Chances of getting covid-19

Impossible to say. If a mask is effective 95% og the time then it matters how often you get exposed. You also have to factor in other factors such as how many around you get infected and your genes. Apoe4/4 doubles your chance of getting the vitus and 4,3 times increased likehood of death.

The vaccine, from what I've read, does not affect transmission, it is supposed to lessen the severity of symptoms if one gets covid. I really think they have no idea how effective the vaccine may or may not be as the "trial" was very brief...we're in the real trial now.

stan the corgi wrote:

The vaccine, from what I've read, does not affect transmission, it is supposed to lessen the severity of symptoms if one gets covid. I really think they have no idea how effective the vaccine may or may not be as the "trial" was very brief...we're in the real trial now.

Then you've not read up properly.

Early indications from Israel is that it reduces transmission by at least 33% after one jab and after 2 weeks..

Obviously preliminary data...

"In a preliminary analysis of 200,000 people older than 60 who received the vaccine, compared with a matched group of 200,000 who did not, researchers found that the chances of testing positive for the virus were 33% lower two weeks after the first injection."

Yeah, I know. fake news.

stan the corgi wrote:

The vaccine, from what I've read, does not affect transmission, it is supposed to lessen the severity of symptoms if one gets covid. I really think they have no idea how effective the vaccine may or may not be as the "trial" was very brief...we're in the real trial now.

Highlighted in bold print is the truth. Big Pharma ran their covid-19 vaxx trials with relatively healthy mostly 20 to 60 year olds. We are the lab rats now.

One year into this deadly pandemic and I still don't know a soul who has gotten sick with it.

I'd say the odds are pretty low.

Budda wrote:

stan the corgi wrote:

The vaccine, from what I've read, does not affect transmission, it is supposed to lessen the severity of symptoms if one gets covid. I really think they have no idea how effective the vaccine may or may not be as the "trial" was very brief...we're in the real trial now.

Then you've not read up properly.

Early indications from Israel is that it reduces transmission by at least 33% after one jab and after 2 weeks..

Obviously preliminary data...

"In a preliminary analysis of 200,000 people older than 60 who received the vaccine, compared with a matched group of 200,000 who did not, researchers found that the chances of testing positive for the virus were 33% lower two weeks after the first injection."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00140-w

Yeah, I know. fake news.

From Israel?

Pretty low on credibility. These are the people who scream about terror balloons, terror tunnels, terror kites as they bomb people

Sir Patrick Vallance today said it was too early too draw conclusions from Israel's vaccination drive after alarm that hospitalisations have not yet dropped.

Israel is currently leading the global vaccination drive, with nearly 39 per cent of its citizens having had at least a single dose of a jab so far.

However, infection and death rates, as well as the numbers of people in hospital, have shown little sign of falling.

Latest figures show a further 7,027 tested positive for the virus on Thursday, with 64 new deaths from the disease. Out of 82,930 active cases, 1,918 are hospitalized. Last week, the hospitalisation figure was just over 1,000.

Addressing the apparent failure of the jab regime in cutting infection rates, Israel's top coronavirus medic said on Wednesday that the Pfizer vaccine was less effective than expected.

Real-world data from Israel's world-beating rollout showed the first dose led to a 33 per cent reduction in cases of coronavirus between 14 and 21 days afterwards in people who got the jab.

The figure is lower than the British regulator's estimate, which said it may prevent 89 per cent of recipients from getting Covid-19 symptoms.