Yes, I should've written "supposing", I guess. But although the number is small, it is probably not zero, and thus I think the philosophical thought exercise re

Yes, I should've written "supposing", I guess. But although the number is small, it is probably not zero, and thus I think the philosophical thought exercise remains interesting. The trolley problem doesn't have to be necessarily 5 vs 1; the fact remains that "we" (as a society) take the risk of killing a (small) number of people (who might not have died of the virus otherwise) in order to save another (large) number. Even if one single person ever died due to a vaccine in order to save everyone else, the problem would still remain. If someone dies of covid, it isn't "anyone's fault" so to speak, and there lies the moral problem.