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To: 2aProtectsTheRest

the more common experience for unvaccinated people who frequently go into the hospital


The more common experience for 99.25% of the unvaccinated is most hardly even know they got it.

If you think you are subject to a problem take it.

your argument has no merit. HOw do you know if something is going to happen? How do you know a truck isn’t going to run over you today? Better stay in the house it could happen.

Each and every one of us is UNIQUE in our genetics, history, environment etc. We each have our own special fingerprints. YOU CAN’T PREDICT.

But one size fits all for too many people today.


54 posted on 08/02/2021 11:17:42 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: PeterPrinciple
"The more common experience for 99.25% of the unvaccinated is most hardly even know they got it."

That's incorrect. About 40% of the unvaccinated who are infected will be asymptomatic. About 40% will have mild to moderate symptoms like a cold or allergies which resolve without medical intervention. 5% will be hospitalized. 3% go to the ICU. 0.65% - 1% die. Those last two figures are changing in the past few months as treatment in hospitals has improved and as monoclonal antibody therapy has become more widely available. But those have been the basic numbers since the start of the pandemic.

"HOw do you know if something is going to happen?"

If 5,000 of every 100,000 people have an outcome of hospitalization without vaccination and 100 have an outcome of hospitalization with vaccination, you can look at the total population to make a statement that 4,900 hospitalizations have been prevented. You can't look at an individual case, but you can look at a population. Same way I can look at a population of people and say that if all of them supplement fish oil, the overall joint health of that population will improve, but I can't state with certainty that one individual within that population will see improved joint health if they take fish oil supplements.

"Each and every one of us is UNIQUE in our genetics, history, environment etc. We each have our own special fingerprints. YOU CAN’T PREDICT."

Not with certainty, no. That's why in medicine, everything is considered as a risk factor. You can reduce your risk factor for contracting COVID-19 by getting vaccinated, but some risk continues to exist. It's simply much lower. Further, you can significantly reduce your risk factor for severe illness or death from COVID-19 by getting vaccinated, but you haven't eliminated all risk. If your chances of death go from 1 in 100 to 1 in 10,000, that's pretty good. But you can't say with certainty that you won't be that 1 in 10,000.

None of this is reason for us to just throw our hands up and say "well, I guess we can't do anything about this because we can't prevent every single negative outcome in all people all the time!"

58 posted on 08/02/2021 11:48:08 AM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest (The media is banging the fear drum enough. Don't help them do it.)
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