There is a headline on news stories saying: “The Omicron XBB.1.5 variant of COVID-19 is more likely to infect individuals who have been vaccinated, according to New York City health officials.” The NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene wrote on Twitter on Jan. 13: “Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 now accounts for 73 percent of all sequenced COVID-19 cases in NYC. XBB.1.5 is the most transmissible form of COVID-19 that we know of to date and may be more likely to infect people who have been vaccinated or already had COVID-19.” Despite this, the department urged New Yorkers to get vaccinated and receive the updated COVID-19 booster shot, stating that doing so “is still the best way to protect yourself from hospitalization and death from COVID-19, including from these new variants.” It is written in a way that suggests there is increased susceptibility to infection caused by prior vaccination. Is that correct?

That is not truly correct, but a distortion in thinking aided by looking in a cursory way at the statistics. This is another example of falsely interpreting what happens to the majority, making it seem like a bigger problem, almost like it is attracting misfortune. The simple fact of the matter is, at this juncture, many more people have been vaccinated and/or add Covid-19 before, than those who have not. Sold for the number of people reporting illness, it is far more likely they will have a history of illness themselves or vaccination, with or without booster shots. One must look very carefully and with expertise at the fine points in the definition and segregation of the groupings here. So this information and the way it was presented creates a false perception supporting a kind of conspiracy theory. The interlopers encourage such things because they cannot help themselves. They have to muddy every issue and even things they want to see happen they will work against, to create greater turmoil, confusion, and conflict. It is just how they do things. And the humans are the ones they work through to implement their bad ideas, and that affects every aspect of life, as everything is fair game for the interlopers in their way of seeing things, and they will exploit every opportunity they can use to make life worse for human beings.