Letter to the editor: Disinformation putting us at risk

Following the science, the research, the math — according to Johns Hopkins’ Oct. 11 Covid Mortality Analyses, not one of over 240 countries had a covid mortality rate as low 0.05%, as claimed by letter-writer George Silowash (“I don’t trust this covid vaccine,” Oct. 9, TribLIVE). Laos and Singapore were lowest at 0.1%. The United States mortality rate was 1.6%, leading to 217 deaths per 100,000 people (covid and non-covid included).

The United States has the most reported confirmed cases at 45 million, followed by India at 34 million and Brazil at almost 22 million. The United States has the highest number of reported deaths from covid at 736,000.

Experimental vaccines? I believe America is infected and infested by too many Americans experimenting with their lives based on disinformation and lies, all stemming from Trumpitis. What were the “serious complications” of the writer’s friends? Death? Let me know when we get to vaccine deaths that match the covid deaths and serious complications therefrom.

In a report updated Sept. 16 by CBS-10 WBNS: “A comparison of the latest numbers from Johns Hopkins University and 2020 Census data shows approximately 1 in 500 Americans — about 0.2% of the U.S. population — have died due to covid-19 since the start of the pandemic.” But the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and scientists posit that covid deaths in the U.S. by last May might already have exceeded 900,000 due to undercount.

Do you want to be that 1 in 500?

Bruce Braden

Carmel, Ind.

The writer is a Mt. Pleasant native.