At the risk of sounding callous, since a life lost is sad, it was their choice.
Article says that its been 2 deaths in 10 years in a country of over 320 to 340 million+. If those two deaths had happen in 2025 alone, the absolute risk of anyone dying, vaccinated or not is about 0.000000589%. Now divide that risk over 10 years and even compensating for a smaller US population, we are now talking astronomically small.
Like, if someone is worried over those odds then they would not be able to move or exist, rationally. Sometimes people have bad luck. I come from a 3rd world country and when I asked the parents, they said that measels was never seen as a serious disease by anyone in the aggregate. So to me this whole story comes off as a bit like fear mongering due to orange man bad.
To be fair. I wanted to look for any studies re: Vaccination risks, if out of sheer Scientific curiosity. And surprisingly, there seems to be a lot of reluctance in people wanting to do solid, well powered research on this topic, outside observational studies. But found one in the internet archive. Feel free to take a look, the scope was 2 years and obviously pre-Covid. Certainly wish there were more or better studies. These are not just for the MMR shot:
Death - Adverse Events Associated with Childhood Vaccines - NCBI Bookshelf](https://web.archive.org/web/20190310003733/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK236284/)
"VAERS began operation in November 1990. By July 31, 1992, there were over 17,000 reports in VAERS, almost 11,000 of which concerned vaccines covered by the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. Of the total number of reports, just over 2,500 of them were considered to be "serious," which is defined as the following: the patient died, suffered a life-threatening illness, or suffered a reaction that resulted in, or prolonged, hospitalization or that resulted in permanent disability."
Hey, I think you are replying to me? But Iwas not the one who said, "in the long run," that was the poster above me.
I did not make that claim. But nevertheless, if I may, 25 years from now, is a long time. I agree that many things can change. But right not, when it comes to privacy, the next 5-10 years do not look good.
I use Linux on all my machines due to privacy, and tech background, I like Linux, and because I support FOSS. If you do too, we are less than 5% of all users, likely closer to 4%.
I use Firefox based browsers, and if you do too, we are less than 4% of all internet users. Closer to 3%.
If you use the Fediverse. The entire Fediverse cannot be more than 100 million. I posted elsewhere that all Lemmy users are less than 433,000, total. We are likely under 20 million or maybe a tad more? FB has like 3 billion. Twitter has hundreds of millions, I believe. Even Bluesky is like 32 million. Feel free to fact check me on that, it has been a while since I last checked.
Everything is turning into subscriptions services and at least in my circle of friends, when I mentioned the fact that people have bought corporate microphones that listen to everything that they say, with clips of those going to corporate, they all accept it as fact, but there follows this weird uncomfortable cognitive dissonance where people accept it but do not want to really think about it because they like asking Alexa for weather alerts and to play music, etc. And they are all fine with it. When I deal with normie people, they are 100% on board with giving away all privacy if it saves them a click or two. Maybe in 25 years it may be different, but this is not changing in 5 years. That is for sure. Maybe not even 10 or more. The majority is likely to not really change in that time. Since tech trends are heading into even less privacy, in the aggregate.