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Re:Denmark to permanently cease using AstraZeneca vaccine by 0-_-0 on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @08:21AM (#26806075)
Because it's a kind of a trolley-problem that makes people make wrong decisions because of how society assigns blame. If the vaccine kills 1 person, they can be held directly responsible for that death. However, if the lack of vaccine kills 100 people, their deaths are the result of COVID, and would not be considered the result of the decision. In trolley problem terms, they would be blamed for pushing someone in front of the train to save others, but not for their inaction leading to a larger number of deaths.

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

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Re:Denmark to permanently cease using AstraZeneca vaccine by throwawayboise on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @01:36PM (#26810376)
And I think in general people are inherently equipped to handle the idea of getting sick and dying. It happens to everyone eventually; it's unavoidable. Death from something another person's actions can be blamed for is much less tolerable.
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Re:Denmark to permanently cease using AstraZeneca vaccine by londons_explore on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @08:31AM (#26806154)
And someone has already updated the wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem#Example_with_C...

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