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Should people who willfully refuse the vaccine pay higher health insurance premiums?
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<blockquote data-quote="DerSchweik" data-source="post: 75953870" data-attributes="member: 200865"><p>FWIW,</p><p></p><p>The total population of the US is 332,690,850</p><p>The total number of COVID cases is 33,695,916 - that's <strong>10.13%</strong> of the total population</p><p>The total number of COVID deaths in the US is 599,863 - that's <strong>0.18%</strong> of the total population, and just <strong>1.78%</strong> of those who test positive.</p><p>Vaccine effectiveness: 95% for the top two, 66% for the third</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries" target="_blank">Source</a></p><p></p><p>Frankly, the fact that one's likelihood of dying if they contract COVID, not having been vaccinated, are just 1.78% of all people who contract the virus, and less that 0.2% of the total population as a whole, doesn't exactly strike me as justification for penalizing people for not getting a vaccine that is... at best 95% effective...</p><p></p><p>Point being... your chances of the vaccine NOT working (5%) are about 25 times greater (5%/0.2%)than if you did... oh, I don't know... nothing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DerSchweik, post: 75953870, member: 200865"] FWIW, The total population of the US is 332,690,850 The total number of COVID cases is 33,695,916 - that's [B]10.13%[/B] of the total population The total number of COVID deaths in the US is 599,863 - that's [B]0.18%[/B] of the total population, and just [B]1.78%[/B] of those who test positive. Vaccine effectiveness: 95% for the top two, 66% for the third [URL='https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries']Source[/URL] Frankly, the fact that one's likelihood of dying if they contract COVID, not having been vaccinated, are just 1.78% of all people who contract the virus, and less that 0.2% of the total population as a whole, doesn't exactly strike me as justification for penalizing people for not getting a vaccine that is... at best 95% effective... Point being... your chances of the vaccine NOT working (5%) are about 25 times greater (5%/0.2%)than if you did... oh, I don't know... nothing. [/QUOTE]
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