[DugwayDuke]

so_real wrote: “I am happy for you and your family. When 5% of the vaccine batch lots are responsible for 100% of the VAERS adverse events reported, you had a 95% probability of dodging that bullet (assuming a uniform distribution).”

Lots vary in size therefore the distribution isn’t uniform.

so_real wrote: “When it comes to heart attacks, strokes, and autoimmune disorders, 5% is too great a risk for folks like me. I had a 99.997% probability of surviving Covid without hospitalization. I risked it; I caught the Covid; and I survived without hospitalization. I chose the 99% odds over the 95% odds and it was a healthy choice for me.”

You do realize the survival rate for polio was also 99%? Did you take the polio vaccine?

[roving]

Do you realize the polio vaxx gave 200,000 people the polio?

[so_real]

You do realize the survival rate for polio was also 99%?

No, I did not know that. And I still don't. That sounds like a CNN talking point. Let's see:

Disease factsheet about poliomyelitis

"The mortality rate for acute paralytic polio ranges from 5–15%."

Furthermore, the polio vaccine was a traditional attenuated / inactive germ vaccine, not an mRNA jab. And those who survived polio frequently had permanent deformities. Your comparison is not only erroneous in it's base, but also a False Equivalence logic fallacy. You are not comparing apples and oranges.

[Crusher138]

You do realize the survival rate for polio was also 99%? Did you take the polio vaccine?

Not the same thing at all. From Wikipedia... Accordingly, the rate of paralysis and death due to polio infection also increased during this time.[154] In the United States, the 1952 polio epidemic became the worst outbreak in the nation's history. Of the nearly 58,000 cases reported that year, 3,145 died and 21,269 were left with mild to disabling paralysis.[156]