C_J my conclusions from this are 1. people who state “vaccines reduce the spread” as though it were a fact are effectively spreading misinformation and 2. there are a lot of anxious and concerned people at the moment who probably feel like they were coerced and possibly even misled into having a medical procedure that has harmed them.
It does reduce spread (not prevent it), even if that effectiveness is dropping with new variants. That’s a true statement until that no longer occurs. Efficacy is obviously important though, so I get the point.
How many people have had adverse reactions to the vaccine vs. how many would have had adverse reactions to the virus is the comparison we need to look at. From an individual perspective, perfect would be to have no adverse reactions to a vaccine, but with 8 billion people, there are going to be outliers. There’s no way to combat that, so we need to accept some individual risk to benefit the group, that’s what a society is. Shared responsibility, shared risk, and shared outcomes.
I think we’re mostly saying the same thing when it comes to continued study and that it’s likely a no-brained decision, but nothing is shifting in favour of the anti-vax crew, as even if they turn out to be right about certain things, none of it came from scientific rigor.
