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b_b · 1854 days ago · link · · parent · post: “Vaccines don’t save lives. Vaccinations save lives. A vaccine dose that remains in a vial is zero-percent effective.”
I don't think we've ever appropriately evaluated that as a society. Want to kill Bin Laden? Yes, ok, how badly? Badly enough that you'll risk a polio epidemic? Cool, let's do that. I hope that we've learned from covid that diseases don't tend to stay put. I don't know off hand what the polio vaccination coverage in the US is. I thought they had stopped doing it, but I know my kids have had it. So either they never stopped or they've brought it back. Not sure. Even if it's 100% the CIA fucked up royally in that mission.