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If you don't want it, that's your business. But no one should be standing on the hose for the rest of us.

That's okay. We need guinea pigs. Let's just hope it's not the next Pandemrix (whatever you are getting).

I'm a little confused. The worst case scenario for Pandemrix is a tiny chance of developing narcolepsy. Literally a few tens of people for a country. Is that wrong?

It seems that would be a very acceptable risk compared to 1% of people dying and 5 years of lockdown...

The lockdown is not a consequence of COVID. The fact that (especially) young people were affected means you need to compare the lethality of these younger groups and that one is below 0.1% (under the age of 60 in Sweden).

Is it still worth the risk then for these groups?

Objectively YES. A 0.1% chance of dying is much worse than a 0.0001% chance of narcolepsy.

And that's without adding "Long Covid" damage or the lockdown or anything else.

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