Is if someone finds a way to unlock the CPU without paying Intel. Then the joke will be on them.

Okay, I'll bite: what are these numbers for ages 0 to 50 years old?

Last I checked, vaccine efficacy was defined in terms of the rate of infections prevented not in terms of hospitalization prevented. So first of all, we are lowering the bar a lot.

Secondly, if vaccines do little to prevent the spread of the disease then getting vaccinated is mostly a personal decision. Forcing other people to get vaccinated will not lower your probability of ending up infected or in hospital.

Thirdly, even if the vaccine reduces your chances of landing in hospital you have to remember that a 90% reduction of a tiny number is still a tiny number.

If you are under 65 years old and are not immunocompromised then getting vaccinated provides very in the way of benefits. Just look at the statistics.

So yes, let's encourage people to vaccinate. But not everyone. Just people who are 65 and older, or are immunocompromised. The cost/benefit of forcing everyone else to vaccinate is extremely high.

Protect the sick and vulnerable. Let everyone else go about their business.

Also worth mentioning: both my wife and I contracted COVID recently. She was double-vaccinated while I was unvaccinated. She was the one who got infected first, then proceeded to infect me. She experienced noticeably more severe symptoms from COVID than I did. I experienced one day of high-fever and that was it. I was literally vacuuming the house the next day.

This is a very slippery slope. What about obese people? What about smokers? Both tax our medical system very heavily yet we do not force people to diet or quit smoking, nor do we deny them medical care.

The current available vaccines are problematic for two reasons:

1. They do little in the way of preventing infection.
2. There is no data on their long-term safety.

I can tell you from personal experience that even their short-term impact is problematic. My wife happened to be unlucky enough to develop life-long complications as a direct result of the second vaccine dose (confirmed by doctors and all). Yes, it's rare, but if you happen to be the unlucky person it's life altering. Now a 40 year old person who would otherwise be at the height of her life is living with the quality of life of an 80 year old. Not cool.

COVID has a very different risk profile than other diseases, as do the associated vaccines. It is not appropriate to mandate a one-size-fits-all approach. People who are at very low risk from COVID should not be forced to risk their long-term quality of life with a vaccine they do not need. If the medical system falls over with 200 extra people in ICU, it is the medical system that is the problem, not the people.

Remind me again, how effective is the vaccine against Omicron?

$3 trillion company? Inflation will do that...

Code of Conduct only applies to employees, not employers. Google, as an organization, did not sign this Code of Conduct.

Sure. When do we deny healthcare services to smokers and overweight people?

If it took the FDA a few months to read and analyze this documentation with sufficient detail for them to risk the lives of hundreds of millions.

It should not take them any longer to release it to the public. What they are doing is stonewalling.

And when the number of cases will they finally admit that (1) vaccination does not prevent infection (2) the number of cases don't matter so long as the vast majority of people don't end up hospitalized or dead?

You cannot solve a problem when you focus on the wrong metric.

> Get over the pandemic then we get back to normal

That's a lie if I've ever heard one.

Do you know how long it took humanity to eliminate the last virus we targeted using a vaccine? Over 20 years... In North America alone.... And that was a sanitizing vaccine, which the COVID one is not.

Vaccines are great and I recommend everyone who is at risk get vaccinated but don't for a minute believe that the only thing holding us back from getting back to normal are those darn unvaccinated scapegoats. COVID will be with us for decades to come. There only thing preventing us from getting back to normal are power-hungry politicians who used FUD to use people's anxiety to gain and retain control.

When COVID eventually becomes as deadly as the flu (which it already is in some countries) don't assume that things will get back to normal on their own. They won't.

Nonsense. There is a world of difference between people who are anti-vaxxers (refuse to accept any vaccines) versus people who are unsure about the COVID vaccine but vaccinate themselves for all other diseases. The reasoning of the two group is extremely different.

First of all, there is a lot we *don't* know about COVID and COVID vaccines. I don't agree with anti-vaxxers but society's total lack of humility on this topic is distressing. Let's begin by admitting what we do know and what we don't. Let's conduct more studies on the topic of long-term COVID and COVID vaccine symptoms separated by age.

The fact of the matter is that COVID (unlike other diseases) has wildly different risk factors depending on your individual health situation. Anyone who advocates the same policy across all groups is ignoring reality. What is right for my (older) parents is not necessarily right for my (younger) children.

I want to see more two-sided discussion in the media and scientific community. I want to see less censoring of risks associated with COVID vaccines. I have a young family member who took the COVID vaccine and is experiencing long-term debilitating side-effects for over 3 months now. If you look up "POTS" and COVID vaccine you will find many others who have the same. I'm not saying that the numbers are huge, but the fact that no one mentions this possibility prior to vaccination is a huge red light.

The government has the duty of presenting people with *all* of the facts prior to vaccination. Let everyone decide for themselves. There is nothing wrong with a vaccine that has extremely low chance of long-term disabilities, but you absolutely have to warn people. It is criminal that patients are not being warned. It is criminal that such discussion is being censored.

Wrong question.

Why do you care what other people do? If the vaccine works then you are protected, regardless of other people's behavior. There is an argument to be made about reaching herd immunity but seeing as no country is close to reaching this worldwide you can't really argue that a small number of unvaccinated people are screwing it up for everyone else.

If you assume that you will never reach herd immunity (by way of vaccines) then again you need to ask yourself why do you care if other people get vaccinated. Get your vaccination and move on. Eventually everyone else will get sick and develop natural immunity or die. Either way, it doesn't affect you.

For the record, the only way to stop mutations is to vaccinate or infect the majority of people very quickly. Going halfway in either direction (I'm looking at you Canada) is a recipe for disaster. This is why long-term quarantines cause more problems than they solve, with respect to mutations.

For what it's worth, I live in Canada and I've run on heat pump alone (no electric heating) down to 14 Fahrenheit quite comfortably. Heat pumps can run below freezing and would work fine in most parts of the US.