Linus Torvalds: Get vaccinated. Stop believing the anti-vax lies

Re:Linus Torvalds: Get vaccinated. Stop believing the anti-v... by rcurry on Thursday June 10, 2021 @08:54PM (#27468040)

It’s not irrational for people who aren’t worried about Covid to not worry about it. I didn’t downvote you and I understand your point of view, but you have to take other people’s perspectives into consideration - to me, Covid is a bad flu and I’m not stressing over something that has a much smaller likelihood of killing me than my weekend skydives do.

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Re:Linus Torvalds: Get vaccinated. Stop believing the anti-v... by c-cube on Thursday June 10, 2021 @11:13PM (#27468886)

The vaccine is safer than Covid, by your own metric. How many people did the vaccines kill so far? How many people died of Covid?

Same goes for supposed long-term effects. The vaccines might have some, but it's less likely than the virus itself having long-term effects (it even has a name already: "long covid"). If you're young, covid is also much more dangerous than the flu.

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Re:Linus Torvalds: Get vaccinated. Stop believing the anti-v... by LatteLazy on Friday June 11, 2021 @05:44AM (#27471147)

Fyi, I think the rate of death (assuming you're over 10 and under 40) for covid is about 0.2% in the west. The chance of dying in a sky dive is about 0.001% I think? So covid is 200 times more dangerous than a skydive.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...

That said, I am 100% happy with you making an assessment for your own health. I only start objecting when people (not you) pretend there is no risk or refuse to wear a mask or decline the vaccine because its a conspiracy.

We can go back and forth getting the right risk figure and you may be happy with that risk. That's all personal freedom and good faith discussion. When people refuse the facts, that's when it gets frustrating to me. And I think a very big number are doing just that.

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