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Originally Posted by Rain Man
This is a very important note to me. It sounds like being vaccinated makes more much less likely to get covid in the first place, and much less likely to be hospitalized, and much less likely to die.
But I've been curious about the breakthrough cases that died. I've been wondering if I still have a chance to die if I get it, or if the breakthrough deaths have been people who have pre-existing vulnerabilities. It would make sense to me that the breakthrough deaths would be people who are already vulnerable.
And if the average age of death is 81, that pretty much answers my question. While there's always going to be some non-zero chance of dying, this stat tells me that as a healthy guy under the age of 60, I'm not going to die as long as I'm vaccinated. So I can move forward with confidence.
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People seem to want absolutes and there are none with covid. But if you know anything about stats and odds, the vaccine performs better by a vast margin in every respect compared to unvaxxed. You have less chance of being infected, MUCH less chance of being hospitalized which translates into a MUCH better chance of survival.
If this was Russian roulette, not getting vaccinated means the cylinder has about 100 chambers and if you are vaccinated, the cylinder has like a million chambers.
And the more the math proves itself out over time, the more lame the excuses for not getting vaccinated become.
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