As the vast majority of people understand the term, a vaccine is an injection of deactivated microorganisms designed to trigger prevention of infection and transmission. The entire concept of herd immunity via vaccination is derived from this definition of the term.
An injection that merely reduces symptoms of a disease is not a "vaccine" as the term is used and understood by the vast majority of people. Such an injection is also incapable of triggering herd immunity or protecting vulnerable members of society who cannot handle the injection.
Given the stated purpose of covid-19 vaccines is to reduce symptoms - not to prevent infection or transmission - all policies based on "percentage of vaxxed" are baseless and dishonest.
All claims that the vaccines do prevent infection/transmission are suspect because:
The CDC deliberately stopped reporting breakthrough cases two months ago, so we have no idea how many vaccinated people are catching/spreading covid-19
The only data we do have to support the claim that vaccines reduce infection/transmission come from Pfizer, a company that has already received the largest fine in US history for lying about their products
In the event that these vaccines do end up preventing infection/transmission, we would then have evidence that the injections are doing something other than what they were ostensibly intended to do. There is no guarantee that all such side effects will be positive.
As far as testing goes: a vaccine becomes a safe vaccine when it has been sufficiently tested. They've been trying (and failing) to get FDA approval for these vaccines for over a decade. They only obtained Emergency Use Authorization because pharma pulled strings and had HCQ and Ivermectin declared ineffective treatments for covid-19. A drug cannot receive EUA if an effective approved treatment already exists.
If covid-19 vaccines end up having no long-term side effects for the vast majority of users, that will be good a thing. It won't change a damn thing with regard to the lies and abuses that were committed to rush these shots to market and coerce people to take them.
As the vast majority of people understand the term, a vaccine is an injection of deactivated microorganisms designed to trigger prevention of infection and transmission. The entire concept of herd immunity via vaccination is derived from this definition of the term.
An injection that merely reduces symptoms of a disease is not a "vaccine" as the term is used and understood by the vast majority of people. Such an injection is also incapable of triggering herd immunity or protecting vulnerable members of society who cannot handle the injection.
Given the stated purpose of covid-19 vaccines is to reduce symptoms - not to prevent infection or transmission - all policies based on "percentage of vaxxed" are baseless and dishonest.
All claims that the vaccines do prevent infection/transmission are suspect because:
The CDC deliberately stopped reporting breakthrough cases two months ago, so we have no idea how many vaccinated people are catching/spreading covid-19
The only data we do have to support the claim that vaccines reduce infection/transmission come from Pfizer, a company that has already received the largest fine in US history for lying about their products
In the event that these vaccines do end up preventing infection/transmission, we would then have evidence that the injections are doing something other than what they were ostensibly intended to do. There is no guarantee that all such side effects will be positive.
As far as testing goes: a vaccine becomes a safe vaccine when it has been sufficiently tested. They've been trying (and failing) to get FDA approval for these vaccines for over a decade. They only obtained Emergency Use Authorization because pharma pulled strings and had HCQ and Ivermectin declared ineffective treatments for covid-19. A drug cannot receive EUA if an effective approved treatment already exists.
If covid-19 vaccines end up having no long-term side effects for the vast majority of users, that will be good a thing. It won't change a damn thing with regard to the lies and abuses that were committed to rush these shots to market and coerce people to take them.