COVID-19 restrictions not justified by statistics

Aug 06, 2021 Letters

Dear Editor,

Kaieteur News – I can only look on in alarm at the measures being taken to force our citizens to take the various COVID-19 vaccines.
Ministers like to quote statistics but one we have not heard is the number of persons under 30, out of the 550, who have died from the virus in Guyana. In their absence, let us examine the rates in the USA. Of the total 601,124 deaths, 572,433 were over 50, 28,691 were for those aged 0-49 and under 39 were 9,881. Under 30 there were only 2,807. So out of some 35M total COVID-19 cases the chances of dying for those under 39 was two tenths of a percent. And importantly this does not include cases where people contracted the virus but had no symptoms and so did not take a test.
Another statistic the minister should provide is the percentage by age groups that have been vaccinated. If it is the case that the vast majority is over 40, then surely mass hospitalisations and deaths are now not likely.
So why then in Guyana are public sector and private sector employers forcing people out of work, treating them like lepers and taking bread out of their mouths? There is a cruelty to these restrictions that statistically cannot be justified.

Yours sincerely,
Lynn Nicholas