Statistical illiteracy.
Info is that 20 per 100K have some "serious" side effect (not fatality) *after* vaccines (across age groups).
Assuming due to vaxx, compare to ~2-5K per 100K unvaxxed hospitalized owing to Covid.

[Sent to me by antivaxx #idiot]

2) Now regardless of your computation of the risks for unvaxxed and Simpson's eff. [vaxxed are older, infection rate can be higher, etc.], it remains that we are talking 2 order of magnitude difference.
3) Note: serious does not necessarily mean hospitalization. And, critically, includes people who got sick for other reasons.
4) The idiot, incidentally, is connected to Accenture. Which makes these statements even more worrisome.

5) The antivaxx pple's strategy here is nitpicking details when they are off by 2 orders of magnitude.
Do not engage. That's an old litigator's strategy.

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