UK health care workers were one of the main groups affected by Pandemrix-related narcolepsy. It was a bit of a scandal over here, though perhaps not the most well-known one.

I thought it would be useful to dig out some numbers here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemrix

> The increased risk of narcolepsy due to vaccination was 1 in 18400 or 0.005%

https://www.nhs.uk/news/cancer/swine-flu-deaths-examined/

seems to state an infection fatality rate of the 2009 H1N1 of 0.026%

The "issue" I've heard with simply referencing fatality rates is that the fatality rate does not equally apply to all age groups/risk factors.

So anyone under 30 has a dramatically lower chance of dying due to covid, and therefore would likely have a higher risk of a serious side effect when compared to the risks of contracting covid.

It's an interesting dilemma, for the good of public health you have to have certain populations actually increase their own personal risk, at the benefit of the majority overall.

Not sure if you intended to reply to me as my comment was about H1N1 (which I think had an age bias in the other direction)

I think that's how it's going to go down in most countries. No need to waste precious vaccines on us who can work remotely and can limit our outings to the local grocery store and the park.