(08-19-2022, 08:55 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote: [ -> ] (08-19-2022, 08:37 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote: [ -> ]...says the guy who can't provide any real data. None of those statistics give us any information that is useful. We know the first wave of Covid and Omicron killed people across all age groups. Am I suggesting otherwise?
What we don't know is the degree that the vaccine actually helped healthy, young adults. Stop pretending like I'm some kind of conspiracy theorist and just admit you can't give that data because it doesn't exist. Which is why you are reduced to snark. It should be easy to show me. It's a simple request.
Not one thing you're saying has anything to do with what I said. You're so intent on discrediting the government, Big Pharm, and health care in general that you fail to see my point. I have not said one thing about the vaccine, the unvaccinated, treatments, or anything else. I merely said that as a person who contracted it and came through it ok you might consider that you are fortunate because many others did not. For some reason you've turned that into another pissing contest about your platform just so you can say "It wasn't gonna kill me anyway." Then when I say, well, it sure killed a bunch of other people like you so you gotta start with this "SHOW ME THE NUMBERS" crap. Then I show you JAMA and it's "THAT'S NOT REAL DATA!!!" and I am just not trying to be in an endless competition with you.
I didn't say it's not real data. I said it was misleading data, especially as it pertains to our discussion. More appropriately, it's meaningless data. It doesn't address anything we are talking about except to show that certain people die from this disease. I AM NOT SUGGESTING OTHERWISE. However, I don't fall into a high-risk group, and neither do most living humans. As far as I know, HB doesn't fall into that category, either.
Do young, healthy people die? Sure, but it's really, really rare... at least .02%, and that's with bad data. Young people with comorbidities die at a higher rate, especially those who are overweight with other complications. The vaccine probably helps with that. Old people die, especially ones with comorbidities. The vaccine probably helps with that. How much does the vaccine help young, healthy people with no comorbidities? You can't tell me. You don't know. We SHOULD know, but we don't. They haven't collected that data, or, if they have, they haven't released it.
Also, stop pretending like your comment was based in genuine existentialism. It wasn't. It's a snarky comment that is trying to suggest that I'm lucky. I'm not. The statistics don't even come close to suggesting that a young, healthy person should be afraid of Covid. Do you thank your lucky stars every time you make it home from shooting your firearm or going hunting? Would you give someone the time of day if they suggested you should reflect on your good fortune for making it home alive? What if you asked for statistics to show why you should be concerned about getting shot at a gun range, and they posted data showing the total number of gun suicides. Lol. That's you.
You have seen first-hand the devastating affects this has had on an at-risk population, and you've seen a few young, healthy people thrown in the mix, and your brain can't disassociate. You are emotionally involved. That's all. Sorry you've had to endure that, but you should be with me, demanding actual good data from our government, not just drinking the Kool-Aid because you've had to watch a lot of people at the hospital die.
I am not in competition with you, btw. I just think you aren't rational in this area, and I'm not going to back down to your rhetoric.