Quote (tugofpeace @ 7 Feb 2022 06:34)
If the overall population has a survival rate of 99.7% or so, what benefit are the vaccines providing in terms of increasing that survival rate? Is it not a logical inconsistency for someone who survived the virus to say they're glad they got vaccinated, when they had a 99.7% chance of survival to begin with?
Life expectancy is around 80 years, so as a very rough approximation, we can assume about 1/80 = 1.25% of the population to die each year. Increasing this by 0.3% would actually represent quite a substantial increase in mortality. Also, when hospitals get swamped, we can safely assume that quality of care goes down and survival rates with them.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Feb 7 2022 12:30am