Do you think that the
Express or the
Daily Hate, and the minions they drag in on this sort of thing, might rein in their outrage
viz the European caution toward the AZ vaccine?
Or are they just going to pretend that they were skeptics all along, and this is now some sort of medical crisis?
@SketchyMagpie makes an important point that vaccination, alone of all medication that you will otherwise take, is pre-emptive - you take it
instead of getting ill.
Which is inherently problematic because you might never have 'got' ill, in that particular way, over the course of your entire life, in the first place. Given that there are risks involved with taking
any medication, what happens if the 'cure' for what you 'might' get carries a 'risk' in itself?
So then you have to quantify risk.
I am always up for an argument about the need for cyclists to wear helmets - lots of people think that it should be mandatory for cyclists to wear helmets, and they are, of course, completely wrong. There are all sorts of reasons
why they are wrong, and they all boil down to risk.
This is because people, on the whole, do not understand risk. They do not understand 'absolute' risk, and they absolutely fail to understand 'relative' risk.
Have a
bacon sandwich.