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Good one! Here’s my version for pre-Covid vaccines: Vaccines are like seat belts: they prevent car crashes.
by yetanotherath 5y ago
Good one!
Here’s my version for pre-Covid vaccines:
Vaccines are like seat belts: they prevent car crashes.
- headsoup 5y agoNo they're more like airbags. The don't stop the accident but they do make it immensely more survivable. It's amazing how much we've forgotten about how vaccines and immunity work over the last couple of years.
- yetanotherath 5y ago
- cma 5y agoFlu vaccines were always described as a pretty stochastic thing and not a guarantee, though that may have been more for uncertainty of which strain ended up dominant.
- Izkata 5y agoWhy is why they're colloquially referred to as "flu shots", not "flu vaccines".
- dTal 5y ago
- yetanotherath 5y ago