I am personally offended by the "You don't agree with me/science/the church/government/qanon/etc therefore you are dumb" argument.
I am sorry, but I disagree.
People should definitely respect each other's personal choices. Each of us should be free to think and do as we choose.
But when people start saying that being vaccinated offers greater protection from Covid than natural immunity (a truth proven by science), they need to be called out as fucking stupid.
Repeatedly. You can't debate a fact.
Just like I don't have to "respect the opinion" of Flat Earthers, or people who believe that fairies and goblins are real.
We cannot live in such a world where outright lies reign as some sort of mass truth.
"Repeat a lie often enough, and it becomes the truth."Posting this to clarify science.
To start, I am
NOT in favor of mandatory vax for many reasons, mostly associated with freedom of choice in an unclear environment.
Having said that what you posted (which is likely to be true) does not really apply from the sequence of events perspective.
Sequence one: you are not vaxxed, your chance of dying is 11/1000 per year. Yes, for 989 people who survived, they might have a pretty good immune conditioning, but about 3 times more people died.
Sequence two: you are vaxxed, your chance of dying is 3.5-4.2/1000 per year. Your immune status is probably less effective, but less people died, statistically (at least from what i found).
Data:
https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths-by-vaccinationhttps://www.pharmacytimes.com/view/covid-19-vaccinated-individuals-had-lower-non-covid-19-death-ratesIn my extended family three people (unvaxxed) died. They were not young (therefore their risk was much higher), but died from COVID for sure. One died before vaccines were available, but two others did not want to be vaccinated.
However, it is also possible that in the future vax status would matter little if strains like the current one would break through easily.
As you can see on the graphs in the first link, death rates 'advantage' of vaxxed vs not vaxxed is declining (there is a "hump"), but still quite significant.
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