276 sats \ 11 replies \ @kr 30 Mar \ on: Childhood Vaccine Schedule Thoughts and Questions health
the legal immunity from liability strikes me as a big red flag.
can someone make the case for why this immunity from consumer lawsuits should persist?
I was trying to fashion this off of some of your great discussion starter posts. I feel like you do a really good job of getting into your questions and posing them succinctly. I still need to work on that.
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That's the real reason, imo, but the official rationale was that irrational anti-vaxxers could take down this entire vital public health industry through scientifically baseless lawsuits.
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If their rationale were true that would mean the legal system is a failure. Its like when they talk about sin taxes and then reject the idea that taxes affect business and consumer behavior. When one pays attention long enough and uses consistent logic one comes to the conclusion they are full of it.
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You hear people make a similar case for granting immunity to Big Ag companies like Bayer (Monsanto).
My experience with jury selection certainly didn't leave me with a favorable impression of jurors, but liability is too important of a feedback mechanism to ever let someone operate without it.
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Immunity for vaccine industry
Sounds terrible
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That was the official reasoning. Basically, the civil suits from those outlier cases would make it not worthwhile to manufacture the vaccines at all.
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