The risk of getting and dying from COVID far, far outweighs the risk posed by a vaccine. That's a fact. It's not complicated or difficult to comprehend. It's a numbers game. We also get the vaccine for the good of the group because although you, as an individual, take a risk the overall outcome for the group and therefore your risk and your neighbor's risk, plummet. The more people who don't get vaccinated, the more it spreads, and the odds of getting COVID skyrocket.

Public health has always been a numbers game. The crusade to get people to quit smoking took the rate of tobacco use from it's high at 40% in the 1960s to about 15% today. Since tobacco eventually kills about half the people who use it, that is hundreds of thousands of deaths prevented. The "vaccine" was quitting smoking or never starting.

The fact is, nature doesn't owe us a vaccine. We are lucky to have come up with one. Is it perfect? No. Does it reduce your chance of death from a horrible disease? Yes. Is it without any risk--No. But it's a hell of a lot less risky than walking around unvaccinated, which is where we are seeing the vast majority of Delta cases. The unvaccinated are more likely to get sick, get sicker, and die at higher rates.