Re:AstraZeneca may have provided incomplete efficacy data NIAID
by slibhb on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @09:48AM
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That's not "in more immediate terms". It involves peering into the future and it implies the belief that we can perform a cost benefit analysis and therefore remove the moral and political elements from decision making.
When I say immediate, I'm talking about this:
> 2. We have a moral obligation to have conversations in public that involve the safety of injecting substances into people. Regardless of "cost benefit analysis," people simply have a right to be privy to these conversations. It's better for things to go worse and respect this right than for things to go better and not respect it.
I would rather have more people die in an open society than less people die in a closed one.
Absolutely! That's why I said it has to include:
> "how many people die if we pause vaccinations for several weeks and it turns out not to have been an issue"
as a consideration.