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Identifying the relative effects of two courses of action is nowhere near a straw man. Merriam-Webster definition of straw man: a weak or imaginary opposition
by daveguy 5y ago
Identifying the relative effects of two courses of action is nowhere near a straw man.
Merriam-Webster definition of straw man: a weak or imaginary opposition (such as an argument or adversary) set up only to be easily confuted
Stating the actual side-effects of one course over the other is neither weak nor imaginary.
- Izkata 5y agoThere are two different buckets of people that OP is conflating: * Those who haven't been infected yet * Those who have already been infected They're ignoring the second bucket, which is what GP was pointing out - only talking about the first bucket and pretending it applies to both.
- daveguy 5y agoNo. They are addressing the subgroup of the first group of people, who you are ignoring: * Those who haven't been infected who are wondering if they should not bother with the vaccine if getting infected provides durable immunity. The answer to that is: the vaccine is orders of magnitude less dangerous than contracting the virus. Just because you don't address every single group of people in a response does not mean that response is invalid or unimportant.
- briefcomment 5y agoWhat group two should do is far more interesting IMO given this evidence.