Reply To: The playing squad

[Anonymous]

Since you are too lazy to click on a link here’s another:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/health/vaccine-injury-claims.html

This details that there have been 105 successful cases of vaccine injury over dozens of years. Coronavirus, which we are told by these lockdown sceptic anti-vaxxers, is just a minor inconvenience has killed 188,000 in less than a year. With a vaccine this number would have been greatly reduced. Yet those who are not concerned about 188,000 dead are ultra-concerned about something which has led to a grand total of 105 injuries, for things like allergic reactions, in many years. Forgive me for not taking such claims seriously when they witter self-righteousness about how we must be so concerned about vaccine injury when the risks are far outweighed by the benefits.

Nothing in life is without risk, and vaccines aren’t. However they have been responsible for the reduction in death from a myriad of diseases since their invention by Edward Jenner. Anyone who raises concerns over the small risk of a reaction must bear in mind the sheer number of lives saved because of them. Anyone who can prove that vaccines caused them a reaction should be compensated, but when the risk is small it is no great concern for the public as a whole.

If you’re going to throw your self-righteousness at me for a stunning total of 105 successful cases in the USA for causing great concern about something, I would then ask you are you willing for thousands more to be at risk of death from measles, flu and many more preventable diseases for the sake of 105 cases where those injured didn’t die? No bluff or bluster.