[jameshart]

Wow. Five cases of excessive yawning correlated with vaccine administration. Out of millions of doses administered.

We should totally pause on the rollout of the vaccine, while we do a proper risk assessment on that.

Because on the one hand, we have the risk that unchecked spread of the disease will lead to more dangerous mutations and we could be faced with a complete collapse of healthcare capacity as it is overwhelmed by severe cases.

And on the other, a handful of people might yawn a lot.

In fact that risk balance is too tricky to be left up to the experts. Individuals should do their own personal risk assessment, based on how annoying they find it to yawn, versus how much hospital capacity they assume is available in their region.

No wonder we’re still in this damn pandemic.

[nathanaldensr]

Unchecked spread of viruses leads to less dangerous mutations because the more dangerous ones burn through victims too quickly for it to spread very far.

[jameshart]

That’s not a great strategy from the perspective of the victims that get burned through.

[jmaygarden]

That’s analogous to saying that “vaccination isn’t a great strategy from the perspective of those with adverse reactions.” In another thread, you did not accept that line of reasoning. Why is it valid in this case?