*I* didn’t describe Covid as “deadly” so this gotcha doesn’t work. It’s dangerous if you’re in a high risk group but I wouldn’t say it’s a deadly disease for most people…. “Potentially fatal” would be a better description.
I guess a very generous interpretation of that comment could be that he thinks the vaccines have ‘only’ killed millio…
*I* didn’t describe Covid as “deadly” so this gotcha doesn’t work. It’s dangerous if you’re in a high risk group but I wouldn’t say it’s a deadly disease for most people…. “Potentially fatal” would be a better description.
I guess a very generous interpretation of that comment could be that he thinks the vaccines have ‘only’ killed millions of people. Obviously that’s still batshit and Covid is much more dangerous than the risk of very rare fatal side effects from the vaccines. I get the impression that you’re some kind of anti-vaxx whack job so I will not be discussing this further.
So you do not think it's fair to make blanket statements which scaremonger about the virus to the general population. I agree.
And I also don't think it's useful to scaremonger about the mRNA vaccines. But I do think it is not unreasonable to estimate that the risks they pose to healthy young people outweigh the risks the virus poses, in agreement with many health authorities around the world, and on the basis of Pfizer's own trial data as analyzed by Doshi et al in 2022 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9428332).
A 1-in-800 rate of serious complication *does* lead to a reasonable conclusion that at least millions globally were seriously harmed by the mRNA vaccines, though not necessarily killed.
If that makes me a "whack job anti-vaxxer" then I don't know what to tell you, other than that your communication style is probably counterproductive to your goals.
*I* didn’t describe Covid as “deadly” so this gotcha doesn’t work. It’s dangerous if you’re in a high risk group but I wouldn’t say it’s a deadly disease for most people…. “Potentially fatal” would be a better description.
I guess a very generous interpretation of that comment could be that he thinks the vaccines have ‘only’ killed millions of people. Obviously that’s still batshit and Covid is much more dangerous than the risk of very rare fatal side effects from the vaccines. I get the impression that you’re some kind of anti-vaxx whack job so I will not be discussing this further.
So you do not think it's fair to make blanket statements which scaremonger about the virus to the general population. I agree.
And I also don't think it's useful to scaremonger about the mRNA vaccines. But I do think it is not unreasonable to estimate that the risks they pose to healthy young people outweigh the risks the virus poses, in agreement with many health authorities around the world, and on the basis of Pfizer's own trial data as analyzed by Doshi et al in 2022 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9428332).
A 1-in-800 rate of serious complication *does* lead to a reasonable conclusion that at least millions globally were seriously harmed by the mRNA vaccines, though not necessarily killed.
If that makes me a "whack job anti-vaxxer" then I don't know what to tell you, other than that your communication style is probably counterproductive to your goals.