Nicola Staff asked 2 years ago
We are happy to report to you that more than 10 million lives have been saved from being vaccinated during this time period. That is because the caseload has risen to be a significant percentage of the population, and even at a relatively low level of mortality, with those kinds of numbers, many, many people are at risk. As you know, a high majority of people have become infected during this interval, not all of whom were symptomatic, and many with only mild symptoms, who perhaps never got tested at all because they were not sufficiently uncomfortable to warrant having it done, in their mind at least. Many of those individuals were saved from more serious illness, including hospitalization and a significant number of deaths as well.
Many who have been hospitalized and recovered would have succumbed along the way without the vaccination having been done in advance of their bout of infection. Because the vaccine is best at reducing the hazards of the illness by reducing the severity, so even though it is an imperfect preventative, the degree of prevention needs to be looked at from the perspective of the most severe potential outcome for that person, not simply from whether they come down with the illness or test positive as a pass or fail criterion. The people who are ridiculed by some commentators, because they are testing positive and thank their vaccine for helping them, are literally speaking the truth, that even though they have tested positive and were thus technically not protected from having some level of virus take hold in their body, they are typically weathering it with little inconvenience or discomfort, and that is truly a godsend.
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