Here is a link to more info:
https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/5-...-variant-covid
Whatever your gamble is, Good luck !
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Anyone that thinks there immune systems is strong enough to resist COVID and make it just as easy as the non vaxxed I can get someone to lick or rub saliva on your front door, car, and mailbox who has caught .. Originally Posted by gimme_thatHere's my dilemma
EVERYONE THAT DISAGREES WITH ME IS MISINFORMED
The vaccines do not stop the virus 100%. But the risk of getting infected isvmuch lower than if you are unvaccinated. Many people in the US, in particular in the South, are still unvaccinated, and while a person infected with the original COVID-19 virus would infect 2.5 people on average, the new Delta variant is much more infectious. A person with that variant will on average infect 3-4 other people. This leads to a much higher infection rate. The good news is that if you get infected in spite having got acvaccine, your case will likely be less serious than if you did not. It may save you a week or two in the hospital and a lot of suffering, not to mention significant medical expenses.That is the sole intention of the vaccine. But some people who are not vaccinated will simply not get Covid19. There is also a significant percentage of people who are vaccinated will still contract the virus and from what my Physician has told me 20% of the vaccinated in his area of practice have been Hospitalized. So it's a whole array of factors that are involved in terms of who gets sick, who gets hospitalized and who will die. The vaccine may play in part a predictor to these stats but nothing is perfect and the vaccine certainly isn't.
Here is a link to more info:
https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/5-...-variant-covid
Whatever your gamble is, Good luck !
Originally Posted by myren1900
Why is the concept of probability so hard to comprehend for so many people?I think the biggest problem people have is the politicizing of this virus and contradictory information. As far as Probability, I am not sure of the accuracy behind that concept.
Would you be just as likely to play a game of Russian roulette with 5 bullets in the chamber as with one?
Very few things are guaranteed 100%. You can wear a mask, do social distancing and be vaccinated, and still catch COVID and even die, but it is way less likely to happen than if you don’t do any of that.
You can use condoms, avoid street walkers, STG girls and known BBFS providers and still catch a STD, but it is less likely than if you bareback anyone that breathe.
You can even jump out of a 6-story building and survive but it isn’t likely.
Originally Posted by myren1900