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Title text: The vaccine stuff seems pretty simple. But if you take a closer look at the data, it's still simple, but bigger. And slightly blurry. Might need reading glasses.


Transcript[Cueball, White Hat and Megan walking]

Cueball: I try to meet people where they are, but I have such a hard time with anti-vaxxers.

[Zoom out; a tree to the right is visible]

Cueball: The pandemic brought with it so much confusing stuff.
Cueball: Ambiguous data, weird tradeoffs, disagreements, dilemmas, and uncertainty.

[Zoom in on Cueball]

Cueball: It just feels like a miracle that the best and most effective intervention to reduce suffering also turned out to be one of the easiest and simplest.
Cueball: That never happens!

[Cueball, White Hat and Megan sitting around the tree]

Cueball: I hate that people are working so hard to make it complicated when it's one of the few things in this world that isn't.


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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Except the risk of serious side effects from the vaccine is higher than from COVID, in healthy young individuals. But keep believing everything the authority figures tell you, I'm sure it will work out great. And btw, the vaccinated still got sick and transmitted the virus even when asymptomatic so yeah.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why should I trust you more than "the authority figures" ? What are your figures that I should trust ?

Why should I trust some unknown person on the internet that give me some facts without any evidence ?

Why shouldn't I trust the data that has been gathered by global scientific communities, validated by experts, cross checked by pairs, some of them I've read and understood myself, and also relevant to my actual observations ?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Because they're bought out frauds, their data is fraudulent.