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Indeed, as I wrote and documented here, people 65+ (especially with comorbidities) have way more to fear than the younger cohort. Their case fatality rate is 6.82% vs 0.41% for the younger folks, with an infection and fatality rate per 100,000 in that 65+ age bracket of 6,624 and 451, respectively. It's not Ebola, but it isn't the flu. Why, it's almost as if it was engineered to be that way...

For this older group, the choice is mixed...yes, the Moderna vaccine's test group of 14,000 subjects had only 5 COVID19 infections 14 days after the last injection vs 90 for the placebo. That's good - especially since non of the five were over 64 - but that's also only after 14 days of testing; these studies usually run 2-3 years. And the vaccine's messenger RNA platform has never been released to the public, so we'd want to see if that causes a problem or two. Finally 50%+ more of the vaxx vs placebo recipients felt terrible after the 2nd shot, and maybe their staying home etc suppressed the infection rate..

I can totally understand why someone 65+ will take the chance with the vaccine. I can also understand why they'd opt out. For most people below 65, the vaccine seems overkill statistically but maximizImg utility isn't about statistics always.

Maybe, just maybe, they'd have higher immunization rates if putzes like Fauci didn't play fast and lose with the truth, giving rise to a sneaking suspicion that this was never about improving your health nor our families’ health. Thank you.