On: Long-term studies of Covid vaccines hurt by placebo recipients getting immunized

[guscost]

Either way, the higher-order effects will continue and cascade in perpetuity. The world is not a well-controlled experiment, and if you think there is an obvious “better” choice here which can be separated from all the context, then you have no idea how the world works.

[hprotagonist → guscost]

and if you think all choices are obviously bad (because there's no discernable 'better'), then i don't want you running a public health office.

(disclaimer: i've run experiments with patients, i'm well aware of how messy the world is)

[guscost → hprotagonist]

> i'm well aware of how messy the world is

No, you are not. Not even close.