told you explicitly that if you got vaccinated you would not get covid
A common lie folks. One that is never acknowledged by the anti-vaxxers. Science said the vaccines offered 95% protection - see below - and officials said the vaccines would protect people.
The simple-minded, the misinformed, and the malicious chose to interpret that as "I'll never get the virus".
Some of them still choose/claim to hear that all these years later.
And that was before the arrival of the variants of concern, against which the vaccines had not been tested, and which turned out to be more dangerous.
forcing everyone to get vaccinated clearly would not protect grandma
See folks? She's willfully or mistakenly choosing to interpret "protect" as "100% she will never get it" instead of "severity and mortality will be reduced".
Perhaps 95% protection is too subtle a concept for her to grasp.
Back to "folks". I was optimistic about you my little NPC. The programming is strong in this creature.
Officials categorically stated that if you got vaccinated you could not get infected or pass it on. Then cases amid the vaccinated came out and they were just "break through" cases. You are having to retcon what they said in order to deal with the fact that they lied and this does not work, apart from any health risks.
A common lie folks. One that is never acknowledged by the anti-vaxxers. Science said the vaccines offered 95% protection - see below - and officials said the vaccines would protect people.
The simple-minded, the misinformed, and the malicious chose to interpret that as "I'll never get the virus".
Some of them still choose/claim to hear that all these years later.
And that was before the arrival of the variants of concern, against which the vaccines had not been tested, and which turned out to be more dangerous.
See folks? She's willfully or mistakenly choosing to interpret "protect" as "100% she will never get it" instead of "severity and mortality will be reduced".
Perhaps 95% protection is too subtle a concept for her to grasp.
The Lancet, February 17, 2021 : "a 95% vaccine efficacy"
Yale Medicine, November 5, 2021: "it was 94% effective"
University of Oxford, 2021 Jun; 21: "The mRNA-based Pfizer1, 2 and Moderna3 vaccines were shown to have 94â95% efficacy in preventing symptomatic COVID-19"
Back to "folks". I was optimistic about you my little NPC. The programming is strong in this creature.
Officials categorically stated that if you got vaccinated you could not get infected or pass it on. Then cases amid the vaccinated came out and they were just "break through" cases. You are having to retcon what they said in order to deal with the fact that they lied and this does not work, apart from any health risks.
Huh. Also a month late. Weird.
Notice how cleverly she skips over supplying any support for this opinion folks?
I guess it's too hard for her to come up with a medical professional saying something like that.
Or maybe she interprets "the vaccine will protect you" as "you won't get sick from the virus".
That would be too bad, because it would mean she's interpreting 95% as 100%.
Or maybe she's applying things that were said about the original version of the virus to later variants like Delta, Omicron, and so forth.
That would be too bad too.
Whatever. She's obviously confused.