One of the major problems with medicine is that the entire system (ie. the legal penalities) have all been designed so that you are liable for anything bad that happens if a medical intervention is not given, but you are never liable for the adverse events of an intervention given.
So for example, if vaccinating 1 million people saves on…
One of the major problems with medicine is that the entire system (ie. the legal penalities) have all been designed so that you are liable for anything bad that happens if a medical intervention is not given, but you are never liable for the adverse events of an intervention given.
So for example, if vaccinating 1 million people saves one life (because the vaccine works) and the vaccine also directly kills 500 people, the fact that you failed to save that one life is the only thing that will be trumpeted and had a big deal made about it whereas the 500 deaths will be ignored or described as harmful misinformation that creates hesitancy that prevents that one life from being saved.
You find this pattern with a lot of different pharmaceutical drugs or surgeries and there is a very strong bias to prosecute physicians who do not give therapies they feel are too dangerous (in fact the way medical malpractice is set up, you can only be convicted if you deviated from the established standard of care, so, once again, only failing to give a FDA sanctioned drug can result in legal consequences).
When the lockdowns happened, it also highlighted this problem, because it was obvious the lockdowns would cause much more harm than lives that were saved (and were based on highly innaccurate simplistic models that were admitted to have ignored the adverse consequences of those policies)...but any time they were challenged, the focus was simply on the people who could die if you did not lock down.
Thus, we get absurd graphs like this and no willingness to challenge the clear absurdity of them.
See my post above about Paxlovid. The vaccines are almost guaranteed to prevent "severe" symptoms ... but for some reason millions of vaccinated people (like Fauci and Biden) are being prescribed Paxlovid ... to prevent severe symptoms. I'm missing something.
One of the major problems with medicine is that the entire system (ie. the legal penalities) have all been designed so that you are liable for anything bad that happens if a medical intervention is not given, but you are never liable for the adverse events of an intervention given.
So for example, if vaccinating 1 million people saves one life (because the vaccine works) and the vaccine also directly kills 500 people, the fact that you failed to save that one life is the only thing that will be trumpeted and had a big deal made about it whereas the 500 deaths will be ignored or described as harmful misinformation that creates hesitancy that prevents that one life from being saved.
You find this pattern with a lot of different pharmaceutical drugs or surgeries and there is a very strong bias to prosecute physicians who do not give therapies they feel are too dangerous (in fact the way medical malpractice is set up, you can only be convicted if you deviated from the established standard of care, so, once again, only failing to give a FDA sanctioned drug can result in legal consequences).
When the lockdowns happened, it also highlighted this problem, because it was obvious the lockdowns would cause much more harm than lives that were saved (and were based on highly innaccurate simplistic models that were admitted to have ignored the adverse consequences of those policies)...but any time they were challenged, the focus was simply on the people who could die if you did not lock down.
Thus, we get absurd graphs like this and no willingness to challenge the clear absurdity of them.
yes. the focus on saving deaths from disease X seems to always outweigh the deaths created by the cure.
It's a great business model!
See my post above about Paxlovid. The vaccines are almost guaranteed to prevent "severe" symptoms ... but for some reason millions of vaccinated people (like Fauci and Biden) are being prescribed Paxlovid ... to prevent severe symptoms. I'm missing something.