Since the Covid vaccines have shown such limited efficacy as regards reducing infection and transmission, some stick was required with which to beat the unvaccinated, to say nothing of a premise to justify the entire project of coerced mass vaccination. Increasingly, this cudgel and justification has been found in the notion that the unvaccinated are placing a disproportionate strain on the health system. Country after country rolled out the notion of a “pandemic of the unvaccinated”, and politicians and their media husks were happy to propagate a guilt-leaden narrative that the unvaccinated, with their blinkered and selfish refusal to roll up their sleeves for the Science, were “taking up” hospital beds, and pushing frontline heroes – whichever of them hadn't been unceremoniously fired themselves for refusing the Science, that is – to the edge of their benevolent tolerance. Are the figures underlying these claims accurate, or have they been massaged to prop up the totterin