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I think people vastly overestimate the danger of vaccines vs thing they do on a daily basis. Even aspirin is more dangerous.
by ch4s3 6y ago
I think people vastly overestimate the danger of vaccines vs thing they do on a daily basis. Even aspirin is more dangerous.
- kfrzcode 6y agoSource citation needed.
- jimktrains2 6y agoIts not quite apples to oranges as many of the dangers of aspirin (e.g. stomach ulcers or liver damage) are due to long term exposure or over dosing, neither of which can easily happen with a vaccine.
- AnHonestComment 6y agoWhat? I can’t make sense of what you’re even trying to say: 1. That the mechanism of harm is different tells us nothing about the relative risks. I don’t OD on cars, but cars are riskier than Asprin. 2. You can have long term negative impacts from, eg, vaccine carriers. (Which is why we stopped using some....) 3. Overdosing a live virus vaccine happens all the time, the result being you get the illness. A flu shot can kill you by giving you a deadly flu.
- jimktrains2 6y agoRisk is proportional to usage. My point was that using aspirin (or driving, since you brought it up) is more common and more easily to use incorrectly than a vaccine.
- jimktrains2 6y agoCars still weird me out. Cars are incredibly dangerous, even with all of the safety that goes into them. People don't treat them with the respect they deserve or demand. Edit: I was specifically referring to how the danger of everyday things are under estimated by people. That people e.g. text while driving a 1½ ton vehicle at 55+ mph is a great example of that. The danger isn't high enough to be "common" but definitely higher than people estimate it to be.
- HPsquared 6y agoTo the user, the benefits of car use are immediately obvious, but the risks are more remote and abstract.
- zbrozek 6y agoI don't know where the fear comes from. They seem like amazeballs ROI and like everyone should be champing at the bit to get them.
- kjsthree 6y agoEvery time I see “champing at the bit”, I consider it a victory for humanity. People correctly assessing vaccine risk would just be gravy.
- Consultant32452 6y agoI'm pro vaccine. I hope everyone who can gets one. These are just my thoughts on why we see skepticism. The more the media treats covid vaccines like they're marketing the latest iphone release the more skeptical I become. It's very unsettling to me personally. Black people in this country have the Tuskeegee experiment as a huge reason to be skeptical of vaccines. Over the course of the last year the sense-making organizations have lost a ton of credibility by lying to get the outcome they wanted instead of educating us. The most blatant examples are probably when the surgeon general and WHO told us wearing masks would kill us because they didn't want us to buy masks that would save our lives, they wanted to save those for healthcare workers. Fauci has recently admitted he lied about his estimates for herd immunity because he believed it would aid compliance. Birx told us not to mix family and then had a mixed family Thanksgiving. The list of governors/congress/media personalities hypocritically breaking the rules they push feels unending. Fourteen days to slow the spread turned into shut down everything until there's a cure. These things have a cost, and we are seeing it.