It is just numbers. 1 in 100000 chance of a non-fatal side effect with the vaccine vs 1 in 200 of death with the virus. This isn't my opinion, it's a fact and as you know, facts don't care about your feelings.m121c wrote: ↑Mon Nov 15, 2021 3:29 pm Josh, I want to respectfully say I think you are using data incorrectly. If the whole basis of your argument is on the numbers, you should easily understand why I have uncertainty about all of it.
I will stand by idea that this vaccine is unprecedented, and in no way like any other in history. All of which I have had.
Regardless, just because YOU associate a higher risk to Covid, doesn’t mean I do, and I don’t think the numbers call for a one size fits all mandate through federal coercion.
I know you're about to say, "it's less deadly in young people!" Sure, but the death rate in people in their 20's is still higher than the side effect rate of the vaccine by an order of magnitude.
Also, you'd have to be a complete sociopath to not care about spreading the disease to immunocompromised people just because you personally aren't likely to die.
If someone spills cyanide in your corn flakes, that's tragic. It doesn't mean corn flakes in general are unsafe. You're making an RFK Jr style argument.
Hard to find good numbers on this. It says up to a third here. I know I see people reporting brain fog and loss of smell all over the place so that doesn't seem out of line to me.m121c wrote: ↑Mon Nov 15, 2021 3:29 pm Likely to damage the brain of whom? Everyone? To what extent? What is “likely”? You act as if healthy people haven’t gone in to get their vaccine and died. In any other circumstance we would think this is odd and unacceptable if we were talking about federally mandating it as a blanket solution.
The paper for the initial brain loss study is here. But it's comparing covid vs control. It doesn't break down percentages that had loss of brain mass. There is a histogram at the end but I'm not sure what it represents.