quote Originally posted by Jonesy: Sounds good to me. If you want to jump in line to trust some rushed drug from big pharma companies that have been racing to be the 1st so they can make billions, go for it, you do you. I'll wait until I know its not going to have series negative effects before I decide to put some new drug into my body. It's not about a lack of courage, its about a lack of trust in the motives of these companies to rush out a drug that normally takes years, in a matter of months and not cut corners or test it properly. If it turns out to be safe, once its available to the public ill be happy to take it.

No doubt.

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Certain death? Hardly.
Approximately 16 million Americans wore the uniform in WWII, and 290,000 died in combat. So, just under 2%. Another 115,000 died non-combat deaths, so now you're up to 4%.

The odds change*, of course, depending on where - or if - you saw combat. 70,000 soldiers, mostly Marines, served on Iwo Jima, for example, and 10% of them were killed.

From National WW2 Museum stats:
8.6 out of every 1000 servicemen in uniform were killed, which = 0.86%.
And, the reality is that not all volunteered to put on those uniforms and storm the beaches either. Most did not. From the same source:

PROFILE OF US SERVICEMEN (1941-1945)
38.8% (6,332,000) of U.S. servicemen and all servicewomen were volunteers
61.2% (11,535,000) were draftees
Average duration of service: 33 months
Overseas service: 73% served overseas, with an average of 16 months abroad
https://www.nationalww2muse...-us-military-numbers


Iraq/Afghanistan?



*The same applies to Covid. Where you happen to be located and your personal health circumstances play a big part in how well you survive it or even whether you contract it or not.

I've seen far more people claim they were afraid of the vaccine than say they were afraid of catching the disease itself.

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