The important point here is to make a comparison. If you took a similar representative sample of a non vaccinated group of individuals, (by gender, age, etc.) and looked at that group for death for instance, the death rate in that group from unknown causes is a dead heat for incidence with deaths in the vaccinated group. Take a look at the Matthew Herper Forbes stories in the OCF news feed about all this. His reporting on this issue makes it very clear.

Relative risk, when compared to other things in life is very low. But nothing is ever zero. So now you compare it to things that might just as likely happen to you, for instance driving on the freeway. What of your odds of being killed there?

You cannot live life in a protective bubble, and every choice you make from driving to the store, to getting a vaccination, has a relative risk/reward ratio to it. The problem with the way that the average non science based person thinks is that they generally believe that bad things like auto fatalities always happen to someone else� until reality changes their minds.

As someone that considers evidence based decision making part of his life, I would get vaccinated. But I am notorious for looking for bias in peoples opinions and scientific articles alike. Too often it is the key error in anyone's decision making.