Imagine laying in a hospital bed dying from suffocation when you had like 6 months to go out for 30 mins and get a 5 second shot that would've most likely prevented you from dying. Lol! All to own the libs.
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Edit: please don't post unsubstantive/flamebait comments generally - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28314687 was another one.
How can politics/party lines be stronger than rational self-interest? It just doesn't compute in my head, and never will for the rest of my life.
I know these people are not the majority, but their fraction is still large enough to amount to millions of people. It's absolutely mind-boggling.
Bad faith exploiters who peddle fake news are much to blame.
But our institutions should reflect on why people trust dumbasses on facebook more than them. Our public health officials 1) aren't really competent on average, 2) have been constantly wrong, but worse 3) have lied (with noble intent I guess) about covid.
Nobody trusts the media in general. It's all biased and sensationalist.
The message was that only 80 year olds die of this disease.
But while the risk of death halves with every 8 years younger you are the risk of hospitalization only halves every 15 years. So while a 20 year old is 161 times less likely than an 80 year old to die, they're only 16 times less likely than an 80 year old to be hospitalized (roughly a 1% chance with the alpha variant so probably 2% chance with delta). And that's enough when spread across the entire population because of how resource intensive COVID patients are.
Agreed though about public health officials. They are all MDs who were better at playing politics than they were at medicine.