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95% effective in preventing Covid but 100% effective at preventing severe Covid. If you shoot coronavirus up your nose, there's a 5% chance your body develops C
by gregorymichael 5y ago
95% effective in preventing Covid but 100% effective at preventing severe Covid. If you shoot coronavirus up your nose, there's a 5% chance your body develops Covid-19. But even then, there's a 0% chance that you will die or require hospitalization because of it.
- weird-eye-issue 5y agoI'm not worried that I'll get a severe case of covid. I'm worried I'll pass it to somebody who will.
- jfengel 5y agoZero percent is a very strong statement to make. I've got two close friends, one of whom has diabetes, the other has cystic fibrosis. Neither of these is common enough to show up significantly in the testing. Both conditions predispose to a very, very bad outcome if they do get sick without the vaccine. With the vaccine... I don't know. I don't think the testing has enough information to tell me. But it seems to me that there's a 5% chance of the disease getting a chance to start, and have its effect amplified by the pre-existing conditions. Therefore, I'm wearing a mask right now, on top of being vaccinated. It probably won't help. A year from now, the odds are probably something under .01% that it makes any difference. But I don't like those odds, and the mask is a very small imposition. I'm just saying that there's a big difference between 0.01% and 0%. I don't base my entire life on those almost-but-not-quite-zero odds, which would almost certainly become exhausting if I gave them a second thought. But in this case I have had to give it lots of thought, and the cost is small.