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Pandemic of the Unvaccinated?

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Are we, in fact, in a pandemic of the unvaccinated?  Let's ask another question: Does a tree falling in the woods make any sound if no one hears it? While this is sometimes treated as an unanswerable question, the answer is fairly straightforward: No. Sound is heard. It must enter the auditory perception of a hearer to be sound. It is scientifically valid to say that the disturbances or vibrations that would have been sound to a hearer still occur, because this is predictive, but sound itself as a distinct signal requires a listener. Are we listening? Are we actually listening for the sort of signal that would be required for us to know? The following essay will pursue that question to address the veracity of the idea that we are presently in a pandemic of the unvaccinated, and whether we can actually support such an assertion. For one thing, it should strike any critical thinker as worthy of investigation that in other places with high vaccination rates and the same apparent var