🧵Pet peeve: 'everyone should weigh the risks of #vaccines vs #COVID for themselves'. I have 2 issues here. #scicomm #healthliteracy #healthcomms #publichealth 1/4
First, you can weigh incorrectly or correctly. If I weighed the Earth, compared it to the Moon, and ended up determining that to me, personally, the Moon outweighed the Earth, I would not be right. 2/4
Second, the term 'themselves'. Risk calculation should include not just my risk for severe #COVID outcomes, but also the risk I pose to others while unknowingly carrying the virus. Why? If other's wellbeing as a reason is not compelling enough ('their problem'), then 3/4
think about how leaving more free way for the virus can contribute to infections, some of which may end up in the hospital. Once hospitals are full, 'the ice cream licks back' as the Hungarian saying goes. With no beds for me & loved ones, 'their problem' soon becomes mine. 4/4
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