Comments by "annoyed aussie" (@annoyedaussie3942) on "'I'm done with Covid!': Journalist gets praise and backlash for late-night comments" video.

You are taking an anecdotal sample of 1, those 10,000 dying each week some will be around the age of your friend who was fine. A death rate of maybe 1% for that age and very sick maybe 20% or whatever just means your friend was in the 80% group, it's not a reason not to be vaccinated. I wear a seatbelt when driving however my risk of crashing and dying is less than covid 19. However a Vaccinated person's risk is 90% less of death according to ones starting risk and does cut the rate of serverly ill significantly.
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But supply shortages are just inconvenience actually, pretty sure just like in Australia there's plenty of food, other goods can wait, you won't die if you have to wait a week or two for that piece of designer clothing and hey not having your favorite cut of meat in the supermarket get over it, buy what's available. Inflation coupled with price gouging which occurs in the US is probably worse on consumer sentiment but that's what you get if the government just keeps pumping the economy with money and loading up government debt. Vaccination is the only answer to stabilize things and the US ranks about 40 or 50th most vaccinated with probably the most vulnerable starting population in the wealthy world.
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I hope you recover quickly, best of luck.
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The evidence from what I understand is in a stable household where a parent has time and not short on money the child can do better , but what happens if it's a single working mum, the child is probably on their own mostly assuming not too young because mum's working and tired when come home. Also the mother might not have a high level of education herself, can hardly be a good teacher then.
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She's vaccinated though, so as long as she has had a third shot she should be ok despite her weight and because she doesn't look too old. The problem is the unvaccinated, doesn't mean things will all of a sudden be perfect but in Australia we likely have similar case rates but deaths are so far , far lower on a per Capita basis.
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That's why your country is in such a mess, too many people won't get vaccinated, it's the only proven way to reduce problems.
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It's somewhat in the hands of the Republican gods. Unfortunately some are not leading and encouraging vaccination, they just saying it's up to you.
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@Icecream_ghost The biggest problem with the new CDC study is it's time constrained as in 90% of those with previous infections had them in the preceding year and it was with Delta variant and we know that catching Omicron is far easier for everyone although less deadly by about 70% it would seem so far. The CDC recommends everyone over 6 months getting the flu vaccine every year and everyone catches the flu in their lives. Australia has the same recommendation but also has a strong recommendation for certain groups, below 5 and above 65 if by age and of course healthcare workers, more vulnerable people etc. Everyone saying that the next variant will be less deadly is just parroting a proven to be flawed theory, if that was the case the flu could kill nobody and there wouldn't be such a thing as a bad flu year because it's been around for 1000s of years, the 1918 flu pandemic was in the end just a mutation coming from an animal they believe and many mammals can get covid 19. Of course I hope the next variant is less deadly and overall it should be due to natural immunity (the weakest and or unvaccinated dying off already and survivors getting increased immunity) and vaccinations but there's no guarantees. The US despite it's higher natural infection rates is having more deaths per Capita than Australia now with much higher vaccination rates but virtually no natural immunity. While our demographics are a little different, obesity rate about 35% in the US versus about 30% in Australia, they are fairly close (Japan has an obesity rate of 6% or so, Sweden 20% as examples). We will have to see what happens in 6 months and it's our winter, maybe things won't look so good then and that's why the US likes to compare to the UK which is doing better now because of their higher vaccination rates. Their demographics from previous infections is probably very similar to the US overall.
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@stevenleonard7219 Just out of curiosity with the different vaccines did you find that the side effects were significantly different? I ask that because I have had two AZ shots but will get either Pfizer or Moderna at some stage, I am 48 male and only just over 3 months since second dose.
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