Congratulations, you just made a person who generally does not get angry... very angry.
This is my least favorite counterargument in all of the anti-vax bullshit.
"It's okay if old people die."
Which you cannot say without also throwing disabled people under the bus. Because they have the exact same vulnerabilities and risk factors.
Which means you prioritize your "vaccine freedom" over some 8 year old with leukemia who had a good prognosis before COVID.
Both my mom and that 8 year old had the potential to survive.
My mom was getting treated for psoriatic arthritis and the treatment weakened her immune system. But she was not terminal. She was not critically ill. She still had years left in her lifespan.
But because she didn't want to suffer the pain of her arthritis on a constant basis, she had to die?
Does that sum up your belief?
Let's address some other ways you are wrong.
The mRNA vaccine platform wasn't new or experimental.
Scientists have been developing mRNA delivery systems since the 1990s, and by the 2010s, they had already tested mRNA vaccines in humans for Zika, rabies, and cancer therapies.
On top of that, COVID-19 is caused by a coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and researchers had already been working on vaccines for SARS-CoV-1 and MERS (two related coronaviruses) since the early 2000s.
That head start gave them a huge advantage.
So, no, this wasn’t a rushed “experiment.”
It was the culmination of decades of research, accelerated by a global crisis and tested in massive, well-run trials.
Calling it “experimental” is just a lazy excuse for ignoring science and pretending the deaths of the elderly and immunocompromised were acceptable losses.
No medicine in history is 100% safe. That is an impossible standard and expectation. But this vaccine turned out to be one of the safest we've ever created.
Tylenol is more dangerous.
Knee surgery is more dangerous.
Eating food is more dangerous.
Driving a fucking car is more dangerous.
Over 13 billion COVID vaccine doses have been safely given worldwide. Serious side effects are extremely rare. The deaths linked to them were so rare that they got lost in the noise of the data. It's a number so small inside a sample so huge that statistical mathematics cannot reliably estimate how tiny the number is. It is likely a fraction of a percent of a percent.
Unlike the millions lost to the virus itself.
COVID vaccines weren’t just effective, they were lifesaving. Globally, they likely prevented 14–20 million deaths in the first year alone.
In the US, around 3 million deaths and 18.5 million hospitalizations were prevented.
If this was a “dangerous experiment,” it might be the most successful one in human history.
You are promoting a ghoulish, dehumanizing belief that the deaths of the vulnerable are just the cost of your personal comfort. You are disrespecting the grief of hundreds of thousands of people who should still have their loved ones alive and well.
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