The hard data shows the real world risk is very very low, if the u40s don't vaccinate and get COVID-19, more of them will die from COVID-19 or suffer seriously debilitating long term health effects than the risk of sever complication from a vaccine side-effect.
If a million people get vaccinated, one might die from a directly attributed side-effect of any vaccine. If a million people do not get vaccinated, only about 30 have to get COVID-19 for the risk of one person dying to be equally the same as the one million who got vaccinations! The math puts the political and social media debate to shame, it is a non-contest, vaccines (any vaccine) will save lives. That doesn't even consider the fact that the Sars-CoV-2 is highly contagious, and the likelihood of more than just 30 unvaccinated individuals getting infected is very high. In the UK for every one million unvaccinated / vaccinated individuals they average at the moment about 70,000 infections, with that number set to rise under the new variant some are predicting a 300% increase. The only thing stopping the UK death rate soaring, in fact it is plummeting, is that they have a large percentage of the UK population already vaccinated with at least one dose.
Arguing against using the available vaccines is a bit like a passivist arguing not to attack because they will shoot us, when the enemy is Putin's KGB hit squad and they already have a gun cocked and pointed at your forehead! The anti-vaxxers are like the French in the war, don't shoot I surrender!
Cynics will argue those numbers do not apply here in Oz, but that is a symptom of our lockdowns not a symptom of the virus or vaccinations. At the moment we do not have 70,000 infections per-million because of the lockdowns. If we do lose control of the outbreak, we will have hundreds per million dying from COVID-19 illness.
If a million people get vaccinated, one might die from a directly attributed side-effect of any vaccine. If a million people do not get vaccinated, only about 30 have to get COVID-19 for the risk of one person dying to be equally the same as the one million who got vaccinations! The math puts the political and social media debate to shame, it is a non-contest, vaccines (any vaccine) will save lives. That doesn't even consider the fact that the Sars-CoV-2 is highly contagious, and the likelihood of more than just 30 unvaccinated individuals getting infected is very high. In the UK for every one million unvaccinated / vaccinated individuals they average at the moment about 70,000 infections, with that number set to rise under the new variant some are predicting a 300% increase. The only thing stopping the UK death rate soaring, in fact it is plummeting, is that they have a large percentage of the UK population already vaccinated with at least one dose.
Arguing against using the available vaccines is a bit like a passivist arguing not to attack because they will shoot us, when the enemy is Putin's KGB hit squad and they already have a gun cocked and pointed at your forehead! The anti-vaxxers are like the French in the war, don't shoot I surrender!
Cynics will argue those numbers do not apply here in Oz, but that is a symptom of our lockdowns not a symptom of the virus or vaccinations. At the moment we do not have 70,000 infections per-million because of the lockdowns. If we do lose control of the outbreak, we will have hundreds per million dying from COVID-19 illness.
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