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Can anyone provide a reason for why someone should get their first covid shot?
Not being an expert in epidemiology with a life-time history of study and experience, I trust those we've appointed as the experts.
So I ask their reps whether I should. Those reps tell me I should, and that the risks are so low that driving to the pharmacy makes a difference in the risk as a whole, and that I can prevent Nana from getting a serious disease which is still affecting things as a local drop-in clinic was shut down over last weekend.
So I trust the accredited experts with a statistically mind-numbingly obvious question and do the thing with obscenely low risk that will prevent me from picking up a death sentence for my nana on the airplane if I ride a train to the airport and fly to go see her.
And, ultimately, the reason one should get their first covid shot is because they're no longer an anti-vax tinfoil-hat weirdo? THat'll be the number one, so I'm just playing the odds.
To summarize this: My grandmother had a 28,000x greater risk of dying from COVID than having ANY adverse reaction from the vaccine (not death -- ANY reaction that would need medical attention). My mother (who turned into a huge conspiracy theory moron over the course of the pandemic) refused to get grandma vaccinated, which had us in front of a judge, where he respectfully read her the riot act about her risking her mother's life over Facebook and Youtube.
It protects them and those around them from a serious and sometimes fatal disease?
Or if you typoed that, the reason you might not get it would be having an allergy to any of its ingredients.
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If people are cancerned about fatal disease, why does nobody proactively prevent catching the flu, given the stats of yealy deaths from influenza?
This question has been asked and answered many, many times. By now, asking this kind of question shows either an inability to search, to compare two different numbers for lethality, communicability or preventability; or this is classic false-dilemma crap from the anti-science crowd.
Your answers are found trivially via google.
I was going to reply with actual answers, but then I realized that if you actually wanted to know the answers, you could take literally 30 seconds to look up any of those questions. And the fact that you’re still asking them given the ample time, means you’re either willfully ignorant, or just stirring the pot.
Could be that people need to stop being manipulated into living in fear, stop being a slave to their emotions, and accept that risks are part of living, and the only concrete garauntee you ave is that you will for sure die?
Literally just a list of reasons to get vaccinated.
Oh do you know of something to help a person never die, will never ever suffer death?
Do you have really any understanding of the concept of risk? Or is risk just a binary thing to you? Do you not look both ways before crossing the street either? After all you'll die someday either way.
If people are cancerned about fatal disease, why does nobody proactively prevent catching the flu, given the stats of yealy deaths from influenza?
Some people do, about 20% in Saskatchewan.
I've been getting the annual flu vaccine since it became available.
I don't particularly worry about disease and accidents and definitely don't live in fear, but I take standard precautions: vaccinations, diet, fitness, PPE in my shop, etc. It's all relatively simple and mostly low effort.