2022-11-09
I hate to keep banging this drum but whilst the powers-that-be continue, so must we.
The Daily Sceptic brings up a useful article (actually one among several in today's email) which reviews the reasons why some people may not be too keen on Covid vaccines, or even on vaccines in general.
Vaccines have the distinction that they are a class of medical interventions that are routinely given to healthy people who are not sick - yet they pose risks to health that every authority acknowledges, in principle if not in practice.
This means that any justification for such an approach must rely on good statistics properly and very carefully (it's a minefield for experts, let alone the man on the Clapham omnibus) gathered and analysed over the requisite period of time. This was clearly not practicable for the Covid shots (therefore they could not be justified) yet that did not stop the authorities claiming "safe and effective" on the basis of what turned out to be essentially inadequate (some would suggest possibly fraudulent) evidence.
This being the case, the man or woman on the Clapham omnibus stood a vanishingly small chance of making any reasonably well-informed decision - they could only use their common sense, and decide on the basis that it was likely risky ... but the balance of risk they would be unable to determine. So their choice was reduced to whether or not to believe the authorities.
