I am saddened for those that die despite doing everything that they can to prevent it. The vaccine doesn't always work. Some people can't get it for legitimate health reasons (as opposed to the illegitimate excuses some people use). Etc.

Call me cold hearted, but with the exception of the minority of people meeting the above criteria, I can't help but imagine that most of the people dying of COVID at this point are willfully ignorant Trumpets taking one for their team. Good riddance to them. That's one less ballot we need to worry about in November.

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The vaccine does work. Vaccines aren't a silver bullet "you'll never catch this disease now" solution. They simply mitigate the harmful effects of the virus and reduce your chances of contracting it.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

A lot of vaccines prevent you from becoming sick. With that in mind they work in a way but aren't very good. Better than nothing for sure.

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 3 points 10 months ago

Yup, the only good thing Trump has ever done was killing off a ton of his cult members.

[–] calypsopub@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'd like to see the data broken out by comorbidities, vaccination status, etc. so we can understand the risks - is it mostly elderly? Immunocompromised? Unvaccinated? Diabetics? It would be useful to have a real assessment of my personal risk of dying at this point, and whether or not I should be alarmed. For instance, if it's mostly unvaccinated people, that's sad, but I'm basically a pincushion at this point so no worries.

[–] nulluser@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

Agreed, that would be useful knowledge. I'm sure there's a publicly available data set that has that information somewhere. But it's probably a case of knowing who to ask for the raw data and being willing to crunch your own numbers.