That's how you feel as a man on the front line, I respect that. I just don't get the "more harm than good" you're talking about. The vaccines do feel rushed I dont disagree but in critical times, it's sometimes difficult to be 100% correct.
You playing semantics breh
Australia and NZ are islands and their density is super low so they are exceptions to the rule that the West have the utmost trouble to contain this.
Will there be complictions ? It's probable yes. However if you put in balance that 9k people on average are dying from this everyday worldwide, a 2 months inaction at this rate would mean 500k more bodies. Do we find it acceptable to wait for this so we can have a more refined data ?
You quote those deaths as a given. My point is that countries both in and out of the West have shown that rates could be much lower.
Regarding "net" downsides, she wasn't voicing that. She said that she needed 2 more months of data and didn't put in balance the current death rate so I don't see why you're pointing this out specifically.
She is netting off the potential downside of "delays" against the possible bad case downsides.
I'm not saying she's wrong or anything. Just that I fully understand why people want to put a stop to this asap as that's how I feel.
The core question is one of risk management. The question that has to be addressed is what is the worst case
possible (Unlikely) scenario, if something that could happen goes wrong, and what would that looks like relative to what we have now. And even after we rule out what we know could happen there is always the question of the totally unexpected. That is why we test and that is why we (normally) wait or roll out the vaccine in distinct, periodic waves.
Impossible < Unimaginable < Unlikely < Probable < Likely < Certainty
Just as (most) governments chose to err on the cautious side (and still do) because this is a new disease, extra care has to be taken in administering new tool based vaccines to effectively "the entire world". Because the high rate at which people will be given the vaccine any damage done could be large and hard-to-impossible to unwind. If we inject something "dangerous" into billions of people that would be a disaster beyond the scale of covid itself.
We also have to remember that on the vaccine "upside" it still remains to be shown that the vaccines only reduce covid to being seasonal or more broadly endemic rather than getting rid of it. We do not know yet it the vaccines stop people being infectious. And there are questions already about the effect of targeting just one part of the virus protein on efficacy. She raised that point more generally in the video.
Science rarely works seamlessly the first time so we should proceed more carefully.
We are in Phase 4 right?
To flesh out what I mean, consider that it would be undesirable to give the vaccine to everyone on Earth
tomorrow, even if we could achieve that.