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In reply to the discussion: I cannot help feeling this way. The CDC under Biden has just screwn [View all]Ms. Toad
(38,598 posts)The data was acquired with mitigation in effect, for the most part - people wearing masks, social distancing, not gathering together indoors.
As the mitigation is removed, everyone (including those who are vaccinated) will be exposed to increasing contacts that are capable of causing COVID. A 4000% reduction of risk sounds nice, but the risk is still there and the CDC essentially authorized a dramatic numerical increase in the numbers of vaccinated people (and others) who will be infected by COVID by dramatically increasing the number of interactions capable of causing COVID. More will die, more will be hospitalized, and more will have permanent or long-term disabilities.
.0006 (risk of an mRNA vaccinated person contracting COVID and dying based on May 3 data) x a small number of potentially COVID-causing contacts is pretty irrelevant. But when you increase the number of potentially COVID-causing contacts, by removing community mitigation, at some point you create a lot of sick people who are needlessly contracting COVID and dying. If each of us who is vaccinated is exposed because no one is mitigating, that's 250,000 cases of COVID, 22,500 hospitalized, and 3,000 dead - and a significant number with heart damage. The vast majority of those are preventable with community mitigation.