{"id":54871,"date":"2021-11-20T19:18:27","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T23:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54871"},"modified":"2021-11-20T19:20:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T23:20:14","slug":"is-this-really-a-pandemic-of-the-unvaccinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54871","title":{"rendered":"Is this really a pandemic of the unvaccinated?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Kevin Baldeosingh<br \/>\nNovember 20, 2021 &#8211; <A HREF=\"https:\/\/trinidadexpress.com\/opinion\/letters\/is-this-really-a-pandemic-of-the-unvaccinated\/article_59971464-499b-11ec-8483-07d73b70886e.html\">trinidadexpress.com<\/A><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54871\"><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/kevin-baldeosingh.jpg' width='150' height='100' border='0' class='alignleft' alt='Kevin Baldeosingh' \/><\/a>In virtually every statement issued by the Ministry of Health (MoH), the public is assured that this is a \u201cpandemic of the unvaccinated\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>My question is, how do they know?<\/p>\n<p>If the MoH has been doing contact tracing that proves unjabbed people are the ones infecting others, they haven\u2019t said so.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nInstead, it seems that, because the majority of Covid fatalities are among the unvaccinated (or \u201cnot fully vaccinated\u201d \u2014the MoH presser team seems unsure which), the inference is that the unjabbed are also the spreaders.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, this does not necessarily follow, since the Covid shots are now known to reduce deaths but not prevent infections or transmission.<br \/>\n<em><A HREF=\"https:\/\/trinidadexpress.com\/opinion\/letters\/is-this-really-a-pandemic-of-the-unvaccinated\/article_59971464-499b-11ec-8483-07d73b70886e.html\">Full Article : trinidadexpress.com<\/A><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kevin Baldeosingh November 20, 2021 &#8211; trinidadexpress.com In virtually every statement issued by the Ministry of Health (MoH), the public is assured that this is a \u201cpandemic of the unvaccinated\u201d. My question is, how do they know? If the MoH has been doing contact tracing that proves unjabbed people are the ones infecting others, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54871\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is this really a pandemic of the unvaccinated?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1524,1,33],"tags":[1515,1596],"class_list":["post-54871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19","category-general-tt","category-health","tag-kevin-baldeosingh","tag-moh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54873,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54871\/revisions\/54873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}