Does the doctor give the pregnant woman that vaccine? (I meant same difference about "temporal recommendation" vs "recommending against")
> Ergo: The Jannsen vaccine is better than getting covid without it.
If you had already recovered from covid and were younger, the upside was negligible, so I don't think it would meet "grossly outweigh".
> It is blanketly recommended before coming in contact with HPV.
It seems to be recommended for ages 9 to 26, so presumably there is a downside for those younger than 9.
(https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/hpv/hcp/recommendations.htm...)
If you just compare the downsides of a successful vaccine (which is not all vaccines) to the downsides of the disease it targets, it should obviously always come out that the vaccine was a net win. But you can see how that gets pretty far from "there is no downside to any vaccine" right?
Chat gpt mentions oral polio. You're probably better off having had the oral polio vaccine if you are 100% going to be exposed to polio. But you wouldn't be doing a random first world resident a favor advising them to get the oral polio vaccine (which isn't suggested by "there is no downside to any vaccine")
So granted, you have an infinitely better argument than the original. And maybe that's the argument they meant to make.