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Hand washing is not widely known to have harmful side effects that sometimes even require hospitalization, and sometimes even cause death. Same for unloading in
by tejohnso 5y ago
Hand washing is not widely known to have harmful side effects that sometimes even require hospitalization, and sometimes even cause death. Same for unloading in designated places.
- acdha 5y agoYou have to look at the odds: the risky vaccine side-effects are massively less common than those of COVID, which in case you haven’t noticed is raging and causing lots of economic disruption to boot. The trade-off is obvious.
- tejohnso 5y agoOkay so you're changing your argument now. Instead of a simple comparison to hand washing, you're saying people should "look at the odds" and somehow make a judgement call. Well, that's a much different request, and is open to a lot of variation, uncertainty, personal bias, etc. It really isn't as simple as "it's just like washing your hands".
- acdha 5y agoNo, it's the same comparison: handwashing is mildly inconvenient (consider, for example, the arguments from doctors who opposed it historically) but a population which does it regularly has a lower chance of various unpleasant outcomes. Vaccination is a different technique but similar: mild inconvenience, lower chance of significantly worse outcomes. The uncertainty and personal bias is what you're trying to inject into a very clear cut decision when you conflate the extremely rare possible side-effects from vaccination with the far more common effects of contracting COVID. If you look at a large population, yes, there are a few people who will have a significant negative reaction to a vaccine but for each of them there are many thousands of people who will have worse outcomes from the actual disease.