Jules72 you also fail to mention that the chances of coming down with long covid are around 10 times the chances the dying
Errr, what’s your source for this?
Also, again vaccines make the risk from long covid too small to bother worrying about:
"Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, a clinical epidemiologist, also at Washington University, is studying the effects of Covid-19 vaccination on the risk of long Covid-19. His research, which is not yet finished, looks at information on more than 5 million veterans within a Department of Veterans Affairs database, including 200,000 who were diagnosed with Covid-19.
“Of the people who get vaccinated and end up with a breakthrough infection, their risk of coming back to the clinic with some long Covid manifestation is very, very small,” Al-Aly said."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1273970
Dr Claire Steves, an epidemiologist and senior author on the Convalescence study at King’s College London, said the next six weeks or so would be particularly risky as England opens up, with so many young adults not yet fully vaccinated. But she says the vaccines offered hope for protecting people against long Covid as well as acute Covid. In work to be published later this week, Steves and her colleagues show that vaccination substantially reduces the risk of long Covid.
“We are seeing a very clear reduction in the risk of long Covid in all age groups if you have had two shots of vaccine,” she said. “We know the vaccines really work to reduce your risk of getting infected in the first place, and then if you are unlucky enough to get Covid we are showing your risk of long Covid is much reduced.”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jul/13/delta-surge-could-leave-hundreds-of-thousands-with-long-covid
Jules72 if I’m going to catch this thing, it will be doing something I enjoy (eg going out with friends), rather than sitting next to some anti-vaxxer lunatic at work
I’m sure your employer would be delighted to hear you don’t enjoy your job.
I’m sure they’d also be delighted to hear that you can’t be bothered to go to work to do the thing they’ll be paying you to do because of some tiny risk, a risk that is so small that you’re not so bothered if you get it while going out instead.
You’ll for sure be seen as a very committed employee who attaches plenty of importance to their job, and will surely be rewarded in kind by those managing you.
