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Oh, it 'just' saves your life. Oh well, if that's all...

Potentially saves your life if you're in a risk group with co-morbidities yes...

Not downplaying anything here. Reducing the symptoms is great. But interesting also to not that we don't even knows why it does that:

The reason for the efficacy of the new mRNA vaccines is not clear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRNA_vaccine#Efficacy

Where do you get the idea that the vaccines only work on people who have co-morbidities? That’s certainly not the experience here I’m the UK. They seem to reduce the death and serious illness rate in otherwise healthy people just fine.

Where do you get the idea that the vaccines only work on people who have co-morbidities?

How do you draw that conclusion? I never said that. Vaccines work across the board. But to illustrate an extreme, they do practically nothing to kids. For 80+ year olds they're miracle drugs.

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