What you really want is an effective treatment the patient isn’t responsible for.
What we have is a very effective prevention and treatment that the patient must be responsible for.
What do I mean? Most people have treated serious illness as something that happens to them that is out of their control. Any medicine or treatment required to combat the illness is again something they do not control. It’s a choice made by the medical community.
If the disease or treatment ends negatively at no point would most people feel they had a choice in the matter and therefore aren’t responsible for the outcome.
Taking a vaccine on the other hand means you definitely made a choice When you did you were healthy and now YOU took the risk that the vaccine might make you sick for a benefit that only occurs if you eventually get sick AND if it protects you.
For many people it make sense to avoid taking the responsibility of choosing the vaccine. Most people are horribly ignorant when it comes to judging risks too
When you take the current numbers you come up with the following risk likelihood’s:
- Chance of death from Covid if unvaccinated = 1/61
- Chance of hospitalization from COVID if unvaccinated = 1/14.5
- Chance of death from COVID if vaccinated = 1/18,800
- Chance of hospitalization from COVID if vaccinated = 1/4300
- Chance of death after receiving a COVID vaccine for any reason including COVID = 1/52,600
But I might not catch COVID. If I don’t my chance of hospitalization or death is 0 unless I take a vaccine then my risk is higher - someone ignorant might say.
The delta variant is as transmissible as Chicken Pox. Until the chicken pox vaccine 95% of people caught it by 18 years old. It’s unlikely you know anyone who reached 18 before the vaccine came out that didn’t have it except for me.
Without the proven mitigations of masks, distancing, and vaccines the chance of catching COVID is about 100% . Then the risks above are the ones everyone will face.
Actual COVID treatments like, regeneron, dexamethasone, and tocilizumab reduce your chance of death by 5-33% depending on circumstances. A COVID Vaccine reduces your chance of death by 30,700%.
With all due respect but waiting for an effective treatment in place of masks and vaccines is deciding to risk death from this disease.