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My odds of getting in a car wreck today are tiny. If I wear a seatbelt today it will almost certainly not matter. My odds of getting in a car wreck over the course of years are not so tiny, and wearing a seatbelt makes a big difference.

Stop with this seatbelt analogy. At least until the government demands you start ingesting them.

If you write it in permille the differences appear even smaller. But if you look at the actual number of people who will die if we keep the pandemic going and don't get the vaccination rates up, the difference is suddenly in the millions of people.

…in just one given week, though. And that week was not so bad; in January we had case rates many multiples higher.

But maybe if you count infections per second, instead of per week, you can get a number so close to 100% not dead that it’s a rounding error: pandemic solved!