Its not so much being emotional, other than noting that many of the people potentially getting harmed by this experimental concoction had a nearly nil chance of being taken out by the CoVid (particularly if the CDC/Government had allowed the use of HCQ and Ivermectin) - so yes, one is too many.
The number you posited are fair - sure, if you have a disease killing 25+% of those infected, then yes - it is worth taking the risk.
But I agree - let everyone make their decision. I just wish that we had data that we could all trust to base our decisions.
Ivermectin does have a very long record for safety. But for COVID patients it is clearly an experimental concoction and has a small benefit in studies like this: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2777389/
Let's state up-front, "cases" in terms of this this field usually are not just a positive test BUT with symptoms. With COVID19 we only had a positive test. That's big for horizontal comparisons.
In addition, about 94% of all fatalities with COVID19 on the death certificate have comorbidities. Now, that's not unusual for comorbidities to be present. But there was a financial incentive to put down COVID19 as The cause. So we got that issue.
I posted the CDC case and fatality data by age and we see a 1.79% case fatality rate across all people (or people with a positive test result survive 98.21% of the time), with the fatalities per 100,000 people basically tripling by age bracket after 17. Anyone over 64 has a higher than average chance of dying if they get this bug, but everyone under 65 has a 99.59% of survival if they get the bug.
Moderna...they had about 14,000 test subjects and 14,000 placebo subjects. During Nov 2020, 14 days after the second vaccine 5 of the vaxxed subjects had COVID19 vs 90 in the placebo group. But 96% of the vaxxed group felt terrible after the second vaccine, which could have led to self-sequestration/staying home (vs 56% in the placebo) and impacted the infection rate. And none of the 28,000 subjects died of COVID19...after a few weeks of observation...that's part of why the vaccine was released under an Emergency Use Authorization approval because the FDA usually waits for a 2-3 year observation period.
I think that is PLENTY of data and facts for a normal person to make an informed decision about getting vaccinated and whether or not the past 16 months was worth it.