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We’re in the beginning of the vaccine endgame now: regulatory approval and actual distribution/rollout into the population.
Now we have to get people to take them. Surveys continue to show a good number of people who are (at the very least) in the “why don’t you take it first” category. I tend to think that as vaccine dosing becomes reality that more people will get in line for a shot, but that remains to be seen. I wanted to highlight something that we’ll all need to keep in mind, though.
We’re talking about treating very, very large populations, which means that you’re going to see the usual run of mortality and morbidity that you see across large samples. Specifically, if you take 10 million people and just wave your hand back and forth over their upper arms, in the next two months you would expect to see about 4,000 heart attacks. About 4,000 strokes. Over 9,000 new diagnoses of cancer. And about 14,000 of that ten million will die, out of usual all-causes mortality. No one would notice. That’s now many people die and get sick anyway.
But if you took those ten million people and gave them a new vaccine instead, there’s a real danger that those heart attacks, cancer diagnoses, and deaths will be attributed to the vaccine.
Let people know that such things are going to happen, because people get sick and die constantly in this world. The key will be whether they are getting sick or dying at a noticeably higher rate once they have been vaccinated.
Like 3rd degree burns and smoke inhalation?
originally posted by: LSU2018
a reply to: dug88
That's because they're banking on Biden being sworn in to destroy the country in January. If the election comes out like it's supposed to and Trump is inaugurated instead, expect tons of highly dangerous and lethal side effects.
originally posted by: CriticalStinker
a reply to: dug88
I'm sure the vaccine side effects and deaths will be embellished just like COVID deaths.
That said, I'm waiting before I get it. At least a year, and even then, I may not get it
I don't want to be a beta tester of the first mRNA vaccine. Just not my cup of tea.
She meant wights, like from GoT....
originally posted by: Mandroid7
Not sure why we are listening to the cdc and Trumps not shutting them down.
Listen to this whacked out darla...Carol Baker
We just need to get rid of all the whites
originally posted by: slatesteam
Like 3rd degree burns and smoke inhalation?
originally posted by: LSU2018
a reply to: dug88
That's because they're banking on Biden being sworn in to destroy the country in January. If the election comes out like it's supposed to and Trump is inaugurated instead, expect tons of highly dangerous and lethal side effects.
haha beta tester
originally posted by: CriticalStinker
a reply to: LSU2018
No, I don't get flu shots either.
I had the full 90's gambit as a kid. So any of the big ones I have, and I'm cool with that. Not an antivaxer by any stretch.
But if it's something like the flu where I know odds are extremely favorable I'd be fine, I don't get a vaccine.
I rarely get sick though, and I attribute that to not trying to live in a bubble.
originally posted by: CriticalStinker
a reply to: chris_stibrany
haha beta tester
I'm pissed when I buy a game and it's wonky for months after release... I see that as them making me pay to be their beta tester.
If I do that with a first of the kind vaccine, that's on me.