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Originally Posted by Swoop
Interesting that you chose the
Polio vaccine as an example. Polio effected everyone equally regardless of age or health. The Corona virus mainly impacts overweight people with preexisting health conditions. AIDS killed 700,000 Americans. If they had introduced an AIDS vaccine, would you have taken it?
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Any chance at all you have a source for that 700,000 number?
According to
Our World in Data, The US saw 511,000 deaths from AIDS between 1990 and 2017. The peak was 45,000 in 1995 and since 2014 the number has been about 7,000 per year. (Note: CDC information says 15,820 people diagnosed with HIV died in 2018 but is careful to say this is the number of deaths from any cause and not necessarily AIDS)
Compare that with a solid 400,000 in ONE YEAR ALONE for Covid. That's an average of 33,333 each month compared to 7,000 per year.
Covid may primarily affect those with preexisting conditions but as the list of preexisting conditions becomes large it approaches "everyone."