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For the week ending July 16, the number of unvaccinated people admitted to NSW hospitals or ICUs with a Covid diagnosis in the previous 14 days was exactly zero – zilch, nada.
Yet according to the same report by NSW Health: “The minority of the overall population who have not been vaccinated are significantly overrepresented among patients in hospitals and ICUs with Covid-19”.
Huh?
One of the most prominent dissenters from the dominant official narrative on vaccines is tennis superstar Novak Djokovic.
Based on his public stance against vaccination, but with no desire to convert the unconverted, he was deported and prevented from defending his Australian Open title in January.
Rather than appeal Djokovic’s court victory against his visa being revoked, the minister used his discretionary powers – meant to be exercised against the likes of suspected terrorists – to avoid legal accountability.
Now Djokovic has been stopped from playing in the US Open.
The US is among a shrinking minority of countries to still bar the entry of unvaccinated travellers.
The policy always lacked ethical justification because it violates the core principles of informed consent and ‘My Body, My Choice’.
Contrary to the belief common in mid-2021, by now even the medical justification has crumbled.
Last year, President Joe Biden talked about the pandemic of the unvaccinated as he tried to encourage vaccine take-up by demonising the vaccine hesitant.
Anthony Fauci, Biden’s chief medical adviser who is revered by some but reviled by others, claimed last year that vaccination helped to protect the community because “by preventing the spread of the virus… you become a dead end to the virus”.
Recently both Dr Fauci and Biden, double vaccinated and double boosted, caught Covid.
On July 20, Fauci finally admitted that “vaccines – because of the high degree of transmissibility of this virus – don’t protect overly well, as it were, against infection”.
Hard data – not models, not claims and projections by vaccine manufacturers – from NSW Health suggest the Covid trajectory has brought us to the point where perhaps we should acknowledge we are in the midst of a pandemic of the triple vaccinated.
NSW publishes weekly reports that divide Covid-19 hospital admissions and ICU occupancy by vaccination status.
I have collated the figures for the eight weeks from May 22 to July 16 for all Covid hospital admissions and ICU bed occupancy.
I then plotted the cumulative eight-week totals as vertical columns. The dominance of the triple vaccinated in the charts is visually stunning.
The triple vaccinated column is the one that towers high in both charts.
Every single one of the other columns of the vaccinated cohorts, including the double boosted like Biden and Fauci, is also higher than the unvaccinated.
By contrast, among Covid-19 patients whose vaccination status is known, the unvaccinated accounted for only 0.2 per cent of hospital admissions and 1.5 percent of ICU beds over the past eight weeks.
Significantly overrepresented? Tell ‘em they’re dreaming.
Do the Premier, Health Minister and other senior officials not have the intellectual curiosity to channel Pauline Hanson and ask: “Please explain”?
Meanwhile, “no-vax” Djokovic stands vindicated as a rare celebrity with the courage of his convictions.
He would rather lower his chances of being crowned tennis GOAT with a record number of majors titles, than compromise on his principles of bodily integrity, individual autonomy and informed consent.
Like the Australian Open, the US Open too will be the poorer without him.
Ramesh Thakur is Emeritus Professor at the Crawford School, The Australian National University and a former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations.
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