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But the real risk here is that the lever will get stuck. Even if 1 person dies from vaccine - it can create huge, long-lasting case against vaccination, causing more people to choose not to vaccinate and eventually killing a lot more people.

There must be no doubts with vaccines, 100% trust in them is essential.



> There must be no doubts with vaccines, 100% trust in them is essential.

Completely unrealistic. Everything in life has associated risks, and vaccines do carry a (small) risk.

It would be better to educate people about understanding and balancing relative risks rather than sensationalising a few outliers. The main fault here lies with the lack of proper rational discussion in the media.


Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the great.


We're not doing great at all at vaccine acceptance...




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