I agree with your point that rare side effects is not a reason not to encourage vaccination. Basically all medications (whether causally or statistically) end u

I agree with your point that rare side effects is not a reason not to encourage vaccination. Basically all medications (whether causally or statistically) end up with potential side effects, and it's not a reason to reject modern medicine, it's always a probabilistic exercise. I also think public health messaging should focus on the net benefit and not get caught up in rare side effects. Where I think we disagree, and what I believe is the problem is that once we get into compelled vaccination (which whatever mental gymnastics people play, we have in most places), you take away people's autonomy to accept a treatment for themselves, and so suddenly even the rarest side effects become the government's fault and a big deal in the eyes of many. Most will voluntarily undertake much riskier things, but force them to do it, and surprisingly people get upset that there are potential rare side effects. Couple that with the fact that the vaccine doesn't really do anything against current covid strains, ("prevents severe infection" doesn't really clear any bar) and it makes more sense that even very rare stuff ends up being intolerable