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Old 09-16-2021, 08:06 PM
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Originally Posted by SkBlogW View Post
I can think of 70,000 other parents that aren't laughing, but that's not relevant to a discussion of whether it is a rational health policy to vaccinate 74 million kids in a foolish attempt to lower chance of covid death from 1/100000 to 0/100000 when there are many other health problems that kill more kids every year.

"I will assume that a vaccinated child is far less likely to die of COVID than one that is not vaccinated"

Apparently someone was asleep in math class. Going from 1/100000 to 0/100000 is definitely not "far less likely"

It's 0.001% less likely.
If we accept your numbers, which I need to check