Denmark to permanently cease using AstraZeneca vaccine

Re:Denmark to permanently cease using AstraZeneca vaccine by de_keyboard on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @09:50AM (#26807036)

(2) leads to fewer deaths overall than (1). (1) gives better quality of life to the healthy than (2). (3) leads to fewer deaths than (1) or (2), but it requires political will. If you can pull it off, (3) is what you want. That's a big "if" though.

As a healthy person, I personally would have been better off under (1). However, I think the economic and emotional damage of that number of deaths would have been too much for society as a whole.

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Re:Denmark to permanently cease using AstraZeneca vaccine by scarby2 on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @04:40PM (#26812761)

I'm not certain the emotional damage around the deaths would be worse than the emotional damage around the restrictions. Same with the economic damage, I'm entirely certain the the economic damaged caused by the death of a large amount of largely economically inactive persons would have been way less than the economic damage caused by forcibly shutting down large chunks of the economy.

The whole 1 vs 2 thing is just a matter of how much must the whole suffer for the benefit of the few?

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