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Mead posted...

I dont agree with this. I think everyone that is able to do so should get the vaccine. But even if they didnt I dont think that mistake should mean they cant seek out help if they need it.

And beyond the basic humanitarian questions (which also extends into long-term financial savings because people are less likely to be permanently disabled if they seek treatment), unvaccinated people being hospitalized creates statistics that could potentially motivate hold-outs. People dying quietly at home hides the severity of the disease and keeps people complacent.

Reigning_King posted...

Good thing covid is so mild most people never have to go to the hospital in the first place, if they even realize they have it at all.

Which offers higher DPS?

1. 400 damage per hit, 0.1 attacks per second
2. 5 damage per hit, 35 attacks per second

The math is pretty easy: Your individual hits are quite weak with option 2, but because you're attacking so often, you still end up doing more overall damage. Similarly, individual Covid infections aren't likely to be bad, but because there are so many infections, the overall number of serious infections and deaths is much higher than it would be for a disease with a higher mortality rate that is less virulent (see: The 2014 Ebola outbreak, which had a ~40% CFR but only killed 12,000 people globally in 2.5 years).

People love to fixate on Covid's low mortality rate as though that means it's not a big deal. The personal risk for any given case is very low, but it is a massive public health problem.

Blow_My_Mind posted...

Okay I agree, but only once its FDA approved.

All vaccines available in the US are FDA approved. If they weren't, they wouldn't be available in the US.

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