Does the presentation of statistics make it feel as if the author is diminishing the suffering of others?
Actual question.
Actual question.
This isn't about suffering really. The chances are that no suffering will take place from having a vaccine.
What I'm trying to do is remind people that their lives are not currently risk free, so comparing their perceived current zero risk of suffering to the now-real risk of suffering from getting vaccinated is an incorrect comparison. We are all, every day, at risk of something bad happening to us, and it's this amount of current risk we should be comparing any new risk to, not our perceived zero risk.
The increase in risk from being vaccinated is very small compared to that, but more importantly compared to the benefits of us all getting vaccinated.