Do you play the percentages?
If so, you may want to know that your chances of having a heart attack below the age of 45 are between 4% and 10%. If you’re aged 50 or more and haven’t had cancer, your chance of being diagnosed with it in the next 10 years or more is only 6.57%.
The COVID-19 pandemic has given us a whole new world of percentages to play. For example, you might have taken the chance to never wear a mask in public at the outset of the virus and hoped you’d never get sick. Or you might have been around somebody who was sick and figured you’d never get it.
Or perhaps you decided to skip the vaccine because you were sure you weren’t going to get COVID-19 or that your concerns about a vaccine outweighed the chances that you might get sick.
The latest omicron variant – omicron being the 15th letter in the Greek alphabet – has offered even more percentages.