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by manwe150 1776 days ago
Those are already the complications associated with not vaccinating, so putting them on the table again would double-count them.

Not sure I agree with their ‘hundreds of millions (per year)’ figure. That seems like unnecessary fear-mongering. But maybe ‘hundreds of thousands’ or ‘millions’, which is still not great.

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I'm not fear-mongering; I'm just a pessimist. My scenarios are “unbelievably unrealistic” and “apocalyptic sci-fi”, respectively, but I wanted to make sure I got an upper bound on the worst-case. I don't know much about the topic, so I had to go into “I know this is unrealistic” territory for that.

See also: https://xkcd.com/2261/ and https://xkcd.com/883/.