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>The only metric the public should be concerned about is whether they have or have not been vaccinated. That would be quite stupid. Because if the risk of the
by forcry 5y ago
>The only metric the public should be concerned about is whether they have or have not been vaccinated.
That would be quite stupid. Because if the risk of the disease is low, vaccines does not make sense when you do risk/benefit calculation.
Hence the people should know about the cases.
Of course, instead, if you are looking to push vaccines no matter what, you would say something like
>The only metric the public should be concerned about is whether they have or have not been vaccinated.
- ianhawes 5y ago> That would be quite stupid. Because if the risk of the disease is low, vaccines does not make sense when you do risk/benefit calculation. The risk of symptomatic illness is low if you are vaccinated. The risk of symptomatic illness is high if you are unvaccinated. The risk of death is high if you are unvaccinated and have pre-existing conditions and are under the age of 65. The risk of death is very high if you are unvaccinated and over the age of 65.
- forcry 5y agoPlease cite studies with randomised control trials to justify these claims.
- nradov 5y agoRegardless of number of cases, most of us will be exposed to SARS-CoV-2 eventually. Just like with other endemic coronaviruses such as HCoV-OC43.
- forcry 5y ago>Regardless of number of cases, most of us will be exposed to SARS-CoV-2 eventually. If the no of cases is nearly zero, that means the virus is no longer dangerous, so it does not really matter at that point.