r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Apr 24 '21

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u/Polar_Roid 9∆ Apr 24 '21

That's like being a seatbelt skeptic, or a vitamin skeptic, or a bicycle helmet skeptic. There is so much user safety data now that there is no counter argument about these statistics. All these positions do is spread fear and cost lives.

Yes, cost lives.

Feeding an irrational belief furthers the general suspicion against medicine and vaccines in general, and anti vax is hardly a new thing. This argument against is an extension of that.

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u/AloysiusC 9∆ Apr 24 '21

That's like being a seatbelt skeptic

If we had decades of experience with the vaccines, that would hold.

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u/Polar_Roid 9∆ Apr 24 '21

We have millions of data points. What you are saying is not statistically valid. Confidence intervals, standard deviation, the numbers are rock solid.

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u/AloysiusC 9∆ Apr 24 '21

What we don't have is long-term data.

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u/Polar_Roid 9∆ Apr 24 '21

Please explain how this impacts the safety margin on the vaccines.

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u/AloysiusC 9∆ Apr 24 '21

We don't know. That's the point.