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Good points made here. One possible correction. The actual Covid infection rate in Indiana is probably about 3 times as high as the number testing positive, so the exposure to death from Covid calculated above is therefore probably overstated by a factor of three.
I don’t trust the validity and accuracy of statisticians like the authors because they can make a case for or against nearly anything merely by how they calculate the percentages of one parameter or another. As Mark Twain is famously quoted “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”. With that said I got vaccinated as soon as my age group became eligible. The reason was simple. Without the data the authors cite, I concluded the benefits of getting vaccinated were greater than the benefits of not getting vaccinated. And not just for factors of becoming infected with Covid-19 and surviving the disease. There is a great deal of evidence that the quarantines, social distancing, job losses and economic stress suffered over the past year, as well as the 24-7 news cycle and politicization of the pandemic, have created and continue to maintain a great deal of harm to people everywhere in our nation. Empirical signs abound. Anxiety, depression, suicide, drug abuse, murders have all increased significantly throughout the pandemic. Those lowest on the economic scale have been especially hard hit. So if getting vaccinated will contribute to satisfying our so-called leaders to get this nation back to normal so people can return to some degree of normalcy, I decided it was worth getting vaccinated. Life in the U.S. will never be the same, but change happens regardless of pandemics. What we can encourage is for leaders to restore some level of rational, normal living conditions for our society that allows people to relax and come off the “red code alert status”. Everyone needs and deserves a break from this drama. Unfortunately, it is also evident that many politicians and activists have capitalized greatly by “not wasting the crisis of this calamity”. It will be difficult to pry this new-found, effective tool of fear mongering from their greedy, self-centered hands.
Suicides are actually down in 2020 but please, go on.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/15/health/coronavirus-suicide-cdc.html
The problem is the virus, not the restrictions.
But we chose as a society to not really lock down, but kinda lock down a little then say “lockdowns don’t work”. Birth control doesn’t work when you don’t follow the directions either. And we chose to bankrupt businesses when they needed to close until it was safe to reopen, other countries didn’t do that. Why did we make that choice?