| > I don't know if you read your link, but it makes my point perfectly By directly contradicting you? No, I don't think I've misread it, I think you saw a few key words and decided you were right all along. > It seems clear to me that if it wasn't for the unprecedented manner by which these deaths were attributed, the pandemic would have been indistinguishable from a bad flu season. It's about six or seven times worse than influenza, and influenza is only tolerated because of the human tenancy to treat bad things we grew up with as inevitable. > And that's why they have objectively failed. You don't account for incompetent or corrupt authorities The authorities generally agreeing with each other does this for me. They do not have a reason to cooperate in a conspiracy, several are of nations actively at war with each other. > The risk of the vaccine is not zero, Absolutist attitudes are a common cognitive bias, but an unhelpful and unhealthy one. "Zero risk"? That's not how reality works. And furthermore… > and for certain groups, ie. Young men, is quite significant (and no, not exceeded by covid). … are you familiar with the difference between "statistically significant" and "large"? The graphs in what you linked to are showing that the big spike in cases peaks at… 10 extra acute coronary syndrome calls per week, and 3 extra cardiac arrest calls per week. The COVID IFR for men between 20 and 24 is 0.008%, and between 25-39 is 0.017% so I'm going to approximate the average for 18-31 as the mean of those because I don't have the actual number. The male population of Israel in that age range is about 780k, which means that without vaccination the disease would have killed about 97.5 Israeli men in that age range. Versus the literally dozens you're citing as a reason to be terrified. |