Something significant happened last September 1.
The CDC changed the definition of a vaccine and significantly altered our understanding of that term.
Was it politically motivated?
I don’t have a good explanation other than that. The Biden administration seems to be covering its tracks.
As late as August 21, 2021, the CDC defined the term “vaccine” this way:
“A product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease, protecting the person from that disease. Vaccines are usually administered through needle injections but can also be administered by mouth or sprayed into the nose.”
But on September 1, 2021, the definition was changed to read:
“A preparation that is used to stimulate the body’s immune response against diseases. Vaccines are usually administered through needle injections, but some can be administered by mouth or sprayed into the nose.”
The change is significant. The words “immunity” and “protection” were dropped.
What makes these omissions significant is that it changes our understanding of the term vaccine as something prevents disease to something that may or may not protect or produce immunity. Saying only that it stimulates the immune system means it might or it might not.
Both the White House and the CDC have been reduced to admitting even the vaccinated can get Covid and the benefit of getting the vaccine is that the symptoms are reportedly reduced (maybe) and you might not need a hospital stay (or you might).
Sort of sounds like the mRNA process, at least in this case, has produced a therapeutic rather than a vaccine. A therapeutic is defined as “the attempted remediation of a health problem”, something that eases the symptoms or the results of a health issue but does not have the capacity to cure, prevent or protect from the cause of the health issue.
So, from a functional (and a definitional) perspective, the vaccines are failures.
They can’t prevent Covid the way vaccines for polio, smallpox, measles and other deadly diseases eradicated them.
And yet that is the dishonest way the government and Mr. Science himself are selling them to the public. Policies that include incredible restrictions on individual freedoms are based on acting as if these “vaccines” are real vaccines and not glorified versions of Ibuprofen or Tamiflu. Being vaccinated, once, twice or boosted, has become a qualifier of what you are allowed to do, where you can go and how you get there.
But if these vaccines are truly therapeutics, this is not policy based on “science’, rather it is class division based on an arbitrary and capricious standard of status. You are either a prole (a person deemed of a lower, more worthless social rank) or a patriot - the former preferred by the ruling statists over the latter (the latter being now defined as a J6 insurrectionist).
Don’t think so?
Just look at the current confusion in the White House, the CDC, and the NIH. Rochelle Walensky and St. Anthony of Fauci are constantly contradicting each other and the White House is like a ping pong ball bouncing back and forth between the two. You must quarantine for 14 days, or you can go back to work after 5 days, you have to wear a mask until you don’t, you can’t go to your local Krispy Kreme store but you can go to Walmart and Home Depot. Unvaccinated health care workers were once heroes, now they are getting fired if they do not pick the prick.
These public health policy makers are not stupid, two things are at play here: 1) they truly don’t have an answer based on data and 2) they are political animals – true bureaucrats who are more than a little drunk on fame and power.
So, what they don’t know they make up to cover their asses.
And the American people pay the penalties for that uncertainty. Americans have never been told the truth about the original Rona or its children, Delta and Omicron, because the Fauci’s of the world do not know what the truth is. That is not a slam, just a fact. Why else have we been whipsawed from this policy to that policy when the “science” is either lacking or contradictory to the narrative.
Government, like nature, abhors a vacuum.
When there is gap between a public issue and public policy, that gap is filled with politics.
Of course, the pandemic is about politics. It started as a “Get Trump” movement and now that Trump is gone, they simply have too much hubris to drop it and move on. Like a dog that chases cars and eventually catches one, now that he has caught it, he has no idea what to do with it.
I’ve said it before and will say it again - they won’t stop because they can’t stop.
And by "pick the prick" that could mean the jab or Fauci. Coin toss.
Another way to halt their lust for perceived dominion is to simply stop them. Small words tend to carry great weight. No, is among the greatest. No, I will not take your jab. No, you will not limit my liberty. No, you not dictate who I see, where I go, what I do. No, I will not validate your insanity. No, I will not live in fear. No. No. No.