People who say "You should get vaccinated because you're jeopardizing me if you don't!" can go fuck themselves. GOOD. The fewer people like you there are on this earth, the better.
That being said, it is a simple epidemiological fact that the more people get vaccinated, the closer you get to halting the virus, even if the vaccine is only 90% effective. It's just basic math. The more people get vaccinated, the fewer vectors there are for the virus to propagate until eventually it gets cornered and dies off. And the longer it's allowed to keep propagating, the more time/reproductive cycles it has to mutate, possibly to something that's resistant to that vaccine. So the sooner it's halted, the better.
Where the vaccine zealots lose people is when they make it about themselves personally. If you're vaccinated personally you're probably (90%) fine even if you do come into contact with someone who's infected. The real issue is the epidemic as a whole, not any one individual. But of course people have to make everything about themselves so here we are.
A global pandemic from a newly crossed-over virus is like a partially completed jigsaw puzzle. There are so many unknowns, so many factors still to be understood. Never mind the factors we don't even know about yet. It's a deep, deep rabbit hole.
It can help to step back and look at the big picture: In Canada the number of serious "adverse events" from getting the vaccine stands at 0.005%, or 1 in 20,000. Compare that to the overall chance of dying from getting the virus: 1 in 50.
In the public health unit where I live, which is a heavy retirement area, there have been 1847 cases and 6 deaths since march 2020. This is a 0.3% chance of death, if you catch the virus. Among an elderly/retirement community. Among heathy young people, the chance of death is way lower.
At least 30% of the general population, maybe way more, have an innate immunity from previous coronaviruses and won't even catch it.
That's your experience. I have been in two cities in the last six months that have been shipping covid victims out because their hospitals are full. And I know people who have had their "normal" surgical procedures cancelled, bumped by an outbreak at the hospital or the number of covid victims already taking up beds.
Read the "Closed Cases" box in the link below. And note the "Daily New Cases" graph. There's another wave starting:
People who say "You should get vaccinated because you're jeopardizing me if you don't!" can go fuck themselves. GOOD. The fewer people like you there are on this earth, the better.
That being said, it is a simple epidemiological fact that the more people get vaccinated, the closer you get to halting the virus, even if the vaccine is only 90% effective. It's just basic math. The more people get vaccinated, the fewer vectors there are for the virus to propagate until eventually it gets cornered and dies off. And the longer it's allowed to keep propagating, the more time/reproductive cycles it has to mutate, possibly to something that's resistant to that vaccine. So the sooner it's halted, the better.
Where the vaccine zealots lose people is when they make it about themselves personally. If you're vaccinated personally you're probably (90%) fine even if you do come into contact with someone who's infected. The real issue is the epidemic as a whole, not any one individual. But of course people have to make everything about themselves so here we are.
A global pandemic from a newly crossed-over virus is like a partially completed jigsaw puzzle. There are so many unknowns, so many factors still to be understood. Never mind the factors we don't even know about yet. It's a deep, deep rabbit hole.
It can help to step back and look at the big picture: In Canada the number of serious "adverse events" from getting the vaccine stands at 0.005%, or 1 in 20,000. Compare that to the overall chance of dying from getting the virus: 1 in 50.
https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/vaccine-safety/
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ (see the 'Closed Cases' box)
Chance of dying from the virus is not 2%.
In the public health unit where I live, which is a heavy retirement area, there have been 1847 cases and 6 deaths since march 2020. This is a 0.3% chance of death, if you catch the virus. Among an elderly/retirement community. Among heathy young people, the chance of death is way lower.
At least 30% of the general population, maybe way more, have an innate immunity from previous coronaviruses and won't even catch it.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Cases which had an outcome: 175,815,603
Recovered / Discharged: 171,763,077 (98%)
Deaths: 4,052,526 (2%)
That's your experience. I have been in two cities in the last six months that have been shipping covid victims out because their hospitals are full. And I know people who have had their "normal" surgical procedures cancelled, bumped by an outbreak at the hospital or the number of covid victims already taking up beds.
Read the "Closed Cases" box in the link below. And note the "Daily New Cases" graph. There's another wave starting:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Don't be too sure of that. They've already had some cases of people getting infected by covid a second time.