Trying to catch up on this thread. This one stopped me.First of all, I don't care if you get vaccinated or not. If you die from Covid without having a vaccination, we will miss you....
If you assume that your freedom consists of not taking any prophylactic actions with respect to the health of your fellow citizens, then shame on you. Your right to act as you wish ends when you impair the rights of another. That DOES NOT mean I expect you to get vaccinated. It does mean that I expect you to respect the rights of others and do your utmost not to infect them, particularly the most vulnerable.
Per the CDC: Of the 176 million vaccinated, 14,115 hospitalizations or deaths. (a/o 09-07-2021)
That's 0.008%.
We know that the rates for unvaccinated are much higher (those rates are posted all over this site). People are dying at the rate of 1500 per day from the disease. You run out of the 14,115 parameter in a week and a half if you decide to include all of them in your computation.
Try again.
So you’re arguing this vaccine lowers the positivity rate AND makes the likelihood of serious illness just 0.008% in the already unlikely event (because of how good the vaccine is) that a person even catches it. But if I don’t get vaccinated I am recklessly endangering my vaccinated grandmother’s life? Those two claims can’t exist at the same time. And by your own numbers, this certainly doesn’t seem like something worth cheering for government overreach over.
I agree with your numbers and your belief that this vaccine is exceptionally good at saving lives. That’s precisely why I’m against forcing it on people in the name of protecting others.