once we go through the analysis and find how to estimate the benefit of vaccination from data, we do not have to repeat the entire analysis from scratch. As discussed in the Introduction, the same estimand (i.e., recipe for answering the query) will remain valid and, as long as the diagram does not change, can be applied to the new data and produce a new estimate for our query. It is because of this robustness, I conjecture, that human intuition is organized around causal, not statistical, relations.
