Gavin de Becker

Or they would say, hey, at least you're better off.

We got those passengers closer to London.

In other words, they literally put death out of the equation and focus just on this.

The numbers.

And I don't care about the numbers.

I care about the people who are harmed, the individuals who are harmed.

Yeah.

So, you know, if you're really going to assess a product, like no parent would let a stranger walk up to their baby on the street and inject them with something they don't know what's in it, right?

And yet millions of parents do that every year in America by going to Long's or to Walgreens.

and getting a vaccine.

They don't know what's in it.

And they don't know about that 23-year-old pharmacist assistant who's measuring it out and giving it to you.

And they don't ask questions like, did your baby have an adverse reaction to this a week ago or what have you.

But I want to go right to your question, which is the assessment that we would have to do for anything, forget vaccines, for any kind of drug, is what's the likelihood of getting, in the case of vaccines, you have to say, what's the likelihood of getting the disease?

What's the likelihood of having a terrible consequence from the disease?

And does the vaccine work?

And does the vaccine have any harm for anybody, right?

Well, I just want to talk about a couple of these.

Tetanus vaccine.

In the United States, the number of people who died from tetanus in a decade is 13.