https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#covidnet-hospitali...
Plus AIUI Omicron has demonstrated recombinant replication, which means we're playing a flu-like cat and mouse game with the vaccines. Nobody in their right mind would argue we have any hope of effectively vaccinating everyone against influenza.
https://virological.org/t/omicron-is-a-multiply-recombinant-...
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2787944
Would you like me to wipe your ass next as well?
That's an awful way to analyze risk.
If you have a one in a million risk of something, and you trade it for a different but nearly-identical one in a million risk for the same thing, and then get the bad outcome, you did not make the wrong choice. Let alone if you traded for a lower risk.
Every step you take, you trade out trillions of potential futures. You are always, always creating new risks and destroying old risks. A decision like getting vaccinated is easy to point at and say "oh I shouldn't have done it" but you could just as realistically say "if I hadn't eaten tuna seven weeks ago these problems wouldn't have happened".
You do not get to compare the outcome of a specific case, only knowable in hindsight, with the "infinitesimal risk" of the alternative.
Data collection regarding adverse events was laughably inadequate based on testimony over Pfizer's clinical trial protocol, and their data is still not available for review by anyone other than the FDA, which is known to suffer from regulatory capture. Rosy claims about the vaccines have been repeatedly walked back...the safety of these vaccines is likely overstated.
That's a good point, but it's not the point being made when someone links to a side effect report and implies it was wrong to get vaccinated, as if vaccines need to meet an impossible 0-side-effect standard.
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#mis-national-surve...
* Heart disease: 696,962
* Cancer: 602,350
* COVID-19: 350,831
* Accidents (unintentional injuries): 200,955
* Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 160,264
* Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 152,657
* Alzheimer’s disease: 134,242
* Diabetes: 102,188
* Influenza and Pneumonia: 53,544
* Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 52,547
I mean there are massive institutes, companies, and laboratories engaged in research on both these topics, tons of fund-raising, campaigns to improve diet and exercise, shockingly expensive treatments and so on. Other than all of that, yes, nobody bats an eye.
such lunacy
Couldn't that be applied to deaths from other diseases? Why wouldn't all influenza deaths be considered one event by this standard?
There have been six of them in the last 140 years with respect to influenza. The Spanish Flu pandemic killed 675k (in the USA, like 50 mil worldwide or something wild like that.)
If you're so sure, name one.
Civil war was less than a million, by the way.