The GOP is a Death Cult.

"In 2024 what was % deaths by age?"

What percentage is too much for you?
Any percentage is okay with you!

Guns is the leading cause of death for children, and you love the Second Amendment.

"You really think the covid vaccine will save that many lives in the cohorts with the least risk?"

How many lives?

Where's the cutoff point where it's worth saving lives.

I asked that before and you didn't answer.

You didn't answer because COVID could kill a million Americans and you'd still argue the vaccine is worse than the disease. That's what happened and that's what you're doing in this thread.

"In a world of finite resources we make medical decisions based cost and effectiveness."

Vaccines are the lowest cost highest effectiveness medical intervention that's ever been invented.

Stop the Dem panic, the plannedDemic is over.
#18 | Posted by visitor_

Ok You're not taking any precautions against covid and aren't serious, just taking a piss. Got it.
#30 | Posted by visitor_

Sounds like visitor_ and visitor_ have a lot to talk about.

I hope you get things sorted out between the two of you!

"Sorry Sally, the current Covid variants just aren't that harmful unless you're in one of the high risk groups."

^
Now tell us about future variants.

You mean you don't know?

Then how did you make the claim that variants just aren't that harmful?

You looked at what CDC data.

You trust the CDC data that was collected under four years of George Soros secretly running the country, am I reading that right?

Those recommendations are clearly insane and influenced by the Dem panic/planned demic.

^
That's Trump's guidance!

WASHINGTON " The Trump administration engaged in "deliberate efforts" to undermine the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic for political purposes, a congressional report released Friday concludes.

The report, prepared by the House select subcommittee investigating the nation's Covid response, says the White House repeatedly overruled public health and testing guidance by the nation's top infectious disease experts and silenced officials in order to promote then-President Donald Trump's political agenda.

Are you up to date on your boosters, mask in public, practice social distancing or is this just performative on your part?
#44 | Posted by visitor_

What's the current CDC guidance?

Is being up to date the current guidance, visitor_?
Is mask in public the current guidance, visitor_?
Is social distancing the current guidance, visitor_?

Little bitch just runs away.

#54 He meant routine screening for breast cancer in males.

He works somewhere that's health care related and that's why he has certain facts correct.

Unfortunately, when it comes to everything else, he's in the "Groomed To Be A Victim Of Democrats" Trump Cult.

Where's the CDC data?
Still Googling?

"Mammograms are given to men when they have symptoms or risk factors. Not on a routine schedule like they are for women."

A routine schedule, you say.
Like we used to have for COVID...

So how many women actually die from breast cancer?
And how's it compare to COVID?

Run the numbers and tell me if we should stop routine screening all women over 40.

Like you ran the numbers and saw we should stop routine COVID vaccines for people under 65.

You can do advances biostatistics with your high school education, right?

Impress me, you dumb little ------ bitch.

"#48 I just wanted to assess if your fear of Covid (unfounded as it may be) was real"

And I wanted to assess if your knowledge of CDC guidance was real.

You didn't disappoint in having no clue.

"You will see risk is low"

Risk of what?
Risk is low compared to what?

You don't know what you're talking about.

For it to not be worth it to do the vaccine:

Is saying the risk from the vaccine itself outweighs the inceased risk of getting COVID because you're not vaccinated.

Show the math which supports that reasoning.
Or feel free to say that's not what you're really arguing.
Tell us how I'm getting it wrong.

I bet you can't do any of that.
Not with your education!

We screen for breast cancer to prevent deaths.
#68 | Posted by visitor_

Why do we give COVID vaccines?

"You will see risk is low"

You will also see the risk is a whole lot lower when you are actually vaccinated!

You know the vaccine doesn't provide 100% protection from covid don't you? Maybe you don't and then your arguments make more sense.
#73 | Posted by visitor_

You know that unvaccinated patients were 2.46 times more likely to die from COVID-19 don't you? Maybe you don't and then your arguments make more sense.

Screening works, why not screen everybody every day? You don't seem to understand the concept of cost/benefit and diminishing returns. You may have an advanced degree, but your education is still lacking.
#79 | Posted by visitor

Nobody is suggesting giving a COVID shot every day.
Your brain has given up.
Your emotions are doing the "thinking" for you now.
Yon people never learned to control your emotions.

"#78 If you buy two lottery tickets"

^
You're selling lottery tickets where the "prize" is death.

If you buy two lottery tickets your chances of winning are 200% higher than if you buy only one. But not that much higher someone that buys none.
#83 | Posted by visitor

Which is totally unlike COVID vaccines.
Not having a COVID vaccine makes you 2.46 times more likely to die from COVID.

What's the point where that risk becomes negligible? 1.5 times more likely to die? 1.1 times more likely to die?
And what about all the non-fatal risks like long COVID, lost wages, etc.

The reason you don't have an answer is because you never thought about those questions until I brought them up.

It's funny how I said "Impress me, you dumb little ------ bitch" and GracieAmazed chirps up.

You 2.46 number is based on current Covid variants?
#88 | Posted by visitor_

The issue here is what's your number?
You said COVID variants "just aren't that harmful."
But what's your number?

You. Don't. Have. One.

Also, you claimed "just aren't that harmful" but your only measured endpoint seems to be "death." So there's a lot of harm you're simply ignoring. Harm that matters a lot to people who don't die from COVID, which is most people.

"Risk of death from covid is going down"

The risk goes down more when you're vaccinated.
Why can't you acknowledge that?
What's the problem?

"You got a five point restraint harness and rollbar in your Subaru?"
I would if I was gonna drive it in conditions where that's appropriate.

"I do agree that the current mutations of the COVID virus have shown a less severe death result from infection."

True, but still not a good reason to not get vaccinated.

Fun fact, it was predicted at the outset that mutations would decrease the lethality of COVID. For reasons that relate to molecular evolution and natural selection.

Risk of death from covid is going down and so are vacination rates. Only 30% of healthcare workers are following CDC guidlines. Covid is over.
#94 | Posted by visitor_

When you start by citing CDC, it looks bad when you go off the Res and contradict CDC.
Rt for COVID is currently just over 1, meaning it's ever so slightly growing.

Visitor meant a 200% chance, not a 200% increased chance for a total of a 300% chance.

Just like Visitor meant we don't do routine scanning mammograms on men, not we don't ever do mammograms on men.

Percents are just awful. If a process has a two percent yield per ton and you double the yield, you might say hooray, I'm twice as efficient. Meanwhile, you also have 96 tons of waste instead of 98 tons of waste. Which isn't much of a difference. Unless you just dump it in the ocean like Capitalism says it's okay to do since there's no external cost other than putting it on a boat.

Help me out with one thing, visitor_.
Why work in health care, if you do not like people or agree with helping people?
If you're not a people person, maybe don't get into a business that literally everyone needs... Or is it so you can torture them.

"Is 1 greater than 0.999... repeating?"

Those are equal.

More importantly, you can't do anything important in math if they aren't equal.

If you buy one lottery ticket, your chances of winning are infinitely higher than if you buy none."

#112 | Posted by visitor_

They're higher, but wouldn't you say the person who buys two tickets is twice as infinitely higher?

Certainly having two tickets is double the chances of hanging just one ticket.

This is why you should have studied formal math!!