Originally Posted by
Desdi
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-58680204
Let’s translate the headline: 2/3s of infections are amongst the vaccinated….. and the UK has been consistently 2 months ahead of us through this thing. It will be interesting to see how they change narratives here IF the same thing happens here!
In fairness, if you vaccinate a sufficient number of people, ALL the ones becoming infected will be the vaccinated, if only because they are the only ones left. But people need to look into the demographics behind the homilies. It’s like saying ANYBODY CAN BECOME INFECTED WITH HIV which is absolutely true but in no way adequately describes who DOES get infected with HIV, and by rate that is OVERWHELMINGLY gay and bisexual males. That’s not gay bashing, merely reporting facts:
https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pdf/group/msm/cdc-hiv-msm.pdf
Similarly, Anybody CAN become infected and die with COVID-19, but the people who do are OVERWHELMINGLY the aged, and while immunizations improve those odds, they don’t stop elderly people - immunized or not - from getting sick and dying of COVID.
Age alone is such a huge attributable risk that even all the comorbidities pale in comparison and, yeah, anyone CAN die of COVID but COVID deaths in those under 18 literally get lost in the noise. And for those 18-30, it is scarcely much worse.
Nuance matters. As a society we are paying a huge price to try to keep the elderly from dying. That is reality. More kids are going to die of a whole lot of other things, like influenza, respiratory syncytial virus, bicycle accidents, drowning in swimming pools, etc., than are ever going to die of COVID.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/th...ion/ar-AAOSvNp