So of those one in twenty people who did get anaphylaxis, did they survive?

There isn't any point asking that question, nor is there any point in asking if a blood test is being developed to use first and I accept that quite easily - these are not relevant questions for 95% of people.

My Mullumbimby doctor hasn't retired yet.  He had the advantage of having been there one time in the hospital emergency room when I was brought in with anaphylactic shock from a tick bite.  I booked in for an appt with him and waited.  would he remember, it is over 30 years ago.  Yes he remembered.  And he's a nice man, we got talking.  He didn't want to give me the certificate, but he had to.  He would have done everything possible to help me get vaccinated.  

It's not that either of us, let alone the specialist I had spoken to previously, understand the chemistry enough to do anything other than guess but when I said to him I thought the vaccine might be designed to stick around in your body he said yes he thought it was and so when I said the thing that frightened me was that you couldn't just pull the needle out and wait a bit, I would still be in shock, he completely got it and started writing out the certificate. 

He would have liked to be more directly helpful but it still felt good - I felt regularised.  accepted by the medical community.

He was pretty amazing.  It required common sense, intelligence, a grasp on logic and good faith to make sense of the hospital records written by Dr Deepak after he shocked me twice with contrast dye.  I told him how both Dr Deepak and then the specialist had told me 95% of people are okay, but I think I'm part of the 5%, I'd replied.  And then as I was leaving he couldn't help it, he did the same thing.  95% of people are okay with the vaccine he said.

It's like telling a pregnant woman with red hair, and her red-haired husband standing beside her, that she is 90% likely to have a baby that doesn't have red hair.

Sure, in the general population I reply, but my chances are very different.

It's not hard to understand is it, is it? 

IMO, professional circles are just as full of concept cuckoos as religious circles.