In both the comments and in other discussions, I've seen a lot of trolley problem analogies. This is a spectacularly bad analogy. In the trolley problem, the p

In both the comments and in other discussions, I've seen a lot of trolley problem analogies. This is a spectacularly bad analogy. In the trolley problem, the people on the tracks have no choice! With regards to vaccines, we can give people a choice. A competent government would respect people's agency. It would say "Hey folks, the virus kills 1/N and the vaccine kills 1/M, take your pick." When people learn the M is several orders of magnitude greater than N, they will act accordingly.