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Something I read[1] that resonated a few months ago: > Dying from Covid is more or less optional at this point. If you want to remove the risk of dying, get th
by mherdeg 5y ago
Something I read[1] that resonated a few months ago:
> Dying from Covid is more or less optional at this point. If you want to remove the risk of dying, get the vaccine. If you want to take the risk, don’t.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29561158 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29561158
This is a bit reductive -- people in some countries may not have easy access to the vaccine, people whose immune systems don't respond to the vaccine may need still-scarce antiviral treatment to maintain a mortality rate on par with the vaccinated, and in the US there may still be people who genuinely cannot logistically manage getting the vaccine.
But this is something I've been thinking about a bit lately: when will be the "tipping point" after which more than 50% of all US covid deaths will have been a personal choice?
We're at about 950k deaths now. The "everyone will be eligible to schedule an appointment" date was in April 2021 (at about 570k deaths). So maybe another 3 months?
- lamontcg 5y agoEvery wave now is also very likely to be less of a strain on the health care system than the last. The virulence of the virus isn't changing that much, the biggest effect is that most people have gained immunity. The fact that 90% of the people in hospitals are unvaccinated though while vaccination rates are at least >60% everywhere is a sign though that the unvaccinated population still has failed to achieve a level of immunity equal to vaccination. They're going to just accumulate immunity the hard way though with more human casualties and death. There isn't a lot to be done about that though. Eventually the rates of unvaccinated in the hospital with each wave will start reflecting the population rate of unvaccinated and we'll be at pretty much 100% seroprevalence finally.