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Re:Israel’s Covid-19 boosters are preventing infections, new... by nradov on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @12:11PM (#28381711)
There is no such thing as safety, only varying degrees of risk. Everyone has a different risk tolerance. Failure to explicitly quantify acceptable risks leads to people making invalid assumptions and talking past each other.
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Re:Israel’s Covid-19 boosters are preventing infections, new... by refurb on Thursday September 02, 2021 @05:37AM (#28390171)
This is very true - I remember a colleague getting slapped down by the FDA when he said his company's FDA-approved drug was "safe". "There is no 'safe' drug", he was told, "only acceptable risk-benefit tradeoffs".

In addition, what is acceptable on a national level (e.g. 50 deaths from vaccination side effects) may not be acceptable on a individual basis (e.g. you die from a vaccine side effect).

Just like people dismiss the risk of Covid until it kills a family member, the flip side is people dismiss the risk of vaccination until it kills a family member.

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