What do you mean by the “benefit of a few”? How does anyone benefit from stiflin...

LgWoodenBadger · on Nov 30, 2020

"benefit of a few" meaning "allow those few that were adversely affected to sue for damages" which would have the follow-on effect of hampering vaccine development

_dh54 · on Nov 30, 2020

How can a vaccine have an adverse effect? Vaccines are safe

mikeyouse · on Nov 30, 2020

Vaccines are like 99.999% safe.. but we do give them to more than 100k people per year, so some people do suffer some unfortunate side effects including and up to seizures and brain damage. We've decided as a society that the benefits of widespread vaccination outweigh the legal rights of those harmed by their administration, so we've legislated away the ability to sue vaccine manufacturers for good-faith efforts at developing and administering vaccines.

I will gladly line up for the Covid vaccine and I'll definitely be vaccinating my children, but there is a remote risk of harm.

_dh54 · on Dec 1, 2020

If the possibility of “unfortunate side-effects” is so low then why remove the ability for legal recourse?

MacsHeadroom · on Dec 2, 2020

Because capitalism privatizes profits and socializes costs whenever possible.

The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 is the relevant law. The USSC upheld it 6-2 in a 2010 case.

LgWoodenBadger · on Nov 30, 2020

All vaccines in the US come with informational sheets that warn of possible dangers. The one I remember is Guillain Barre syndrome.

The risks are low, and the benefits of the vaccine vastly outweigh them.