That's your opinion, it's not a lot of ours, maybe in 10years when it's has a proper testing time.
…and there's that total lack of human empathy I just mentioned. Others be damned if it inconveniences me! Me! Me!
That's your opinion, it's not a lot of ours, maybe in 10years when it's has a proper testing time.
.....If some people such as yourself who are "willing to risk it" without vaccination, do stay home to minimize spreading the thing, great, that's already MUCH better than the anti-mask folks (some violently so). Unfortunately though, those unvaccinated by choice who do contract Covid and get serious symptoms, tend to want medical care instead of waiting out this "moderate cold" at home and they clog up the medical system for the rest of us right now.
So refusing vaccination is NOT a personal choice, it's a social one and shows a total lack of human empathy.....
A hospital in Arizona imposes a $5.00 out of pocket ER surcharge and ER admissions drop by 95%. Sure some hospitals have been overwhelmed. Some of those patients had a serious case of Covid.
Unfortunately, many quoted statistics are flawed. It seems too many people in the US have either been vaccinated or already have Covid immunity or some level of protection through previous infection, or both, for us to see the current reported level of Covid case increases. This suggests vaccine effectiveness or even prior Covid infection does not confer much protection against the current dominant delta variant of Covid. It makes sense that cold and flu like viruses mutate faster than vaccine manufacturers can keep up. Somehow a “Booster” using a obsolete or at least a vaccination based on a earlier variant makes sense? All the risks of a vaccine with only some of the efficacy of a vaccine than is based on the current active Covid strain, if we had it?
I would be doing society no favors by willingly exposing myself to undefined vaccine risks without compelling benefits, for a virus that is a moderate risk hazard overall.
vaccine risks without compelling benefits
…and there's that total lack of human empathy I just mentioned. Others be damned if it inconveniences me! Me! Me!
Round numbers: an order of magnitude less risk of symptomatic infection. 2-4 orders of magnitude less risk of hospitalization upon infection. Near-elimination of the risk of death. Near-elimination of the risk of Long Covid (an issue with at least a quarter of sympatomatic infections without vaccination) because vaccination severely blunts our immune over-reaction to infection. Those massive reductions in risk are a hell of a tangible benefit!
There's a major difference between "less effective against the spread of Delta" and "doesn't protect much against Delta". Reality is the former, you imply the latter. In my province, 97% of hospitalizations for Covid are not vaccinated. It's obvious that vaccination has a major impact.
VPhantom, please post your data and the source. ThanksRoughly 70% of emergency hospital visits and admissions are from unvaccinated Covid-related patients right now. (About 75% of them are Covid-related, and about 95% of those aren't vaccinated, ≅70%.)
I have spent many hours researching Covid, including reading various studies.
VPhantom, please post your data and the source. Thanks
Please be specific about the misinformation you are referring to.When it comes to public health and safety I want to do the right thing. I can't in good conscience remain a sponsor of any place where dangerous covid deniers are welcome to post potentially harmful misinformation.