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People suck at risk assessment and government, media and industry leverage that against us constantly.

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like the math. like the logic. only complaint is: would not refer to the rna shots as "vaccines". experimental drugs more apropos. which would lead to the question: against a disease that has a 99.9%+ survival rate in healthy people and has only 0.7% secondary attack rate from asymptomatic carriers that live in your house, why would one rush to receive a rna shot?

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Neither the media or the general population has needed to understand eighth grade math to survive and prosper.

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Can I steal this? ! Love it!

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one cannot steal that which was given freely.

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That 95% number is oddly worded to me. When I looked at the pfizer data, I see vaccine: 8/18198 = 0.04% vs placebo: 162/18325 = 0.88%. So, yes it is true that 95% of the people that came down with a mild symptom were in the placebo group. But it also says that the placebo group only had a 0.88% chance of getting a mild symptom in the first place. Right?

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it's a measure of relative incidence. (active/placebo) if the point is that incidence was incredibly low overall and that skewed perf high, then yes, i think one could make such an argument, esp when comparing to other vax trails at different times with different protocols but that is the number the FDA sanctioned.

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Canadian viral immunologist Byram Bridle explains in an interview that the 95% figure is incorrect. “There were large numbers of suspected, but unconfirmed cases that were excluded from their calculation of efficacy.” This was revealed in a report by the FDA. Re-analysis was performed by an associate editor of the British Medical Journal. New estimate is 19-29% effectiveness pending release of raw data. Source: https://odysee.com/@Dryburgh:7/byram-bridle-coronavirus-vaccine-concerns:9?src=open&r=GXeCW6HWaKb1wtFgfUW95qquG1m1SHiV

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I never considered I could die from the flu (prolly should have) but I got my shot every year because I didn't like getting the runs and not wanting to get out of bed. for a week. Standing next to a stranger at a 'gathering' here in Florida likely means that in getting to the event, he never used his turn signals, came to a screaching halt 6" from the intersection after blowing past the stop sign at 10mph, and if he is coughing and doesn't feel good, thinks you should feel sorry for him.

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