> 6 cases out of 7 million people. What a disaster. This is going to get people killed. And it's going to create more vaccine hesitancy. These people don't understand cost-benefit analysis. They keep making mistakes by orders of magnitude.
I am seeing this argument from people of all political views this morning, but I am most surprised to see it from the political left. Why isn't the same data-driven approach used when we're talking about policing, or gun violence, or traffic deaths? In all these cases, the frequency of negative outcomes (policing deaths of unarmed black people, homicides committed with guns, traffic fatalities per mile traveled) is very low and when weighed with the positive outcomes, it is clear that people are acting irrationally when they try to defund police, or ban firearms, or restrict driving. And yet, the data is never brought up so directly in those conversations by either everyday people or news media.
The J&J vaccine issue is frankly less alarming to me than this open hypocrisy or disconnect in our societal discourse.
> 6 cases out of 7 million people. What a disaster. This is going to get people killed. And it's going to create more vaccine hesitancy. These people don't understand cost-benefit analysis. They keep making mistakes by orders of magnitude.
I am seeing this argument from people of all political views this morning, but I am most surprised to see it from the political left. Why isn't the same data-driven approach used when we're talking about policing, or gun violence, or traffic deaths? In all these cases, the frequency of negative outcomes (policing deaths of unarmed black people, homicides committed with guns, traffic fatalities per mile traveled) is very low and when weighed with the positive outcomes, it is clear that people are acting irrationally when they try to defund police, or ban firearms, or restrict driving. And yet, the data is never brought up so directly in those conversations by either everyday people or news media.
The J&J vaccine issue is frankly less alarming to me than this open hypocrisy or disconnect in our societal discourse.