Believing in experts

[Dill]

(07-03-2023, 04:12 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: Military, nurses, government workers, and so on. Did it save lives? I don't know. But it did take several though. As for cost benefits? Your crazed and confused if you think drug companies and politicians didn't make friggen big bucks at the peoples' expense. 

I was thinking more along the lines of how many lives were saved with the vaccine vs how many might have been lost without it.

If a lot of lives were saved, millions maybe, that would be a "benefit" well worth the "peoples' expense," in my view. 

Whether and how much of a difference the vaccine made should be the prime factor in evaluating vaccine policy, shouldn't it? 

People at the Commonwealth Fund think the vaccine prevented 120 million infections and saved about 3.2 million lives.
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2022/two-years-covid-vaccines-prevented-millions-deaths-hospitalizations#:~:text=on%20our%20methods.-,Findings,million%20more%20COVID%2D19%20infections.

Yet you don't seem very interested in that factor.