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In reply to the discussion: This woman is ON FIRE!!! She knows her numbers!! [View all]Ms. Toad
(33,915 posts)I'm taling about the influence such unrealistic minimization of the real risks has on the behavior of people who are vaccinated. Until the vaccination rates go up and the infection rates go down, it needs to be mask up + vax up.
My beef is with misrepresenting the actual risk of getting COVID - which many vaccinated people (including on DU) are using to justify tossing the mask.
A snapshot of the past is not predictive of the future - especially because the way she is calculating numbers is neither an accurate snapshot of the past, nor a realistic comparison of the risk of the risk to vaccinated individuals v. unvaccinated individuals.
Within the last day I have heard:
Why test? She's vaccinated isn't she? (She tested positive this morning)
It's just allergies, since I'm vaccinated. Wrong.
It's just a cold, since I'm vaccinated. Wrong again.
Why wear a mask? there's a .0003% chance of getting COVID if you're vaccinated
It's rare to get a breakthrough case. Wrong.
We need to stop unrealisticlly minimizing the risk of getting a breakthrough COVID case, because even if the case is mild we are every bit as contagious as an unvaccinated person for the first 5 days of the infection which, incidentally, coincides with the period in which we are most likely to believe it is just a cold, or allergies - especially when we are repeatedtly told that the chances of us getting COVID are astronomically low. They're not - and I can list at least 2 dozen folks I know who prove those statistics wrong (none of whom are in the CDC database because the CDC stopped tracking them).