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> "maybe getting slightly less sick" as a reason to get it You are barking up the wrong tree if that is my upside. I get sick all the time, I got kids in dayc
by peteradio 4y ago
> "maybe getting slightly less sick" as a reason to get it
You are barking up the wrong tree if that is my upside. I get sick all the time, I got kids in daycare and school, its just a fact of life. I don't ever know what I got or if maybe I'm not getting enough sleep or a bit hungover. I don't need a pharmaceutical for anything that ails me, yet.
Ordinary people under 50 doing the cost benefit analysis might rightly come to the conclusion that there is no medical or social benefit to getting the vaccine. Can you learn to respect that or is this vaccine really a must have for anybody?
- ImPostingOnHN 4y ago
- peteradio 4y agoI assert most people <50 made their decision sans data analysis, if that's true then I'm above the mean in that regard.
- ImPostingOnHN 4y agogiven that even you, someone who has decided not to receive a vaccination, are thusfar unable to articulate any significant downsides, it is unlikely that the average person would believe there to be any
- peteradio 4y agoAgain, I make decisions based on some apparent upside. There's also no significant downside to twisting the door knob three times and knocking on the frame three times before entering any room.
- ImPostingOnHN 4y agoperhaps the reason most people behave differently is that they perform a more proper cost benefit equation, which doesn't minimize the upside, and doesn't have bias towards the "cost" end of the spectrum before any costs or benefits are actually added in