[Info-vax] [Totally OT] Covid-19 vaccine situation

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-03-31, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> In article <icjgb6FluasU2 at mid.individual.net>, Andy Burns
><usenet at andyburns.uk> writes: 
>
>> Phillip Helbig wrote:
>> 
>> > However, most people don't have a good understanding
>> > of relative risk, and playing it safe avoids more people becoming
>> > sceptical about vaccinations in general.
>> 
>> I think playing stop/start/stop/start makes people more sceptical, not less.
>
> I'm not sure.  At least it shouldn't.  Revising policy in the light of 
> new data is the way to go.  The alternative is to wait until it is so 
> bad that there is no easy way out.
>

In parts of Europe (such as France) it has had exactly that effect.

Confidence in vaccines (and especially the AZ vaccine) has dropped
through the floor as a direct result of Macron's comments and this
stop/start/stop/start process.

This lack of confidence and the number of people now refusing to have
a vaccine as a result is damaging the ability of these parts of Europe
to get the virus under control (and especially before it mutates into
something that the current vaccines are not effective against).

Simon.

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