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It has to do with your argument being a bad argument. > Only 10 in 200,000 died from a vaccine This doesn't negate the fact that vaccines can be dangerous. Th
by newen 6y ago
It has to do with your argument being a bad argument.
> Only 10 in 200,000 died from a vaccine
This doesn't negate the fact that vaccines can be dangerous. This just happens to be the number for that particular vaccine.
> 10 in 200,000 deaths is better than 1 in 100
The 10 could have been fine without the vaccine. Who knows, it's just speculation; maybe they had pre-existing conditions, maybe they did not. But comparing numbers like this knowing that the 10 in 200,000 are drawn from a different population from the 1 in 100 is being disingenuous.
- roywiggins 6y agoI never said vaccines can't be dangerous. I was talking about the relative danger of a vaccine. A plausible upper bound on the absolute risk is the Cutter incident. Covid is way above that. Even a shitty vaccine that occasionally kills people at a rate of 10 in 200,000, it would still be a better bet than COVID. The people getting the Polio vaccine (children) were the general population of people at highest risk of death by polio. The same is true for the Covid vaccine, at least for the next few months. Both are mass vaccination campaigns.