We also have the government mandated "No Jab, No job" rule here, which I don't really understand, I'm fully vaccinated but I know I can still be a carrier even if I don't get very sick, so it wouldn't worry me if I had to work with someone who wasn't vaccinated as there is just as much chance of me giving them covid as them giving it to me? I guess it's just the government's way of getting everyone vaccinated. Strange days indeed.......
Sorry to hear about your loss. In the early days of Covid I remember so many people saying they don't know anyone who's had it or died. Not really the case these days, after nearly two years. In the US, it's killed nearly one out of every 400 people.
In Mexico City the vaccination rate is (nominally) above 90% as well, and we are doing boosters. Things have been returning to normal but we'll see if that lasts.
But regarding vax requirements and work, while it is possible to get and transmit the virus if vaccinated, vaccinated people clear their virus load much quicker and therefore are contagious for less time (and of course don't suffer death and hospitalization at anywhere near the rates of unvaccinated people). So requiring vaccinations slows or prevents the spread of Covid as well, even if not 100%.
your math is wrong...and misleading. That 1/400 is for two years. 330 million people divided by almost 800,000 deaths. Yeah, you get OMG 1/400....except that it's one in 800 in actuality, per year so far.
You can't keep totaling up the death count which can rise every year until eternity and using that number to divide the same 330 million by....eventually you get to a 100% mortality rate!.......I'm assuming you just didn't realize what you were doing.
Now, even 1/800 sounds horrible, and it is, especially if it's someone you know. But it's wrong to twist numbers to fit a narrative....and none of us get off this planet alive.....so...
According to John Hopkins, there were 385,363 deaths in 2020, and 2021 is at 405,405....horrible...but..
Using 2021 that is approximately 0.12% of the pop. ...
(why is there more in 2021 ..with a "vaccine " than in 2020 that had no shot....hint - it ain't a vaccine)
However, according to Hopkins, the actual death rate/case is 1.6% , USA....that means you have a 98.4% survivability rate...sounds a whole lot better than 1/400, doesn't it...... and no matter how much you praise Mexico, it's at 7.6%......vaccine and all, right?
You brought up numbers, not me. Numbers don't mean squat when it's personal....I understand that....some don't......And I can't speak for others who don't care to check things out on their own and just follow a crowd. But I couldn't let the sky is falling comment stand.....