While it is now apparent that vaccines lower hospitalization rates and the severity of the disease It is also true that hospitalizations are mostly limited to the elderly and those suffering from other health problems and not the general population, especially the younger cohorts. Meanwhile it seems that vaccination by itself is not reducing the number of covid cases in total. What exactly is the point of vaccinating the vast majority of people? Shouldn't the vaccines be administrated to people in those high-risk groups? To me it makes no sense to vaccinate those that have basically no risk of either hospitalization or death and in fact are mostly asymptomatic or have light symptoms. Wouldn't this just promote the spread of vaccine resistant variants? Why are we pretending natural immunity doesn't exist? That being said I'm not an expert in anything.
I'm genuinely confused as to what the vaccines and the mass vaccination drives are supposed to do at this point so explain it like I'm stupid. Full disclosure; I'm not vaccinated and am hesitant getting vaccinated, I'm 29, generally healthy and fit (in the sense that I'm not overweight or have any debilitating conditions). I do not know if I had covid but was tested negative three times over the course of a year or so.
tl;dr should I get vaccinated despite being in a low risk group and statistically unlikely to suffer any serious illness and why?
i have never conducted labolatories or any other teaching stuff in real life, so far only via internet. but next semester we are to have all courses in a traditional way, in building, and im supposed to teach since im a phd student, please give me protips, im pretty sure almost every student will be higher than me and im not happy about it, and i should be self-confident, should i grow a beard?
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What is the average distance between known solar systems?
We sure do a lot of space calculation, to not have this number laying around, but I haven't been able to find it. I figure if anybody has enough autism to answer it, I could find the answer here.
My guess is that the average solar system distance, is beyond a specific minimum Hill Sphere distance, else-wise two solar systems would be considered one.
Ergo, the average distance between any two nearby solar systems MUST be greater than a specific Hill Sphere to star mass ratio, right?
Can someone at least throw the equation at me, if we don't have the known number? I'll go figure it out myself from data sets, if I have to.
