04-14-2021, 10:47 AM
(04-14-2021, 10:23 AM)rupe Wrote: "Dealing with a similar situation just this past week, and kind of went to my old stand by: You are free to make your own choices for yourself, just don't insist that others have to bear the burdens of your choices."
Wow that seems hypocritical. If you want the vaccine take it for yourself. If people fear an illness for a 99.997% survival rate they can get a experimental vaccine and should. Healthy people should not be forced to take an emergency experimental vaccine. Kids should not be forced to. YOU are free to make your own choices for yourself, just don't insist that others have to bear the burdens of your choices...
Very good point here. Not too mention, if people get the vaccine, then they should not worry about who else has it because technically they are protected anyway, right? One of my sisters is freaking out about this whole thing. She wants to have a family get together at her brand new house but wants everyone to be vaccinated first. It's not sitting well with most the family, who many have already recovered from covid, including the elderly in the family.
You have to wonder if in the beginning of all this, if they didn't put infected people in nursing homes around a bunch of elderly with medical conditions, how much lower the 70 and over group would be.
CDC survival rates per age group:
0-19: 99.997%
20-49: 99.98%
50-69: 99.5%
70 & over: 94.6%
