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      eventually demanded compliance. Many                    50 to 59 years:       99.871% survival rate

      people were threatened with the loss of their
                                                              60 to 69 years:       99.499% survival rate
      livelihoods for failure to be vaccinated, and

      many did.                                                      Those survival rates hardly scream for
                                                              mass vaccination. So why did so many people
             A huge percentage of the U.S.
                                                              agree to being locked in their homes, having
      population became convinced that their lives
                                                              their businesses shut down, and line up for
      were in serious danger. The proof: According
                                                              the jab? Fear. It causes one to wonder why we
      to The Hill, a poll taken in August of 2021
                                                              needed to be frightened so badly.
      demonstrated that the public had a serious
      misunderstanding of the risk of death from                     Let’s look again at it from the
      COVID in young people. The poll showed                  perspective of death rates. News media

      that average Americans were under the                   continually blared the death toll… again,

      impression that people under the age of 44              inciting fear. But a closer look at the statistics
      made up about 30% of deaths. The true figure            reveals some disturbing things. There is ample
      was less than 3%. The same poll showed that             evidence to suggest that the majority of those

      58% of respondents between the ages of 18               reported as COVID deaths fell into three

      and 24 also said they feared “significant health        primary categories:
      consequences” were they to get infected. In
                                                              1. People who died of other causes, but had
      truth, people in this age group accounted for a
                                                              recently tested positive for COVID
      mere 0.1% of COVID deaths.
                                                              2. People who were killed because of
             One has to wonder how this impression
                                                              treatments that were later found to be lethal
      was generated… until we consider the

      aforementioned Presidential quotes.                     3. People who were close to death either
                                                              because of extreme old age or serious health
             Here are the real numbers concerning
                                                              conditions.
      survival rates before the vaccine was
      dispensed (remember, all government-issued                     The numbers were likely inflated

      information focused on death rates instead):            because there were financial incentives that
                                                              were offered to hospitals for their numbers
      Birth to 19 years:   99.9997% survival rate
                                                              of COVID patients, and families of deceased

      20 to 29 years:       99.997% survival rate             patients who were reported as having died of
                                                              the virus.
      30 to 39 years:       99.989% survival rate
                                                                      A population that was increasingly
      40 to 49 years:       99.965% survival rate




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