The Democrats sneakiest plot yet? Are Democrats putting out false information in Right-wing information outlets making Republicans vaccine skeptics so they don't get the vaccine, and as a result of more of them dying, it will be harder for them to elect Republicans?
Not funny? Neither is people equating the risk of vaccines with the risks of COVID. Also not funny: the extra deaths from people not getting vaccinated.
In America today-ish:
32 million cases 570,000 deaths. That's about 1/56 of people who get it die. If our testing is way off (more people actually got it then were tested positive), let's say 1/200. That's in just over a year. It might go up over time for "lifetime odds". Or, if you just take the whole population of the US, about 1/580 of us have died from COVID so far. And the portion varies widely by geography and demography in this country. Some communities are hit WAY harder.
211 million doses of vaccines. 7 deaths (maybe) from the J&J vaccine. That's about 1/40,000,000. That could go up over your lifetime. let's say it goes up by a factor of 10 (exceedingly unlikely). Conservatively, 1/4,000,000
Let's compare with some other lifetime chances of dying....
Heart disease | 1 in 6 |
Cancer | 1 in 7 |
All preventable causes of death | 1 in 24 |
Chronic lower respiratory disease | 1 in 27 |
Suicide | 1 in 88 |
Opioid overdose | 1 in 92 |
Fall | 1 in 106 |
Motor-vehicle crash | 1 in 107 |
Gun assault | 1 in 289 |
Pedestrian incident | 1 in 543 |
But those are just death statistics. We know there are a lot of people who have serious complications and long term debilities with COVID. And we don't know what the longer long-term effects will be, how it will impact long term health and mortality yet.
And, although we also don't know the longer term effects of the vaccine yet, given what we DO know, they are likely to be vanishingly trivial compared to the COVID long-term effects.
Any way you slice it, mathematically, medically, mortally, autopsically (I just made up that word to be morbidly funny -- get it? "slice it." haha), compassionately (for the protection of your fellow humans)... health-wise, the wise health decision is vaccination. Politically, on the other hand, "I'll get the vaccine when they pry the gun from my cold, dead hands.
By the way, the newer strains could be more contagious and more lethal, and not vaccinating will allow them more opportunities to both spread and mutate further, making it all even worse. Please reconsider if you're vaccination shy for whatever reason.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/adverse-events.html
https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/all-injuries/preventable-death-overview/odds-of-dying/
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
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