> It's a dilemma because my social set & family are very pro-vaccine and includes a few doctors & scientists. I don't know what I'll say to them. We are Bayesi

> It's a dilemma because my social set & family are very pro-vaccine and includes a few doctors & scientists. I don't know what I'll say to them. We are Bayesian inference machines. We assess risk intuitively. You have different priors than them. We do this when we eat something and get sick: If you say "I'm going to pass on the banana ice cream, but you guys go ahead. I'm in no way against banana ice cream, I just got sick from eating bananas once, and now my body rejects the thought." -- this presumably wouldn't ostracize you. If you were run down by a car once, you're more hesitant when you cross a street. That doesn't make you "anti-street-crossing", and there is no one correct pace or condition under which to cross a street. We just accept people behave differently. People will generally accept, "Oh yeah, he just had a different experience in life." Somehow not taking a vaccine is categorically seen as being "against vaccines". This is too one-dimensional. I had two shots and one booster. I'm not getting more flu shots. I'm too healthy, a flu won't kill me. If a more dangerous strand comes along, I'll reconsider.