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This would be acceptable to me if the vaccinations were in any way comparable. The diseases you speak of have been known for centuries (I am comfortable being wrong on that) and the vaccines have been tested and are understood as part of being distributed for decades.

This is a common argument, and honestly it's garbage.

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Actually, the vaccines they used decades ago are definitely not the same ones they use today. For starters, vaccines from centuries ago tended to have actual non-zero mortality rates.

Vaccines are never tested "for decades" either, because people kind of assume that it is highly unlikely that there are super-long-term side effects from small acute doses. I would tend to agree.

The argument is therefore not garbage at all.

"the vaccines have been tested and are understood as part of being distributed for decades."

Obviously during the first years they were in use these vaccines had not been "distributed for decades". That's the era we're in with COVID.

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