Haiti and the Dominican Republic are neighboring nations on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean.
Haiti is on the west end of the island and the Dominican Republic stretches to the east.
Hispaniola lies just southeast of Cuba and just west of Puerto Rico in the Caribbean Sea.
Although Haiti and the Dominican Republic share the same island, the quality of life of their citizens are vastly different.
GDP per capita is about 6x higher in the DR as it is in Haiti as are average incomes.
Life expectancies are about ten years longer in the DR as they are in Haiti.
Population density in Haiti is almost double what it is in the DR.
There are twice as many hospital beds and six times as many doctors in the DR per capita as there are in Haiti.
Looking at the background data you would think that Haiti would be extremely vulnerable when confronted with a pandemic brought about by a virus such as Covid-19.
You might conclude that another natural disaster awaited Haiti when you consider that only 1% of the population has been vaccinated compared to 55% in the DR.
How has it worked out between the two countries?
The DR has had about 25 times the number of confirmed cases per capita that Haiti has had since the pandemic began.
Granted, this number is undoubtedly misleading because of Haiti's scant health resources which clearly is resulting in many undiagnosed or missed cases that are not recorded.
In that case, deaths from Covid is a better measure and should be more reliable.
However, deaths from Covid in the DR are reported to be about 6 times higher per capita than they have been in Haiti since the beginning of the pandemic.
How is it that Haiti, in which almost no one is vaccinated, in a country with scant health resources, has only a fraction of the Covid cases and deaths as neighboring Dominican Republic?
Is this not curious?
It is almost as if no one had ever created a test for Covid or a narrative around it that anyone would have noticed.
Have we ever seen any pandemic like this in the history of mankind?
Have we ever seen a vaccine that promised more and delivered less when you look at the actual data?
If you doubt that consider the Covid situation on the neighboring island of Puerto Rico right now.
87% of everyone age 5 and older in Puerto Rico are fully vaccinated. This is much higher than the vaccine rate in the DR.
Right now Puerto Rico has the highest number of reported cases per capita of any U.S. state or territory.
Puerto Rico has over 40 times the number of cases now as it did at this time last year.
Confirmed cases in Puerto Rico are also nine times higher than the DR right now.
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| New Reported Covid Cases in Puerto Rico-7-day average Source: The New York Times Covid Tracker |
Notice that Puerto Rico had relatively few Covid cases until after the vaccines were introduced in early 2021.
Hospital admissions this year are over 3x what they were at this time last year for all ages.
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| Source: The New York Times Covid Tracker |
For the most vulnerable age 70+ age group (90%+ fully vaccinated), hospital admissions in Puerto Rico are 4x what they were last year.
Deaths were averaging .3 per week last year. Puerto Rico has been averaging about 6 deaths a week this year---a 20-fold increase.
It is all quite curious.
Yet almost no questions are asked.
And most assuredly no answers are ever given as to how this is possible based on the public health narrative that keeps being repeated over and over again irrespective of facts like these that are right in front of us but are conveniently ignored.
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