[nerdponx]

This. I'm sure there are specific situations that I haven't conceived of, but in general I find it hard to believe that you can look at the data and conclude that the vaccine is more dangerous than the disease itself. Unless you are in some kind of a very high risk category for mRNA vaccines, the risk of serious side effects or death seems to be at least one order of magnitude less for the vaccine than for the virus itself.

I'm a bit uncomfortable with the overall authoritarian approach to public health in the West (see also: fluoride in water; harmless, but unnecessary and immoral). So I can sympathize with people who are uncomfortable with a vaccine mandates, particularly nowadays that the issue is politicized and is no longer "just" about public health.

But all that said, I suspect a lot of people who claim to have evaluated the risks are really just rationalizing an emotional decision.

[quenix]

I'm not in a country but does this, but why do you find fluoride in water immoral?