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Because the concerns around vaccines are rarely proportional to the risks. For example, the likelihood of getting myocarditis from the vaccine is 1 in 15,000. T
by fasterik 3y ago
Because the concerns around vaccines are rarely proportional to the risks. For example, the likelihood of getting myocarditis from the vaccine is 1 in 15,000. That is roughly the same as the likelihood of being struck by lightning at least once during your life. You also have a 1 in 10,000 chance of dying in a car crash in any given year. I doubt the people who are so worried about the vaccine are going around worrying about driving a car or being struck by lightning, and even if they were, it wouldn't be rational to do so.
- hotdogscout 3y agoThey still have not presented a lie or an irrational thought by pointing out these risks. I don't think it's productive to assume someone is irrational and stupid by association. Lottery tickets are an accepted fact of life despite being just as stupid.
- fasterik 3y ago>They still have not presented a lie or an irrational thought by pointing out these risks. That's not true. In the context of these discussions, the risks are almost always brought up as evidence that you shouldn't get vaccinated, or at least that we should seriously question the vaccines. To see why it's irrational, we just have to compare the probability of dying from the vaccine to the probability of dying from COVID unvaccinated. The data overwhelmingly support getting vaccinated. >I don't think it's productive to assume someone is irrational and stupid by association. I never called anyone stupid. Smart people are irrational all the time. Irrationality means having beliefs that aren't in your own interest or that contradict your other beliefs.
- hotdogscout 3y agoI concede this is a thought experiment that rarely happens in real life because yes, most people do use these data points to support something other than "risks exist".