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Re:Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less... by jonathanstrange on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @12:16PM (#29554218)
That risk is an order of magnitude lower. Moreover, you're not taking that risk "...every time you drive". That risk is much lower, of course, given that most people drive more than once a year.
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Re:Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less... by jdminhbg on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @02:10PM (#29555940)
> Moreover, you're not taking that risk "...every time you drive". That risk is much lower, of course, given that most people drive more than once a year.

The OP comparison of Covid to a football game has the same issue, of course.

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Re:Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less... by kenjackson on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @12:53PM (#29554753)
Correct. It is about 1 death per 100 million miles driven per the table given by the other commenter. Those are actually much better odds than I was expecting!
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Re:Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less... by clairity on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @01:54PM (#29555711)
that doesn’t mean it takes you driving 100m miles to die; that’s a population level statistic. your lifetime chances of death by car is 1 in 100.
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Re:Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less... by kenjackson on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @05:02PM (#29558599)
Right. The 100m miles is more useful because it sets the scale of usage. 1 in 100 odds over your lifetime doesn't say anything about how likely you are to die at any given point in time. It's just that when you do die, there was a 1% chance it was in a car accident.
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