A few friends asked me why there were no Singapore media reports on yesterday’s (9 Apr) Covid-19 numbers? (the MOH website had the usual daily update yesterday evening)
Since 96% of the eligible population are fully vaccinated (9 Apr) – how many eligible unvaccinated (excluding the eligible partially vaccinated) are there now?
Let’s try to derive an estimate
92% – 4969220 fully vaccinated in the total population (4 Apr) divided by 92% = 5,401,326 in the total population
https://www.moh.gov.sg/covid-19/vaccination/statistics
less 178,440 children age 0 to 4 who are not eligible for vaccination = 5,222,886 eligible population
4% (4% x 5,222,886) of non-fully vaccinated eligible population = 208,915
less 54,013 (1% partially vaccinated x 5,401,326) = 154,902
less 96,000 non-fully vaccinated children age 5 to 11 (68% fully vaccinated out of 300,000+) = 58,902 non-fully vaccinated adults
Of these 58,902 non-fully vaccinated adults – how many are
really unvaccinated by choice – and not because they are ineligible due to medical conditions (only 300 out of a population of 5.45m, have met the MOH’s very strict exemption criteria, but how many do not?)?
And also, how many may have had such serious side effects (16,394 adverse events reported (891 serious)) as of 28 Feb), after their 1st dose or last dose, that they do not wish to have another dose?
Also, how many may have been previously infected and thus exempted from vaccination for 180 days, but were not recorded in the MOH database?
So, is it not unreasonable, irrational, inequitable and unfair, to use this “enlarged” definition of “non-fully vaccinated” to the “truly unvaccinated by choice”, who are being blamed and discriminated against vide various vaccination differentiation measures, such as
being unable to go to work, or to be able to seek employment?
In this connection, the analogy may in a sense be – I blame you (unvaccinated workers by choice) for the problem, so I discriminate against you, but I include other non-fully vaccinated (my own enlarged definition) to increase the number to argue my case!
Also, instead of just making arguments in the narrative (without numbers) – why can’t we disclose the actual numbers for the categories of the “non-fully vaccinated”, so that we know exactly how many people are unvaccinated by choice, and workers unvaccinated by choice?
The primary reason given for the discriminatory measures on employment, imposed on the unvax workers by choice, is to protect our healthcare system from being overwhelmed, particularly for ICU (critically ill) (only 18 including the non-critically ill in ICU on 9 Apr), and to protect the unvax from dying (only 2 deaths on 9 Apr)
More than 95% of the deaths are age 60 & over with underlying conditions
So, are most of the deaths due primarily to their advanced age & underlying conditions, rather than their vaccination (vax or unvax) status?
In this connection, are the elderly with serious medical conditions also probably, more likely to be unable to be, or reluctant to be vaccinated, or further vaccinated?
Statistics on the breakdown of the daily deaths into fully vaccinated, partially vaccinated and unvaccinated started to disappear in the last week of October
Why did we stop giving the breakdown of the vax, partially vax and unvax for deaths?
In this connection, perhaps we should heed the MOH’s statement “We wish to remind members of public that transparency and accuracy of information undergirds public confidence in a pandemic crisis”?
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