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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by Daishiman on Thursday February 03, 2022 @10:44PM (#30202604)
> hat includes my wife and kids, the entire families of all my best friends, my coworkers, my boss, my kids' teachers, everyone, and they are ALL VACCINATED to the man. The prior two waves never got within 3 degrees of freedom to me, vaccine or not.

And did they die? Because the vaccines are tremendously effective at reducing symptom severity, hospitalization and deaths.

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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by Izkata on Friday February 04, 2022 @09:25AM (#30207083)
More likely than not the outcome would have been the same even if they were unvaccinated, because covid-19 just isn't that bad of a virus. If you're under 30 years old, even with Wuhan/Alpha/Delta variants, you were at lower risk than with the yearly flu.
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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by Daishiman on Sunday February 06, 2022 @03:04PM (#30236417)
> If you're under 30 years old, even with Wuhan/Alpha/Delta variants, you were at lower risk than with the yearly flu.

This is objectively false; the IFR of all Covid variants is one order of magnitude greater than the flu, with the possible exception of a few years in the century with particularly virulent seasonal flus.

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