If someone is willing to accept some small percentage of both non-serious and serious outcomes, then the choice is clear...
Yes, it is... if someone knows and is willing to accept the risks... then they should take the risks, if that makes most sense to them. But, that is still not the same thing as simply accepting the risks and NOT doing anything else to limit risks ? Not getting the jab... doesn't leave you powerless and unable to do anything else to modify your own risks ?
especially because the consequences for the elderly, obese, diabetic, immuno-suppressed, etc., are so drastic.
How drastic are they ? The risks have changed as treatments have improved. Still best to avoid becoming infected, of course... particularly for those in higher risk groups... But, THAT IS NOT HARD TO DO... and it is or it would be particularly easy... if they simply gave people the drugs that they know prevent the virus propagating. But, while that approach contains LESS risk... THERE'S NOT AS MUCH MONEY IN THAT...
That they're not helping as much as they could... while only offering what works less well that makes them more money ? Avoiding what they want... still requires taking action yourself on those things that you need to protect yourself... all the more now, as the vaccine facilitates the virus mutating at a more rapid pace...
Those who are not willing to accept small risks are playing COVID-19 roulette. In my estimation, the chances of getting the disease are significantly higher than the risk of a serious untoward outcome caused by a vaccination.
I think your calculus is WAY off... particularly in relation to what the scale of the risks in being jabbed are... which you are simply assuming "must be small"... or they'd not give you the jab. That's just wrong.
The immediate impacts of the jab are not all small... and the long term impacts of it are not all known... but, it is a known that there are future risks that are not small...
There are both immediate and now becoming better known risks in the first generation of vaccinations... and also potential and potentially very large future risks... which everyone is just ignoring. And that's just wrong.
But, the relative value of the risks taken... also has to be weighed against the potential benefits... and since the benefits don't include "immunity"... and don't include protection against future variants... the value of the benefit is also being oversold... at the same time that the risks are being underplayed...
And, clocks are still ticking... BETTER vaccines "should be" out "soon"... including ones that do confer immunity... and do that broadly protect against any related variant... without the same risks that the current crop carry... But, those might have been slowed down a bit... as a function of the unexpected nature of the issues being encountered in the vaccines that have been given a waiver to be used without approval as experimental drugs. The next generation... are not going to get the waiver... but will have to be approved.
So, also time functions to consider... in relation to current and future risks... but also in relation to current and future vaccines...
Note, also, "the chances of getting the disease are significantly higher"... than the risk of getting the disease causing a serious problem... and that remains true, even among higher risk groups, now... who no longer suffer the same much higher mortality rates as initially in the early stages of the pandemic.
Early treatment if you do get infected... is usually enough to obviate any serious impacts... The risks if you don't seek early treatment... do become much greater. And, if in a high risk group, and you also get care from people who are not willing to do what works... either because they are Christian Scientists... or because, the same thing, they have a fervent and unfounded faith in the judgments of the CDC... declaring that Ivermectin doesn't work ?
Trump got it... he's high risk... also got Ivermectin and said it worked as a curative in less than a day ?
How many of those who died... got Ivermectin on their first day after diagnosis ?
But, I take it that your radical change in opinion... from full on anti-vaxer last year... to seeing no risks worth avoiding in the jab now... has a reason behind it ?
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