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Originally Posted by KenKat
Just take a look at your numbers in a different way. I will use my age group and a younger age group:
50-59
- chance of death, 1 in 200
- chance of hospitalization, 1 in 20
I don’t feel great about those numbers really. A vaccine made sense for me.
20-29
- chance of death, 1 in 5000
- chance of hospitalization, 1 in 50
These numbers, maybe you don’t need to worry but even 1 in 50, I don’t know. Taken across a lot of people, small percentages can really add up. But, you know, if you are 20-29, I can see waiting to get a vaccine, one of my sons did and it was ultimately his choice. He’s gone ahead now that it was officially approved by the FDA (pfizer).
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The odds you post are if you are a
documented case. The total population of people ages 50-59 is ~600,000. Your chances of dying from COVID are 476/600,000 = 0.08%. Weight and physical condition strongly affect your chances so even that estimate is high.
I'm in the 50-59 range also.
I am vaccinated and encourage others to be. If I were below 40, or planned to have children, I might view it differently. Based on the science (data).
If "we" were "following the science", "we" would focus on the elderly, obese, diabetic, etc. Not forcing vaccination on young people.
COVID isn't going away. We need to be freed from the narrative so we can get on with our lives
https://www.infoplease.com/us/census...hic-statistics