I get your point from a pure “analytical-cognitive-satisfaction” perspective. But in my case, I’ve been vaccinated with Moderna and I’ve been struggling with my heart for the last two months: Arrhythmia, pain in my chest, excessive strong beating even being sitting down in my sofa, short breath, tiredness even for the most simple physical efforts. I ignored all the symptoms assuming that was something psychosomatic due stress or what not (I even quit caffeine just in case). Two nights ago I woke up at 5 am because my heart was beating so strong and the pain in my chest was massive. I ran to the hospital.
I am a very healthy person: no smoke, sport all my life, take care of nutrition, 0 family related heart issues, took all the precautions for not getting covid nor spread it in case of being asymptomatic , take antigen tests twice per week etc And here I am, freaking praying for the results to be ok, knowing that if not, I’m on my own with the possibility of ending up with a faulty heart that worked like a charm before having to be vaccinated due to extorsion-like strategies from the government and gaslighting and half-truths from media.
So yes, I am sick of being treated like a number.
PS: Please, don’t take this as an attack by any means.
But, if you have no comorbidity, your chance of dying from the covid is extremely low too...
You must also take this into account in your comparison
Isn’t it then a matter of 12.6 in a million with the vaccine or 126 in a million when getting the virus?
(Depending on age/sex)
This leads to a P value of approximately 0.0014, which is well below the 5% threshold.
This is a very crude calculation, but it does give an idea of what we can expect. Given the small P value, there’s a good chance that the HN community has experienced a similar event to the one described in the article.
And I'm still very happy to be vaccinated. I do not at all regret my vaccination. The EV of a covid vaccine was, and is, hugely positive. I drive to work, I've run two marathons, and I've been scuba diving dozens of times. All are riskier, overall, than the vaccine.
Even if 100% of the ~12.6 in a million cases of myocarditis from the vaccine had resulted in death --- which, let's be very clear, they absolutely have not --- it would still be a risk worth taking. Your per year chances of dying from homicide in the US are 3-4 times as high.