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A mainstream media report (linked below) states that 79,000 people in Australia have suffered an adverse reaction to a COVID shot. Obviously, those adverse reactions are different in their severity and, while some, and possibly most of them, are relatively mild, some are bound to be severe and, statistically speaking, some have almost certainly resulted in death.

At this point in time I would like to avoid the discussion of drawbacks and benefits of these vaccines. I have dedicated some space to that subject already - some of that can be found at the links - and I am certainly not done with the subject. But here I would like to merely present a statistical context. Hopefully, upon seeing it you will agree with me that whatever your stance on the overall situation, the figure in the title is neither insignificant, nor trivial.

Australia is a country of almost 26 million people. So far, according to [Worldometer](https://www.worldometers.info/), Australia experienced 462,934 COVID cases and 2,259 COVID deaths. While currently the case count is high - likely, due to the highly infective Omicron variant - the serious or critical cases are currently a mere 0.1% of the case total, or under 200 people. Of the people who have died thus far, a large percentage are people of advanced age - for example, if memory serves, at one point a third of all Australian COVID fatalities were women over 90 years of age. Assuming the same death rate holds and assuming the case count is accurate and there have been no uncounted cases - all highly pessimistic assumptions - Australia can expect about 127,000 people, or roughly 0.5% of its population. to die of COVID when all is said and done.

Meanwhile 79,000 healthy Asutralians - that we know of, or that were officially acknowledged as such - have been damaged by vaccines aimed at keeping them safe from COVID. That is 0.3% of all Australians, or 0.35% of Australians eligible for the jab, or 0.4% of those who did receive it. In short, one out of 250 Australians who received a COVID vaccine has been damaged by it.

As usual - don't take my word for anything, do your own research, draw your own conclusions.

Over and out.

**References**

[Matty John suffered pericarditis after Pfizer vaccine, government offering compensation to some (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYFUHQJXjdo)
*7 News Australia*, 28 December 2021

[REPORT: 79,000 AUSTRALIANS HAVE SUFFERED ADVERSE REACTIONS TO THE VACCINE FORCING THE GOVERNMENT TO...](https://www.bitchute.com/video/tU2zkf379JUx/)
*Liberum Arbitrium*, 2 January 2022

[Australia (wiki)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia)

[Australia: COVID-19 data](https://archive.ph/wip/xQtLA)
*Worldometer*, archived 2 January 2022

[Number of COVID-19 deaths in Australia as at December 9, 2021, by age and gender](https://archive.ph/RGsT0)
*Statista*

[US COVID vaccines: their power fleeting, their usefulness limited](https://peakd.com/hive-109255/@borepstein/us-covid-vaccines-their-power-fleeting-their-usefulness-limited-hive-109255)
@borepstein, 7 November 2021

[COVID-19 vaccination in Australia (wiki)](https://archive.ph/IllEf)
Archived 3 January 2022

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