INTRODUCING! The official GAW Holiday "Kid's Table!" Who's sitting there this holiday season? All the little children who aren't big enough to sit at the adult's table, yet! 😁
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🧠 These people are stupid!
What you are describing (and very well to your credit), are what vaccines were originally defined as before the pandemic. The definition I grew up having learned, was that a vaccine involved the introduction of a weakened or killed form of a virus, designed to prompt the body's defenses to identify and defeat the handicapped virus strain--and in doing so provides immunity as the immune system records and remembers the characteristics of the virus for future potential encounters.
However, as we've come to learn on this board, the definition of "vaccine" has since been altered to where an inoculation need only to provide the effect of decreasing symptoms in the event the person does catch the virus, in order to be considered a "vaccine", and immunity seems to be almost unnecessary under this new definition.
Not exactly. It’s still a vaccine. Vaccines are meant to give immunity to the recipient for the strain that is targeted by the cocktail within the shot. However, as a virus evolves, new variants and slightly altered strains are developed, so while the vaccine can provide some protection against the sickness, it won’t be perfect, especially when it’s early on and when there are so many constantly evolving variants. This is why currently people who are vaccinated are still getting sick, and why oftentimes those who are vaccinated feel less severe symptoms than those who are not (as you pointed out)
This has always been the case, and why people get annual flu shots and regular boosters for some of the other vaccines they received previously (such as tetanus). I wouldn’t say the definition has changed as much as people’s understanding has changed
Also, the whole argument that these vaccines "decrease the severity of symptoms", always struck me as something unscientific that cannot even be quantifiably measured. For if a vaccinated person gets covid and has relatively mild symptoms, one cannot make a definitive comparison to what that experience would have been like if they caught covid and weren't vaccinated.
For plenty of unvaccinated persons contract covid and experience relatively mild symptoms that would be of the exact same magnitude or even less severe.
No, friend. The CDC changed the literal definition of the word vaccine. I'm not being hyperbolic in the slightest. Here, look.
https://m.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/cdc-changes-definition-of-vaccine-so-it-cant-be-interpreted-to-mean-that-vaccines-are-100-effective_3990135.html?utm_source=Morningbrief&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mb-2021-09-10&mktids=6abe19cb35999bcba2e507074014bee2&est=2ssdHH5oPKMx1JhlHx6HGyMVuspDmDI7B%2B2XIxe8Z%2FTm12fSPnHdTzPU6xOf9EulWM%2BL
I suppose the way they define it now has always been how I understood vaccines to work, so this doesn’t really shock me.
I gotcha.