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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <s42eaq$ork$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
> Walking destinations on a map are further away than they appear.

You are assuming, without evidence, that a different strategy, namely 
playing down the side effects, would not have been much worse.