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Re:Is the US's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System broken? by cempaka on Friday November 17, 2023 @03:14PM (#38309383)
What was the justification for firing people from their jobs or excluding them from public accommodations for not taking a non-sterilizing vaccine?

The USA Today article you link is just a lot of the usual verbal gymnastics that was rolled out at the time: they still work against severe outcomes, sure lots of vaccinated people are getting infected but you have to use Bayesian analysis and compare against the proportion of the base population that was vaccinated, no vaccine is 100% effective so let's pretend these ones are just as good as the ones that are 99% effective, etc.

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Re:Is the US's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System broken? by ben_w on Saturday November 18, 2023 @07:45AM (#38318925)
> just as good as the ones that are 99% effective

How many vaccines do you think are 99% effective? Or even 90%?

The covid vaccine researchers would've been happy if it had only been 50% effective.

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