Sooner or later, the vast majority of unvaccinated young adults will be infected with Covid

[Jim G.]

https://app.hedgeye.com/insights/102868-long-covid-casts-a-long-shadow?with_category=17-insights

The dominant reason young adults offer for not getting vaccinated is their worries about vaccine side-effects.

Young adults often perceive the risk of vaccine side effects to be large compared to the danger they face from Covid-19 itself.

True enough: The young adult's risk of dying from Covid-19 is very small--though it's not nearly so small as the risk of dying from the vaccine, which is statistically indistinguishable from zero.

The young-adult risk of suffering from Long Covid, on the other hand, is quite substantial.

And once they are infected, as we have seen, their odds of incurring Long Covid are somewhere in the range of 2 in ten to 3 in ten. The odds of a serious or long-term side effect from the vaccine by contrast is 2 or 20 or (at the outside) perhaps 200 per million. That makes the vaccine roughly 100,000X to (at worst) 1,000X less risky than Covid-19.

What's more--and this is ironic--the young are actually more likely than the old to suffer from the Long Covid syndromes that are most similar to the vaccine side effects that they most fear.

~more at link

[nycbos]

1. So do we do.to correct that misinformation?

[BeckyDem]

2. Horrifying.

I was so thrilled when my husband and I received our vaccine shots. We celebrated and could not wait until our daughter and son could come safely home to visit in June. We had not been together in over a year. They are 28 and 35 years old, and I can't imagine having to explain to them why they need the vaccine.

[bluedevil4]

3. That's a

scary thought. Fortunately my son is vaccinated. I worried about him prior to his vaccination

[ananda]

4. I'm very old and all I got was a sore arm mainly.

These kids are either stupid or badly misinformed
or both.

[uponit7771]

5. The figure I saw was 1 in 10 where do they get 2 or 3 and 10 from?

[Jim G.]

6. This Is What's Cited In The Article...

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/covid-vaccine-side-effects-coronavirus-myocarditis

Honestly I haven't looked at any of the other links in the article either. There are quite a few.

[Skittles]

7. it's a good way to explain it to them

much like they fear living with a head injury more than they fear death when talking about being a responsible driver