No, the cutter incidence was worse than the disease, because the activated virus was injected into a population, whereas naturally only a tiny part would be exposed at the same level, and the rest would be exposed at a much lower level - that would give them immunity but not disease.
Cutter was, most definitely, much worse than the disease if you look at it from a population perspective.
The 1976 Guilian barre was at least comparable to the flu it was supposed to stop, if not worse. According to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_swine_flu_outbreak, the disease caused one death and 13 hospitalizations, and an uptick of Giullan barre reports - a disease that more often than not requires hospitalization and sometimes death. I can assure you it caused more than 13 hospitalizations, and - having known two GBS people who made a full recovery - a very long and painful months long process. So, at 50,000,000 immunized - a 1 in 1,000,000 would still be worse than the flu.
I am not anti vax even if HN constantly seems to interpret my comments as such.
I am vaccinated, so are my kids. But whenever I mention that immunizations have risks, I’m treated like a heretic.
Everyone is assuming something like cutter cannot happen again. This is a religious assumption, not a scientific one.