The major ones: what are the odds of getting polio? What are the odds of being paralyzed by polio? What are the odds of being paralyzed by the polio vaccine? What are the odds of dying from the polio vaccine? What are the odds of other types of negative vaccine side effects?
As you say, the question is what the costs are vs. the benefits. In case of the polio vaccine, I am pretty confident in saying that the benefits outweigh the costs almost universally.
This is relevant for if you want to say if it is worthwhile to get it. But the question was whether it 'works'.
That you would ask such a simplistic question suggests that you haven't even thought about it very much.
I haven't spent any time thinking about what counts as a vaccine 'working'. I don't think it's a very productive question. I'm not a fan of sloganeering, like works, or safe, or effective, because I think it hides a lot of stuff. Safe by what metric? Oh, by the one you specifically created for this product to meet or fail?
So you'll argue the hypothetical when it suits you, and then refuse to engage in the question and instead return to the concrete as if that's what I was getting at.
So fine. Are you now arguing that the mRNA jab has the same cost/benefit profile as the polio vaccine? Because there was no other reason to bring it up.
As you say, the question is what the costs are vs. the benefits. In case of the polio vaccine, I am pretty confident in saying that the benefits outweigh the costs almost universally.
This is relevant for if you want to say if it is worthwhile to get it. But the question was whether it 'works'.
I haven't spent any time thinking about what counts as a vaccine 'working'. I don't think it's a very productive question. I'm not a fan of sloganeering, like works, or safe, or effective, because I think it hides a lot of stuff. Safe by what metric? Oh, by the one you specifically created for this product to meet or fail?
So you'll argue the hypothetical when it suits you, and then refuse to engage in the question and instead return to the concrete as if that's what I was getting at.
So fine. Are you now arguing that the mRNA jab has the same cost/benefit profile as the polio vaccine? Because there was no other reason to bring it up.