This is not supposed to be commentary on covid vaccines.
These are some of the people who has taken part in the very essential trials, that resulted vaccines being available to everyone, and has suffered the adverse effects for it.
We normally see these people as a statistics, a number, or a percentage on some CDC announcement. I think these people deserve to be seen and acknowledged in person, If not by the state and authorities, then at least by everyone who got the vaccine and is thankful for it.
If you don't think Johnson, an anti-science hyper-partisan, just wants these people to be acknowledged, then you're very naive. This is absolutely intended to be commentary.
The ratio of benefit to (individual) cost of vaccines is dramatically lower than almost every other drug.
Do you (or Johnson) post things about how we should "appreciate" and not forget the people who are harmed by other medical miracles, like immunotherapy?
If you're posting this in good faith (which I believe you are), then you're falling for exactly the fallacy that Johnson is trying to promote: that the scientific community is under-selling and under-discussing the risks of the vaccine.
It's part of a fear-mongering strategy that abuses the human tendency to extrapolate small edge cases as more significant than they actually are.
> that the scientific community is under-selling and under-discussing the risks of the vaccine.
> human tendency to extrapolate small edge cases as more significant than they actually are
No. That is not at all what I am trying to say. That is not even my impression from this. And I have tried to make it clear by these comments.
>Do you (or Johnson) post things about how we should "appreciate" and not forget the people who are harmed by other medical miracles, like immunotherapy?
I would, if I come across them.
For the same reason we remember war heros and similar figures who had done a great service for the world/country that costed their very own lives.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 47.7 ms ] threadThese are some of the people who has taken part in the very essential trials, that resulted vaccines being available to everyone, and has suffered the adverse effects for it.
We normally see these people as a statistics, a number, or a percentage on some CDC announcement. I think these people deserve to be seen and acknowledged in person, If not by the state and authorities, then at least by everyone who got the vaccine and is thankful for it.
Also, I made it clear in this comment so that responses such as this would be avoided.
Do you (or Johnson) post things about how we should "appreciate" and not forget the people who are harmed by other medical miracles, like immunotherapy?
If you're posting this in good faith (which I believe you are), then you're falling for exactly the fallacy that Johnson is trying to promote: that the scientific community is under-selling and under-discussing the risks of the vaccine.
It's part of a fear-mongering strategy that abuses the human tendency to extrapolate small edge cases as more significant than they actually are.
No. That is not at all what I am trying to say. That is not even my impression from this. And I have tried to make it clear by these comments.
>Do you (or Johnson) post things about how we should "appreciate" and not forget the people who are harmed by other medical miracles, like immunotherapy?
I would, if I come across them.
For the same reason we remember war heros and similar figures who had done a great service for the world/country that costed their very own lives.
There people made a risky choice for the benefit of the others. That is exactly why I think these people deserves acknowledgement and support.
I don't know how this site and people here can be so fucking cold.