I honestly still can’t figure out why so many people are so eager to take a hastily-formulated experimental vaccine to fight a virus with a 99-percent-plus recovery rate.
That is currently where I am. I am in my late forties and reason that my risk is extremely low.
1. COVID-19 is not overly lethal for most people. Even those with aggravating conditions have a high survival rate. I see no reason to take an experimental vaccine to protect me against a disease that isn’t much more harmful than the seasonal flu.
2. I have no confidence in the safety of these experimental vaccines.
3. I have no confidence in the effectiveness of these experimental vaccines. If I have to get another vaccine in six months, than what’s the point? Will I be taking this sh!t for the rest of my life?
4. Pharmaceutical firms that make these experimental vaccines authorized for “emergency use” by the FDA are given legal immunity from lawsuits related to harmful side effects and product defects. That itself ought to be a giant red flag for anyone who is even considering a vaccine for a viral pathogen that has such a low fatality rate.
5. Every time some government bureaucrat jackass like Anthony Fauci shows up on TV wearing one or more face diapers and tells us we need to continue to take restrictive measures to protect ourselves even AFTER getting a vaccine, I have no reason to believe that these vaccines have any purpose whatsoever.
My thoughts exactly.
I see no reason to tempt fate when the risk of the disease is so low. Vaccines have long-term effects that don't show up of awhile.
I'll pass on the vaccine and take my chances with the covid.
Because the "99 percent-plus" recovery rate does not apply universally across the board.
There are several factors that significantly chip away at that 99% plus survival rate you're quoting:
There's age (over 60) and there are "comorbidities" (other illness) that put someone at greater risk of a long recovery or none at all --- at any age.
These risks include: obesity, lung disease (COPD, asthma), cardiovascular disease (arteriosclerosis, heart valve disorders, heart rhythm disorders, high blood pressure), existing immune system disorders, liver disease.
So that blanket 99%+ recovery you're quoting may be giving some folks a false sense of security.
Encourage people to make the best, informed decision they can make for themselves after talking with their personal physicians.
Just my $.02
Because, contrary to the "spin" by some on our side, it doesn't HAVE a "99 percent plus" recovery rate.
Here in MI, the mortality rate is 2.15% (17,471 deaths divided by 812,000 confirmed positive cases). And it's about 1.8% nationally, to-date. Yeah, you can play all sorts of games (like, assume there are more cases than confirmed to increase the denominator, etc), but for the sake of argument, this is deaths attributed to COVID divided by "confirmed" cases.
But that's not the "only" thing to be worried about. A very large percentage of cases have symptoms (often serious) for months after "recovery". Some may never fully recover with permanent damage to lungs, heart, etc. Here's an article from Harvard Health on that. As the article states, 50-80% of people are reported (via published studies linked in the article) to still have COVID symptoms (sometimes severe) 3+ months after they no longer show as having COVID in their system. FWIW..
Because many people personally know someone who was supposedly in good health....and still passed away after contracting Covid.