meant absolutely.

Cool, so entirely pointless.

This popped into my inbox today: average daily cases, per-capita, for Seattle and NYC. Another clear distinction between the two populations. https://imgur.com/a/mjVxIhB

You can dismiss it as faked or rigged or manipulated again, but there's plenty of information out there to validate this sort of thing, and you don't have to take the US's word for it; other countries publish the same sort of information.

[dekhn]

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.11.22269045v... Table S3 has what you want, it's much closer to useful than any CDC press release with the major caveats that it was done in a Kaiser population (which could be non-representative) and is very new and totally unvetted.

Ultimately I think you're not completely incorrect and I agree with teh directionality of what you're saying, but taken generally, the reality is that omicron does a much better job of infecting people (who were previously infected and have natural immunity, or who were vaccinated) and so much of this entire vaccine exercise has shown that we either need to move quickly/plan for regular 4-month updates (can you imagine trying to get everybody in the world to vaccinate every 4 months?) or maybe acknowledge that vaccination isn't the solution it was pitched as.