“Other people took the risk...”
Not much of a risk since, in round numbers, they had a 1 in 100,000 chance of a serious bad result from the vaccine. Compared to over a 1 in 1,000 risk of bad result if they got the virus if they weren’t prev infected.
Pretty good odds.
Yes. True. But there was some risk, especially early on, before we had anything to go by outside of the pre-release testing.
The early adopters were the brave.
About 1 in 20 hospitalized, 1 in 100 dead with COVID-19 infection. That's generalized across the population. Much less scary outcomes for younger, healthier people. Much more scary outcomes for older, less healthy people. But even that isn't universal. Like any disease, some people just seem to get it far worse for no apparent reason and some people sail through when everything says they shouldn't.