11-10-2022, 01:47 PM
(11-10-2022, 01:26 PM)JasonBlack Wrote:(11-10-2022, 02:32 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: It is enough to say that you will have much less likelihood of contracting COVID-19 and even lesser chance of severe consequences and death from COVID-19 if inoculated for it. I see the argument analogous to that for seat belts. Can you be injured if you are wearing a seat belt during a vehicle collision? Yes. Can you die while wearing a seatbelt? Yes. But the likelihood for severe injury or death is far lower for those wearing a seat belt.
The vehicle compartment itself gives some protection from intrusions by objects that can hurt you. Being thrown from the car is a very bad result. Hitting the windshield can make you unconscious should the car catch fire. Unfastening your seatbelt will be easy if you remain conscious.
What I was concerned with had little to do with my opinion on vaccines themselves, but on the intellectually dishonest claims that health officials made about them left and right.
Knowledge in an emergency is almost never perfect. We certainly overdid the stuff on cleaning wipes, as the COVID-19 virus has been shown to have a short lifetime on inanimate surfaces. See also HIV. Much of the analogy for COVID-19 was HIV, and that proved a very flawed analogue.
We do the best with what we have.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.