| All things are imperfect.
Yes, people have died, had issues, etc. We should not dismiss that (and people do), it is in fact true. But it is unfortunately normal, and will likely not change for a very very long time, if ever If you give anything to all ~8 billion people in the world, even basic things like "water", or "sunlight", you will see some percent of them have issues with it. In fact, the rate of some allergies to sunlight[1] is greater than the rate of issues with covid vaccines. So it's not really Russian Roulette at this scale any more than "going outside" is. It's simply that humans are all too different to be perfect at giving them anything, and at a scale of almost 8 billion people, everything that can happen, will happen. In that sense it is like building software than runs on 8 billion very very similar but very slightly different platforms. The rate of issues is right now is already essentially "The best of the best". To use your analogy, these vaccines is already just about the most well tested, bug free software that can exist in this situation As for the other parts - as others have said, vaccines exist not just to stop disease, but to reduce severity. https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/assets/Image/cov... The chance you have of dying with covid is a lot less with a vaccine than without one.
a lot less. At the point of that chart, if you multiply it out:
120,000 unvaccinated people were dying of covid per week
13,000 vaccinated people were dying
6000 vaccinated + boosted people were dying You can choose to be one of the 120,000, or the 6000. I know what I chose :) That said, one of the things that gets lost in here is that media and others did suggest at the start that vaccines would cause the end of covid by ending transmission (IE nobody would get sick anymore), despite that being mostly a hope of scientists, and not a guarantee.
That was wrong, and has caused a serious loss of trust that gets ignored, and causes people who point it out to often feel gaslit. We will build better vaccines for sure - the same way we try to build better software. I am part of a phase 1 trial of a next generation vaccine that tackles all variants at once (and seems very successful at it). Waiting for perfect software is a fools errand, the same way waiting for a perfect car is.
So i'd suggest not doing that. The question is always "are you better off with something or nothing". The answer to that question is very clear. [1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3063367/ |
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