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So, in Marion County (Pop 2021: 976,246), the death rate over two years has been 0.24% (2,365 people), or equivalent to 0.12% of the population annually. Meaning the other 99.87% of us survived either getting it, or our close friends and family getting it, whether vaccinated or not.
Look at all the financial carnage and business failures created by our politicians over this time period.
👍 Truth!
That would be true only if 100% of Marion County residents contracted the virus. Which hasn’t happened because a significant percentage are vaccinated.
The right calculation is deaths/the number of cases, not number of people. So, 2,365/169,817 = 1.4% death rate.
👍Truth!
Let’s apply your mathematical evaluation to the terrorist attacks of 9/11. The percentage of the U.S. population killed was significantly lower…something on the order of 0.001%. In response, we engaged in wars that cost the U.S. $8 trillion, spent billions upon billions on homeland security, enacted security measures at airports and countless public places that cause significant inconvenience, economic disruption and yes, loss of some of our freedoms. Should we have simply moved on and ignored that threat? And yet, every couple of days COVID kills the equivalent of a 9/11 attack, and many Americans act like it is no big deal. These same people don’t complain when they stand in long TSA lines, submit to invasive searches, remove shoes, etc., but they beat up flight attendants when told to wear a mask on the plane. It truly makes no sense.
I though every life was sacred and had value. I guess to some that is relative or negotiable.
At some point Human mortality rate is still 100%, we will ask die. I wonder if the folks tauting the sanctity of life in this case are largely pro-choice individuals on the other side
What Rebecca was noting is the proportionality. The “every life is sacred” commentor simply is making excuses for group of people that have managed to severely damage the country with a sickness that is being portrayed in a way that is totally out of proportion to its lethality. Treatments, and very effective treatments, are being stymied and discarded in order to vaccinate the entire population with a vaccine that is COMPLETELY untested with little or no regard to its ultimate damage to human beings. AND IT DOESN’T WORK! How do I know? I got COVID from a COMPLETELY VACCINATED PERSON.
“Completely untested” is a huge lie spread by liars and fools.
The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines have undergone the largest clinical trials in human history and have demonstrated that they are safe and effective at preventing severe disease. Just like all the other vaccines people of a certain age have received for smallpox, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, pertussis, tetanus…
You’re correct, Neil, both vaccinated and unvaccinated people can contract COVID.
Buildings both with and without smoke detectors and sprinkler systems can catch fire … which one would you rather be in?
To carry Joe’s thought further: you can be asleep in a house with smoke detectors in each bedroom and a fire extinguisher in the kitchen, or just the fire extinguisher. In which house are you more likely to survive a fire?
Let’s apply Rebecca’s mathematical evaluation to the terrorist attacks of 9/11. The percentage of the U.S. population killed was significantly lower…something on the order of 0.001%. In response, we engaged in wars that cost the U.S. $8 trillion, spent billions upon billions on homeland security, enacted security measures at airports and countless public places that cause significant inconvenience, economic disruption and yes, loss of some of our freedoms. Should we have simply moved on and ignored that threat? And yet, every couple of days COVID kills the equivalent of a 9/11 attack, and many Americans act like it is no big deal. These same people don’t complain when they stand in long TSA lines, submit to invasive searches, remove shoes, etc., but they beat up flight attendants when told to wear a mask on the plane. It truly makes no sense.
Steve, clearly logic and thoughtful analysis won’t convince True Believers.
I’ve come around to the idea that health insurance shouldn’t cover Covid costs for the unvaccinated. Free shots vs. $10,000+ treatment with monoclonal antibodies should focus people’s decision-making. Freedom to walk around unvaxxed = responsibility for the cost of the disease treatment.
Let the free market decide.
Chris, that makes so much sense that the Indiana legislature is threatening to make it illegal.
The actual text of the bill calls out insurance companies as persons being unable to “discriminate” based on vaccination status.
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2022/01/04/covid-indiana-bill-would-ban-vaccine-status-discrimination/9033808002/
Joe, of course they are. Socialism works when they do it, otherwise, they’re free market all the way.
They don’t believe in anything but power. They don’t want to live in America, they want to live in a “democracy” like Russia or Hungary where things are rigged in their favor.