Vaccinated Americans more likely to die from a lightning strike than Covid
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Re: Vaccinated Americans more likely to die from a lightning strike than Covid
#2In 2021 there were no lightning deaths in the US as of June [0]. This stat compares the lifetime odds of death from lightning [1] to several months of covid data.
0 - https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/06/08/us-weather...
1 - https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/all-injuries/preventable-death-o...
Re: Vaccinated Americans more likely to die from a lightning strike than Covid
#3- 41 lightning deaths per year in the USA [1] out of 328M people. 41/328M = 1.25e-7
- 1,263 covid deaths in the USA out of 163M vaccinated [2]. 1263/163M = 7.75e-6 and it's not even August.
Seems wrong, by more than (vaccinated=1263/163M)/(lightning=41/328M) = 62x. Or am I missing something?
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/06/08/us-weather...
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/bre...
Re: Vaccinated Americans more likely to die from a lightning strike than Covid
#4Unlike me, who is unvaccinated. And in rather have a lighting strike hit me in the head than take that vaccine. 100%.
Re: Vaccinated Americans more likely to die from a lightning strike than Covid
#5Unlike me, who is unvaccinated. And in rather have a lighting strike hit me in the head than take that vaccine. 100%.
What facts do you use to justify that risk calculation to yourself? Or is it more of an “ick” factor?
Re: Vaccinated Americans more likely to die from a lightning strike than Covid
#6In other news, unvaccinated Americans more likely to die from a lightning strike than Covid.
Re: Vaccinated Americans more likely to die from a lightning strike than Covid
#7Unlike me, who is unvaccinated. And in rather have a lighting strike hit me in the head than take that vaccine. 100%.
What facts do you use to justify that risk calculation to yourself? Or is it more of an “ick” factor?
I love how the burden of proof is apparently on the people who don't want to take the highly experimental rushed to market treatment that is making its manufacture (and those in government who are linked to said manufacturers) rich. I swear it only took 5 years to convert everybody from "don't trust the gov" to "blindly trust the government!"
Re: Vaccinated Americans more likely to die from a lightning strike than Covid
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
What facts do you use to justify that risk calculation to yourself? Or is it more of an “ick” factor?
I love how the burden of proof is apparently on the people who don't want to take the highly experimental rushed to market treatment that is making its manufacture (and those in government who are linked to said manufacturers) rich. I swear it only took 5 years to convert everybody from "don't trust the gov" to "blindly trust the government!"
Is Covid a fake virus?
It’s a choice between getting Covid and getting the vaccine. It’s only a matter of time before one gets Covid if one isn’t vaccinated.
The only caveat is with the delta variant and whatever next even more virulent variant comes along due to the mutations that occur as the virus continues to spread freely (due to lack of vaccines induced herd immunity), vaccinated people may get it without a booster. But So far data shows the breakthroughs are hospitalized at just a fraction of the rate as unvaccinated.
In a world where Covid wasn’t doesn’t exist, of course taking the shot makes no sense. But Covid is like getting all the proteins in the shot, plus thousands of extra ones from the live virus trying to infect all your cells.
If one is hesitant of the vaccine, one should be 1000x scared of Covid. All the concerns I’ve heard people express about the shot are 1000x more applicable to actual Covid. That’s what doesn’t make sense to me about the people concerned about the vaccine, if they evaluated Covid consistently it seems that there would be no question of whether to be vaccinated or not.
I’m legitimately confused why people with concerns about the vaccine don’t have the same concerns about Covid, but instead assume the best about Covid while assuming the worst about vaccines. Why do people do that?
Re: Vaccinated Americans more likely to die from a lightning strike than Covid
#9In 2021 there were no lightning deaths in the US as of June [0]. This stat compares the lifetime odds of death from lightning [1] to several months of covid data. 0 - https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/06/08/us-weather... 1 - https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/all-injuries/preventable-death-o...
Yes the author of this article seems not to know statistics very well and is comparing apples to oranges, and why did wapo let it get published with such glaring wrong logic. Being an opinion piece doesn’t mean throw out all standards.
Re: Vaccinated Americans more likely to die from a lightning strike than Covid
#10In 2021 there were no lightning deaths in the US as of June [0]. This stat compares the lifetime odds of death from lightning [1] to several months of covid data. 0 - https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/06/08/us-weather... 1 - https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/all-injuries/preventable-death-o...
Yes the author of this article seems not to know statistics very well and is comparing apples to oranges, and why did wapo let it get published with such glaring wrong logic. Being an opinion piece doesn’t mean throw out all standards.
They're fighting for a righteous cause. It does not matter if people get vaccinated based on slightly misleading statements as long as they get vaccinated.