The page in the above image contains a total of 15,000 individual tiny dots.

Let’s say each single dot represents 1 person. This page of dots pictured above would therefore represent 15,000 people.

If you want to envision the entire population of the State of Victoria, Australia – requiring a total of 6,750,000 individual dots (the approximate population of Victoria in 2021) – imagine 450 full pages of these. That’s more pages than most books.

Now if you account for the official number of active cases of COVID-19 in Victoria as of today, Friday 23rd July 2021 – 158 – the amount of dots this would cover would barely encompass just 1% of one single solitary page of dots — not even two complete rows of dots. If you think in terms of an entire book, this would be less than the first sentence on the first page.

Furthermore: out of this 1% of one page of a total of 450 pages representing the people who are currently infected with COVID-19, statistically over 96% of these people will fully recover from it, with or without the vaccine.

So if you ask me again why I’m not yet taking an experimental vaccine with unknown long-term side effects, with no current plans to travel, this is my answer to you.

Update (April 2022): Vaccinated with Moderna Spikevax (3rd Dose)