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Originally Posted by 27offsuit
Not picking on you personally, but I am so ****ing tired of this take.
Once someone irl says this to me, and many have, they are instantly on my dullard idiot list.
Because I am a dullard idiot, I suppose, i'm going to need you to explain to me why I'm a dullard idiot.
I am not arguing that if we accept the risk of activity X (dying in a car crash on the way to the vaccination center), then we necessarily should accept or be indifferent to the lesser risk of activity Y (getting the J&J vaccine), regardless of the benefits of activity Y or how quickly the risks of activity Y could be lessened or mitigated.
If the benefits of the J&J vaccine were trivial, or if the risk could be minimized or eliminated at little cost to society, then of course it wouldn't much matter much how the risk of activity Y compared to activity X. The obvious answer would be to pause and reduce the risk. But as far as I know, that isn't the scenario we are facing. To the contrary, we are in a situation where days matter and we have to decide what level of risk we are willing to tolerate in the very immediate term in order to get the benefits of the vaccine. And that is very close to same calculus you have to make when you decide whether to incur the risk associated with traveling to the vaccination center.