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Why are people so afraid of something that has less than 0.01% of killing them? I am living my life as normally as I can, yet I am unvaccinated and rarely ever

Why are people so afraid of something that has less than 0.01% of killing them? I am living my life as normally as I can, yet I am unvaccinated and rarely ever wear a mask. I feel mankind has handled this poorly, and has created many more unnecessary problems. I wish more people would join me, living life to its fullest. This thing will only be over when WE decide it is.

aakresearch 5y ago
I am with you. I have looked at age distribution of covid deaths multiple times and it seems to me that the risk is roughly the same as the background probability of dying from any cause within a year as presented here: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html. The number corresponding to my age from that table is around 1/300. Doubling that doesn't bother me in the slightest. I'd probably start being slightly concerned once the background probability reaches 1%, i.e. at the age of about 60. Now, as someone obese with hypertension and pre-diabetes, I am sure my covid risk is somewhat higher, but still immaterial in light of my background risk, which is much, much, much higher. It is the latter that I should be working on, and what I'm trying to do when suicide ideation and the madness of mask and vax mandates momentarily loses it's grip on me. I am absolutely livid that those who set up these rules to combat the minuscule probability all but ensure that real big probabilities for many people will grow even bigger. Talk about penny-wise and pound-foolish. For some reason they do not even acknowledge that concerns other than covid exist, that are absolutely dwarfing their fearmongering despite all their trying. The message I am hearing from covid-enthusiasts is: "You're rubbish, crazy, mental nutjob. Your problems are imaginary, and if you die tomorrow from your own hand, good riddance! Our fully vaxed percentage will go higher, for the common good."

aakresearch 5y ago

I am with you. I have looked at age distribution of covid deaths multiple times and it seems to me that the risk is roughly the same as the background probability of dying from any cause within a year as presented here: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html. The number corresponding to my age from that table is around 1/300. Doubling that doesn't bother me in the slightest. I'd probably start being slightly concerned once the background probability reaches 1%, i.e. at the age of about 60. Now, as someone obese with hypertension and pre-diabetes, I am sure my covid risk is somewhat higher, but still immaterial in light of my background risk, which is much, much, much higher. It is the latter that I should be working on, and what I'm trying to do when suicide ideation and the madness of mask and vax mandates momentarily loses it's grip on me. I am absolutely livid that those who set up these rules to combat the minuscule probability all but ensure that real big probabilities for many people will grow even bigger. Talk about penny-wise and pound-foolish. For some reason they do not even acknowledge that concerns other than covid exist, that are absolutely dwarfing their fearmongering despite all their trying. The message I am hearing from covid-enthusiasts is: "You're rubbish, crazy, mental nutjob. Your problems are imaginary, and if you die tomorrow from your own hand, good riddance! Our fully vaxed percentage will go higher, for the common good."