[dwaltrip]

For crying out loud… Go look up the frickin statistics. The vaccines are very effective.

[spurgu]

Really?

See https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/vaccine-effectivenes...

Those "frickin" statistics? Or which ones?

[dwaltrip]

From own your link:

> [The] vaccines likely (and evidence shows they) still have great protection against severe disease; …

This exactly what we were talking about above.

[spurgu]

Like 15% effective, after 2 jabs, for me personally?

[ceejayoz]

On a personal level it's gonna be either 100% or 0%. You either got severe disease, or you didn't.

You can't extrapolate a population-level percentage from a single data point. Luckily, we've got information on hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of hospitalizations, and billions of shots.

[spurgu]

That doesn't make any sense. If the immune response didn't wane on a personal level we wouldn't be needing any boosters.

[ceejayoz]

You can't get 15% of a case of severe COVID. At a personal level, the vaccine either worked at preventing it, or it didn't. We can compute a population-level probability of those two scenarios for you, but you can't really say "15% effective, after 2 jabs, for me personally".