So 5 billion shots with a 0.005% adverse reaction - not death, mind you, just a reaction that needs hospital care - is more scary than a 2% fatality rate from the virus, or the risk of passing it on to someone vulnerable.
There's a game some people play with statistics. People who want to minimize the risk of covid use two numbers: 1) people in a country who die of covid, and 2) the population of that country. That produces a really low fatality percentage because the whole population of the country has not caught the virus.
It seems to me to be much more reasonable for 2) to be the number of people who have tested positive for covid. That way you can say that "of X number of people who have tested positive for covid X% have died".
In Canada 1,443,520 people have had the virus and either recovered or died. 26,790 have died, and that rounds off to 2%.
So you've never been vaccinated for anything and never had dental work done.
Or if you have you know all the ingredients and are convinced that none of them have side effects.
So 5 billion shots with a 0.005% adverse reaction - not death, mind you, just a reaction that needs hospital care - is more scary than a 2% fatality rate from the virus, or the risk of passing it on to someone vulnerable.
Well, you do you.
There's a game some people play with statistics. People who want to minimize the risk of covid use two numbers: 1) people in a country who die of covid, and 2) the population of that country. That produces a really low fatality percentage because the whole population of the country has not caught the virus.
It seems to me to be much more reasonable for 2) to be the number of people who have tested positive for covid. That way you can say that "of X number of people who have tested positive for covid X% have died".
In Canada 1,443,520 people have had the virus and either recovered or died. 26,790 have died, and that rounds off to 2%.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/canada/