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MartianManchild posted...

Its ok, buddy. I know you actually did go look to prove me wrong but couldnt find anything. Maybe next time

I mean, if you want to believe that, you could always go track down the data yourself to show that there's no correlation between vaccine policies and public health metrics, but that would involve finding more than a single data point, so we both know you won't.

As it happens, after posting that, I did do a quick bit of searching to see if I could find a convenient list of countries' vaccine requirements for entry (municipal vaccine mandates are tricky to gather concrete data on, given how inconsistently many of them are enforced, how much they vary from region to region, and how much travel from neighbouring regions with different rules can affect case rates independent of their rules) to cross-reference against per capita case trends, but the closest thing I found didn't allow me to copy+paste the information, so that would have been far more work than was worthwhile to satisfy my curiosity. Ultimately, I'd just be confirming common sense: If you reduce the extent to which people without immunity can interact with their communities, infection rates will go down. It's significant deviations from that expected trend that are worth investigating; there's little sense investing any real effort into confirming that it's happening (especially with Omicron making it so almost nobody has immunity).