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> There´s only one reason for taking the vaxx, to protect yourself from severe disease. My second reason to get vaccinated was to slow down spread as far as re

> There´s only one reason for taking the vaxx, to protect yourself from severe disease. My second reason to get vaccinated was to slow down spread as far as reasonably possible. Ergo, there are more reasons to get vaccinated than just that one you mentioned. > If you´re young and healthy, [...] you benefit as much from the vaccine as you do from a tinfoil hat. Bullshit. A tinfoil hat doesn't protect you against a covid infection a few weeks down the line, a vaccine does. And even though the likelyhood of severe symptoms for COVID-19 is generally lower for younger people, it's still beneficial to get vaccinated due to the lower chance on extreme symptoms and 'long covid'.

LifeIsThermal 5y ago
The risk of severe illness in healthy people is extremely low. Here in Sweden it´s less than 0.2%. If you already had covid the risk is something like 0.00008% to even get infected. In my view, both of those numbers are so low that protection from vaccination is equal to a tinfoil hat. Only an idiot vaccinates himself for a virus with 0.2% risk of severe disease. Now, there might be a difference in what we call "healthy people" here in Sweden. Because we´re not fat.
- lawn 5y ago
  Only an idiot thinks that 0.2% is low or that a tinfoil hat (which gives exactly zero protection) is equal to the protection the vaccine gives.
- shaftway 5y ago
  So, I think you're trying to say the risk is low, but non-zero. And getting vaccinated would seem to lower this further. Making it more valuable than a tin foil hat?
checkyoursudo 5y ago
Other than not wanting to get the illness yourself, there is another major reason to get the vaccine. The more that people get the illness, then the more likely the virus is to evolve variants. Regardless of how bad or not bad it is now, a future variant could always be much, much worse. And there is just no way to know if or when that might happen. As many people as possible getting vaxxed is the best way to prevent some future deadly variant. Getting it naturally is and surviving does not help in this regard, because that is where most (all?) of the variants come from to begin with.

LifeIsThermal 5y ago

The risk of severe illness in healthy people is extremely low. Here in Sweden it´s less than 0.2%. If you already had covid the risk is something like 0.00008% to even get infected. In my view, both of those numbers are so low that protection from vaccination is equal to a tinfoil hat. Only an idiot vaccinates himself for a virus with 0.2% risk of severe disease. Now, there might be a difference in what we call "healthy people" here in Sweden. Because we´re not fat.

lawn 5y ago
Only an idiot thinks that 0.2% is low or that a tinfoil hat (which gives exactly zero protection) is equal to the protection the vaccine gives.
shaftway 5y ago
So, I think you're trying to say the risk is low, but non-zero. And getting vaccinated would seem to lower this further. Making it more valuable than a tin foil hat?

checkyoursudo 5y ago

Other than not wanting to get the illness yourself, there is another major reason to get the vaccine. The more that people get the illness, then the more likely the virus is to evolve variants. Regardless of how bad or not bad it is now, a future variant could always be much, much worse. And there is just no way to know if or when that might happen. As many people as possible getting vaxxed is the best way to prevent some future deadly variant. Getting it naturally is and surviving does not help in this regard, because that is where most (all?) of the variants come from to begin with.