How COVID-19 is affecting society

[Archer]

True, though your chance of dying goes down to almost zero.

I wish folks would stop saying this. "Almost" zero is NOT the same as zero, but most people don't hear that. All they focus on is the zero part and assume they will not die. Worse than that, when they hear of someone fully vaccinated that gets Covid and then dies, they start saying the vaccines don't work, so why go through the hassle of getting them. I've had this conversation so many times it's very frustrating. We have to be more careful with phrasing. Much better to say, your chances of surviving Covid are much better if you're fully vaccinated.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I wish folks would stop saying this. "Almost" zero is NOT the same as zero, but most people don't hear that. All they focus on is the zero part and assume they will not die. Worse than that, when they hear of someone fully vaccinated that gets Covid and then dies, they start saying the vaccines don't work, so why go through the hassle of getting them. I've had this conversation so many times it's very frustrating. We have to be more careful with phrasing. Much better to say, your chances of surviving Covid are much better if you're fully vaccinated.

If you're wearing a seatbelt and your car is fitted with an airbag, your chances in a crash are far better than they would otherwise be, or if you're wearing a helmet and protective leathers on a motorbike.

But nevertheless, it's still prudent to drive cautiously and keep an eye on the road.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

As Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak celebrate "Freedom Day" in self-isolation, after Sajid Javid tested positive, British public attitudes to ending lockdown:

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[Innula Zenovka]

Scrapping self-isolation rules earlier for the fully vaccinated, as Blair among others have suggested, risks infections soaring even higher, but keeping them might mean businesses and services collapsing. “The problem is we don’t know what to do,” an anonymous minister explained to the Mail on Sunday at the weekend. Well, that much is obvious.

Evernote link because I feel like it

 

[Romana]

Evernote link because I feel like it

It really is uncanny how much he's like TFG. He can speak better, but that seems to be it.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

It really is uncanny how much he's like TFG. He can speak better, but that seems to be it.

Someone (I think it was The Guardian's Zoe Willams) once memorably described Johnson as "Cabbage Patch Draco Malfoy."

 

[Sid]

I always wonder how it is possible, that someone who isn't even capable to manage to get a halfway decent haircut, is allowed to manage a countries government.

 

[Essence Lumin]

I wish folks would stop saying this. "Almost" zero is NOT the same as zero, but most people don't hear that. All they focus on is the zero part and assume they will not die. Worse than that, when they hear of someone fully vaccinated that gets Covid and then dies, they start saying the vaccines don't work, so why go through the hassle of getting them. I've had this conversation so many times it's very frustrating. We have to be more careful with phrasing. Much better to say, your chances of surviving Covid are much better if you're fully vaccinated.

At some point "almost zero" becomes valid in my opinion. In the show Dead Like Me, Georgia gets killed by a toilet seat falling from the Russian Mir satellite. The chances of that happening are almost zero. The number of people who die after being vaccinated is not that low but is about 1 / 400,000 people so far this year (328,000,000 / 750). By comparison, 1 / 138,000 people are killed by lightning each year.

CDC says roughly 4,100 people have been hospitalized or died with Covid breakthrough infections after vaccination

At least 750 fully vaccinated people have died after contracting Covid but the CDC noted that 142 of those fatalities were asymptomatic or unrelated to Covid.

www.cnbc.com

Odds of Dying - Injury Facts

Knowing the odds of dying is the first step in beating them. New 2021 data shows the risks from plane crashes, guns, falls and more.

injuryfacts.nsc.org

 

[Free]

At some point "almost zero" becomes valid in my opinion.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Beebo Brink]

At some point "almost zero" becomes valid in my opinion.

You're missing the point. While you may be factually correct, that particular phrase has a disproportionately emotional connotation that undermines the message.

 

[Beebo Brink]

 

[Cindy Claveau]

I wasn't already ashamed of my country enough.

 

[Beebo Brink]

 

[Cindy Claveau]

1 in 5 Americans think there's a tracking chip in the vaccines. 5 out of 5 of them already carry cell phones in their pockets.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Well, that didn't take long.


Evernote link because reasons

This means they've taken the decision over the weekend and only confirmed it today, the day controls were finally lifted, to the trepidation of most of the country.

Hardly looks like a government in control of much, but that's nothing new.

"Take back control"? More like "Get a grip".

 

[Sid]

I must say I liked the direct connection possibilities with Bill Gates after the second jab and my WIFI improved somewhat, but Bill is constantly whining about his divorce lately. They should have programmed a shut up button in that chip.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Spirits Rising]

You're missing the point. While you may be factually correct, that particular phrase has a disproportionately emotional connotation that undermines the message.

That's nice.

That dis proportionally emotional response needs to be forcefully beaten out of the general populace. If you're incapable of seeing the difference between actual zero and "almost" zero (meaning a non-zero) .... That's your own fucking problem.