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You're a public official in Germany. You have a pandemic raging that already killed 75000 with at most 25% of population that had a disease. On the other hand you have a vaccine that kills 37 for 17 000 000 jabs provided (360 if scaled to 2 jabs to everyone).

One death is of course too many. 360 even more so. But if an alternative is an extra 75'000 I know which choice I would like my public officials to make.

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Everybody knows that the alternative is not an extra 75'000 deaths. Perhaps your implicit criticism of public officials is warranted, and I would love to see a well-reasoned argument -- but as it stands I think your comment is quite unhelpful.

Alternative is to extend the vaccination to younger or more willing crowds. It is basically win-win.

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