“I’m not taking a vaccine for anything that is 98% survivable”
Me neither. I’ve asked the Branch Covidians why I should take the vaccine that has unknown risks when I am very certain that my chances of making a full recovery are around 99.5%. All I get is crickets or a bunch of BS.
you are confusing ‘recovery’ with basic still breathing survival. If infected your chances of dying in the USA currently, are 1 in 59.
How lucky are you? “Recovery” for 10% of the remaining 58 (higher for ICU discharges) can mean long covid, short or chronic lung, heart, liver and kidney damage, blood cell abnormalities, clotting abnormalities, brain shrinkage, morbidity enhancement and immune and neuromuscular damage. Kinda like the virus does to bats squirming on the cave floor.
Monoclonal antibodies, another ‘experimental!!, untested in animals!! not 10 years of research!!’ drug, might prevent up to 70% of hospitalizations, morbidity-dependent, but that’s equal to or lower than, most vaccines. (and if they don’t work, you’re in real trouble because monoclonals are one of the very few last lines of defense there is and variants are already building resistence to them)