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by HuwytNashi083 1655 days ago
That's also not counting all the other risks that come with vaccination - including death.

Also that individuals have variable probability of exposure to and infection with the virus, which may be very low, while vaccination carries a 100% 'probability'.

Also that one may reasonably expect to commit to many vaccinations. Australia, where I am, has already financially committed to more than 9 per capita - if they're buying them, I expect they expect to be using them. That's a lot of rolls of the dice.

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Covid-19 has higher rates of death than vaccines too. It’s also highly transmissible. The probability of exposure is very high unless someone is isolating themselves from society entirely.
> That's also not counting all the other risks that come with vaccination - including death.

All of which are one or more orders of magnitude higher [edit s/than/with] with the virus according to the data, which is excellent now that there are over 6.3 billion vaccine doses administered worldwide.

> Also that individuals have variable probability of exposure to and infection with the virus, which may be very low, while vaccination carries a 100% 'probability'.

Covid is not going anywhere. Over time the probability of being exposed to it approaches 1. The only question is do you want to be vaccinated when that happens?

> All of which are one or more orders of magnitude higher than the virus according to the data

I assume you mean lower.

Yes, thank you
Interesting how you completely ignore the risk of an corona infection and totally underestimates the infection risk. The virus will become endemic so the infection risk is near to 100%. Additonally the virus is neurotrope so late effects are possible.
> which may be very low

Looking at the sewage data around here, your low is about 100% as well. There is no place in my country without any exposure so it's just a matter of time.