
a trip back to 2017, when even tony still understood risk/reward and individual choice
| el gato malo19 hr ago | 453266 |
i like to allow people to state their positions in their own words. it’s no fair making up what they said or paraphrasing to rob them of nuance and of full expression.
so hear tony out.
because he speaks here with clarity and with nuance.
the year was 2017. he’s speaking about the smallpox vaccine. and he clearly understands risk/reward.
- smallpox is a disease FAR deadlier than covid.
- the smallpox vaccine has a severe adverse events rate that is easily 1/100th that of the covid vaccines (and probably quite a lot less than that. could easily be 1/1000th or less)
- AND it’s a one and done vaccine. you get the shot and you generate lifelong sterilizing immunity. you won’t get smallpox or spread it. you really are the “dead end” tony famously claimed the covid vaccinees would be.
and yet he says we should not bring it back because the vaccine has some rare side effects and this outweighs the benefit.