<i>First, the anticipated loss in the case of that 0.1% scenario is infinite: you die. A rational person would do anything possible to lower the probability of that happening.</i><p>Well, compared to 0.93% chance of dying in a motor vehicle crash[1] the same rational person would do anything possible to avoid motor vehicles. Based on the percentages in the article my chance of catching covid and dying from it is 0.003%, so I'm not gonna take the vaccine.<p>On a side note I am not surprised to read that the author of the article is a "biotech entrepreneur".<p>[1] <a href="https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/all-injuries/preventable-death-overview/odds-of-dying/" rel="nofollow">https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/all-injuries/preventable-death-o...</a>
>4500 deaths were reported in VAERS as potentially having any sort of a connection:<p>This number is useless without also stating the estimated percentage of the actual adverse events are actually reported. It would be great if authors such as these would try to gather information about it and try to include it in their articles promoting vaccines.<p>It seems that COVID vaccines are not even in the list of vaccines that are to be reported by law, at least as per this document<p><a href="https://vaers.hhs.gov/docs/VAERS_Table_of_Reportable_Events_Following_Vaccination.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://vaers.hhs.gov/docs/VAERS_Table_of_Reportable_Events_...</a><p>Had a strange talk with other user about this here [1]<p>So without actually enforcing that all doctors (and only doctors) are reporting, to the best of their judgement, all the adverse events following vaccines, the numbers from VAERS cannot be trusted, one way or another.<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27513984" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27513984</a>