I think Black Plague was like 60% fatality rate and killed so many people that it's theorized it paved the way for the enlightenment by disrupting entrenched economic stratification.
Covid is essentially the flu compared to a real historical pandemic.
Like isn't a turing complete language proven to be the highest level one can go to be able to do anything required with code?
Everything past that reduces the amount of code but also reduces the number of things the code can do and at some point in the code reduction, it's just a declarative language?
Its all shades of gray between imperative/functionsl and declarative.
If I walk into a room of people with the black plague, I'm concerned about every single person in that room giving me the disease not just the people of my age bracket.
That's the chance of infection.
This same idea is used in mask policy and is used with herd immunity calculations and all over epidemiology to be honest.
I'm really sorry that you have to do mental gymnastics to shoehorn this subject into your narrative.
All age groups are equally INFECTIOUS once they have the disease, but are not equally able to BE INFECTED , otherwise people under 55 wouldn't have to wear masks. We wear the mask to protect others right? No matter what our age is.
So why would you reduce the population size to just an age slice?
The same assumption is made when calculating herd immunity. They use the entire populations infectiousness because chance to transmit doesn't change with age but chance to be infected does..
But you DO limit by age group on the infection side because that individuals chance of contracting it from the general population, is based on age/immune system .
Yeah that's exactly the calculation were looking for.
Do you want me to run the numbers for a person under 18?
Trust me it will be drastically less chance of BP from covid than the vaccine.
We would never consider the idea... that an IV drug users chance of getting AIDS
.. is the same chance as the rest of the population.
Yet for some reason people are okay with the idea that a healthy 18 year old has the same chance of negative outcomes from covid as an UNhealthy 75 year old. And that the response should be commensurate.
Very strange to me how we don't differentiate population and lifestyle adjustments to covid statistics.
The problem is that it is federal overreach. I'm fine with doing it on a state by state basis, but this has no business being in the purview of the federal govt.
"If they talk to me long enough, they notice, even six months later, I still have some lingering symptoms of Bell’s Palsy, which I got following my vaccination. I still have to put drops in my right eye every now and then, still have to drink oddly out of only one side of my mouth. I can’t honestly say there isn’t some minor risk, even though I do add and emphasize, “I would have still gotten vaccinated again. Having my risk of death cut down by 10 times is like, huge man. Worth a few eye drops now and then.”
> 19 Bells Palsy per 100 000 vaccine(from paper provided) = 0.00019
> Bells Palsy from COVID in the general poulation
7 million (infected 50 year olds) * .08% (of BP from the paper) = 5600 / 350 million(us population) = 0.000016
Looks like your chances are significantly better NOT getting the vaccine. And it just gets dramatically worse the younger age groups you look at.
This is assuming the vaccine affects every age group similarly which there is conveniently no data on that I could find. But according to the news media it does affect everyone the same.
It's a very interesting co-incidence though don't you think especially in light of this article?
Do you...a person who falsy claims I'm spreading misinformation...think that the news has good intentions overall and always tells the truth to the best of their ability?
This poor guy got bells palsy from the vaccine. And he's healthy 56 years old which is a very low-risk group to begin with. The statistics for a healthy 56 year old dying of C19 are extremely minimal.
A healthy politician in Australia appareny also came down with Bell's palsy recently after getting the vaccine. Victor Dominello.
"If they talk to me long enough, they notice, even six months later, I still have some lingering symptoms of Bell’s Palsy, which I got following my vaccination. I still have to put drops in my right eye every now and then, still have to drink oddly out of only one side of my mouth. I can’t honestly say there isn’t some minor risk, even though I do add and emphasize, “I would have still gotten vaccinated again. Having my risk of death cut down by 10 times is like, huge man. Worth a few eye drops now and then.”
The susceptibility of people to news media fear mongering influencing them to do things directly against their best interest, like injecting experimental medication or the poor voting for less taxes on the rich... will never cease to amaze me. The power of propaganda.
Both are valuable to people.
(regardless of age, sex, race, status, etc)