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With a highly infectious disease and public health measures that aren't liable to last forever if you do not get vaccinated you will almost surely eventually be
by michaelmrose 5y ago
With a highly infectious disease and public health measures that aren't liable to last forever if you do not get vaccinated you will almost surely eventually be infected. The appropriate comparison is
chance of infection(near 100%) * chance of negative consequences * cost of consequences
vs
chance of vaccine related injury * cost of vaccine related injury + newly reduced chance of infection and negative effects if infected anyway.
An 18 year old male who will eventually get covid if not vaccinated is trading a 1 in 500 chance of death and a 60% chance of lung damage for a 1 in 363,000 chance of myocarditis with a drastically reduced chance of getting covid which will if contracted virtually certainly be mild.
It's legitimate to be worried about anything that may effect the health of your family but if you actually understand the numbers its crazy not to get vaccinated.
- roenxi 5y ago> An 18 year old male who will eventually get covid if not vaccinated At risk of repeating myself, this thread is about people who have already had COVID. Getting vaccinated isn't going to radically change the odds of what happens in the future. And thanks to mutations, it is quite likely that if they get the vaccine they're going to catch COVID eventually anyway.