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wwinterj25 posted...

My own choice.

"Why did you make that choice?"
"I made that choice."

Good talk.

wwinterj25 posted...

I'm not reading your post that amounts to nothing more then "this is what I believe!".

It amounts to quite a bit more than that, namely "here's the objective basis I have for believing what I believe," which is generally how you determine which beliefs are better. But hey, let's pull out some actual numbers:

Covid 19 deaths in the UK: 126,000
UK population: 66,650,000
Likelihood of dying of Covid just for being a UK citizen: 0.189%
Likelihood of dying of Covid once vaccinated (65%): 0.0662%
Likelihood of dying of Covid once vaccinated (95%): 0.00945%

Covid 19 vaccines administered in the UK: 24,000,000
Deaths *possibly* related to Covid 19 vaccines in the UK: 0
If we pretend that every reported instance of blood clots in all of Europe counts as a vaccine death in the UK: 37
"Vaccine death rate" in "the UK": 0.00000417% (note that this number is at least one order of magnitude higher than the real value)

Notice how the risk from vaccines is several orders of magnitude lower than the risk posed by Covid, even with an extreme assumption that inflates the vaccine risk by a huge amount? You are over 45,000 times more likely to die of Covid just for waking up in the UK tomorrow than you are to suffer a serious complication from any of the vaccines. Reducing those odds by even just 65% still offers far more benefit than risk.

This is not an opinion. These are facts.

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