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There's a cost-benefit analysis to be made here, and with 240,000 deaths in the US over the course of about eight months, there's pretty widespread agreement among experts where the rational answer lies.

Do I think the vaccine is risky? Sure. Do I think it has anywhere close to the risk level of COVID-19 with an unvaccinated population? No.

Maybe other countries can rationally hold off on it, but the US cannot. We've messed up our response so awfully that the risk of mass-vaccination is almost negligible compared to what we're experiencing without.

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The whole world doesn’t live in the USA?

You’re making out like me taking this vaccine (not even finished with trials) is the be all and end all. We don’t even know if this vaccine stops the spread to others or just mitigates symptoms. If you think the risks outweigh the rewards, that’s a personal decision you’re making, you don’t make it for me.

We know there are other ways to slow the spread of the virus (Australia), the problem in the USA isn’t the rest of the worlds problem.

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> The whole world doesn’t live in the USA?

This is true. And as I mentioned, in some countries it may be rational to hold off on mass vaccinations.