So let's give the risks here the benefit of the doubt and assume the odds of dying from the vaccine are 1 in a million. Given that we've administered >1B doses, that would mean >1000 people have died from the vaccine. This clearly isn't the case. Any argument that the death rate will increase long term just shows a clear misunderstanding of the immune response. But that aside, let's still give it one in a million.
The one-year chances of dying in a car crash are ~20 in a million [1]. I assume then that if the vaccine "risk" concerns you, you've clearly given up driving, right?
A quick search suggest that US has had ~35M cases of Covid-19 and ~615K deaths. Deaths in particular is likely underreported but we'll go with the official figures.
That puts the odds of dying from Covid-19 at ~2%, which is of course 20,000 in a million. The vaccine isn't perfect but recent data shows that almost all severe cases (including death) occur in the unvaccinated population, even when there's a breakthrough infection of someone vaccinated.
This is the problem many including myself have when anyone raises the specter of "risks" because even if you assume the worst case scenario of getting the vaccine, not getting it is literally thousands of times more likely to kill you.
And that would be fine I guess if that only applied to you but it doesn't. The unvaccinated pose a health risk to everyone around them.
The anti-vaxxer position just completely defies logic. Worse, defying logic seems to be a badge of honor for some.
The one-year chances of dying in a car crash are ~20 in a million [1]. I assume then that if the vaccine "risk" concerns you, you've clearly given up driving, right?
A quick search suggest that US has had ~35M cases of Covid-19 and ~615K deaths. Deaths in particular is likely underreported but we'll go with the official figures.
That puts the odds of dying from Covid-19 at ~2%, which is of course 20,000 in a million. The vaccine isn't perfect but recent data shows that almost all severe cases (including death) occur in the unvaccinated population, even when there's a breakthrough infection of someone vaccinated.
This is the problem many including myself have when anyone raises the specter of "risks" because even if you assume the worst case scenario of getting the vaccine, not getting it is literally thousands of times more likely to kill you.
And that would be fine I guess if that only applied to you but it doesn't. The unvaccinated pose a health risk to everyone around them.
The anti-vaxxer position just completely defies logic. Worse, defying logic seems to be a badge of honor for some.
[1]: https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-mortalit...