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This is the same framing used by the anti-mask sociopaths. ‘It doesn’t protect ME, so I can’t be inconvenienced.’ The more important effect is to lower the infection rate through society so we don’t infect our neighbors. When the population infection rate is so low to begin with, OF COURSE the ‘absolute risk reduction’ (for individuals, as you are framing it) will be low. But for the population, the relative rate is more appropriate since that’s what determines how many cases you’d expect in the population – and how fast or slow the virus then spreads.

Another way of putting it – using your framing, no one should ever get a measles vaccine, because your ‘absolute risk reduction’ is so close to zero you can’t measure it. Chances are, YOU are never going to get the measles, shot or no shot. This is the same selfish argument the anti-vaxers have been spouting for years.

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