05 Jan 22
@sh76 saidOr maybe without the vax you'll have permanent respiratory damage but survive.
Vaccines are great. Mask mandates are essentially useless (looks at mask-mandated New York City's nation-leading Omicron surge). Lockdowns aren't happening anywhere (unless you call school closures lockdowns, in which case they're happening in a handful of places, but also have almost no effect on COVID spread).
Vaccines certainly help, but given that 99.7% of people who get ...[text shortened]... 3-day cold. That difference is hard to quantify, but it's a good enough reason for me to vaccinate.
06 Jan 22
@vivify saidVirusses tend to spread faster and easier in crowded places. So, large cities will tend to have higher rates of infection than rural areas.
Regardless of politics, if one group of people frequently do the exact opposite of what medical experts tell them during a pandemic, you could expect that group to be more affected, right?
Given the highly contagious nature of Covid, you'd a expect a huge difference in deaths between groups who follow medical experts and groups who frequently disregard them. But then again, I doubt hospitals are asking for political affiliation when someone is rushed to the hospital.
Other than that, these are the stats for US corona-related deaths:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covid19-death-rates-us-by-state/
Mississippi and Alabama have the highest death rates per 100 inhabitants.
06 Jan 22
@shavixmir saidAnd just by coincidence, they also have the highest obesity rates.
Mississippi and Alabama have the highest death rates per 100 inhabitants.
06 Jan 22
@sonhouse saidOne million out of how many?
@Eladar
I guess you will still be this flippant when the deaths go over one million.
800,000 dead is not enough to even raise an eyebrow for someone as worthless as you.
Death is part of life, good luck escaping death.
Heart disease and cancer kill more people than covid. I am sure if you continue to count total deaths from a virus for enough years you will get a million.
09 Jan 22
@Earl-of-Trumps
And the fact that mandates follow the science and will result in less deaths means nothing to your so-called conservative "values''.
09 Jan 22
@eladar saidIf so, why is EVERY SINGLE COUNTRY taking roughly the same sort of precautions, and measures. Why is EVERY SINGLE EXPERT (virologists, health centres, hospitals, etc.) all generating roughly the same sort of data?
Fact is that the proportion of deaths due to covid is much lower than most believe.
Almost everyone lives if they get covid even without a vaccine.
The small proportion of people who die are made poster children and the hysteria results.
Do you know how absurd you sound?
@sh76 saidAlabama and Mississippi also have the two lowest vaccination rates:
And just by coincidence, they also have the highest obesity rates.
https://www.newsweek.com/these-5-states-have-lowest-vaccination-rates-highest-covid-cases-1615708
You've proven you know how to make sound arguments; so blaming their high Covid death rates on "obesity" seems like a deliberate attempt to mislead.
09 Jan 22
@shavixmir saidEvery single government is tied to big pharm and run by corrupt paid off individuals. The experts are making money on the vaccines.
If so, why is EVERY SINGLE COUNTRY taking roughly the same sort of precautions, and measures. Why is EVERY SINGLE EXPERT (virologists, health centres, hospitals, etc.) all generating roughly the same sort of data?
Do you know how absurd you sound?
