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Originally Posted by nfotiu
A few unrelated points:
1) Bad math, it is really .01%.
2) Comparing it to highway deaths does not make it sound like a small number. Dying in a car crash is really about the most realistic chance a young healthy person has of dying. If 400 otherwhise healthy Albertans died of this, this year, that is a pretty big tragedy, I'd say.
3) All this talk of selfish... wouldn't you only be killing other selfish people who didn't get the vaccine? Wouldn't the less selfish thing to do is not get one until all the high risk group people get them?
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Since the vaccine doesn't guarantee that you will become immune (I think it is a 90% probability if you get the one with the adjucant) then even if you have done everything you can do you may still get it. But if a significant portion of the population gets immunized then even if your immunization didn't "work" there is a good chance the immunity of everyone else will prevent the virus from getting to you (it is called herd immunity, and I believe you need 70% of the population or greater to be immunized).
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