Here you go.
Read this. Now I’ve previously shared multiple peer reviewed articles with you. On here and via PM and you’re giving the impression of not reading any of them. If you’re going to pretend to be open-minded and curious then you really need to do us all a favour and actually make an effort to read the evidence you keep asking for.
This study uses age-specific COVID-19-associated death data from 45 countries and the results of 22 seroprevalence studies to investigate the consistency of infection and fatality patterns across multiple countries. This is
seriously robust data.
Here’s the most relevant graph (although, obviously, you need to read the full article to understand it properly).
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2918-0/figures/2
These are infection fatality rates. The IFR is the most conservative possible way to assess mortality. Case fatality rates (CFR) can overestimate mortality because they don’t consider asymptomatic cases or cases so mild they don’t go and get tested.
As you can see from the graph you chance of being killed outright by covid is about 1 in 10000 from the age of about 20. This increases to about 1 in 1000 by the age of 40. And so on. That’s the risk you take if you choose immunity via infection. And that’s just using death as an end point. Not considering hospitalisation (which is absolutely fecking miserable, believe me) or long covid, or even shitty but minor consequences like permanently losing or altering your sense of taste or smell.
Can you imagine how absolutely fecked the world would be if vaccines killed 1 in 1000 of all the 40 year old who got them? Or how about putting much higher numbers than that in hospital? Or leaving them feeling like shit for months and years afterwards? Or permanently messing with taste/smell?
Well you can only imagine because the vaccines would never have been licensed if they were as damaging to your health as covid. Having been licensed, extensive follow up surveillance in millions and millions of people have confirmed they are absolutely fecking MILES safer than infection with covid. And we may still be waiting for the really long term safety data but we’re also waiting for the long term data on infection with the
novel coronavirus SARS-COV-2 (and we already now that there are definite medium term adverse effects thanks to the millions of people suffering with long covid)
To prattle on about preprints which show that covid infection
might have slightly increased duration of effect than vaccines (assuming nobody ever gets vaccine boosters) as a reason to choose this method of immunity over vaccination is so spectacularly wrong-headed I find myself repeatedly wondering if you really are entering this discussion as open-minded as you claim to be.
And now I’m annoyed at myself for replying to you again….
