Allan Milne Lees
2 min readSep 14, 2021

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Unfortunately, as is so often the case, emotion appears to eliminate reason. While vaccinations for dangerous diseases are clearly a public health matter, it's important to understand real versus perceived risk and also to understand basic epidemiology.

With SARS-CoV2 the mass media has done a wonderful job of persuading ordinary people that we face an existential crisis. In reality, covid-19 has a morbidity rate in the very worst-hit nations of around 0.3%, which means it is non-fatal for 99.7% of the population. Compared to real threats like smallpox (mortality rate 30% of the population) or plague (30% - 60% of the population) we can see that despite the endless media hype, there is no major threat. This is even more clear when we note that unless a person is obese, old & frail, or has a suppressed immune system, SARS-CoV2 has an extremely low mortality rate (less than 0.027% in the absence of co-morbidity factors and in the absence of doctors forcing patients onto ventilators, which kill around 80% of patients thus treated).

Furthermore, as Covid-19 is now endemic, this means that those who don't get vaccinated will in due course become infected (90% showing zero symptoms of any kind) and thus develop antibodies, helping to create herd immunity. Because vaccinations, remember, are merely an artificial way to create those same antibodies.

So in the end, nearly everyone who refuses, for entirely the wrong reasons, to get vaccinated won't die - they will merely develop the immune reactions a bit later than those who do get vaccinated, because Covid-19 isn't actually the problem the mass media has made it seem to be.

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Allan Milne Lees
Allan Milne Lees

Written by Allan Milne Lees

Anyone who enjoys my articles here on Medium may be interested in my books Why Democracy Failed and The Praying Ape, both available from Amazon.

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