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My mistake, I copied and pasted it from HN, didn't realize it was truncated. I've pasted the working link twice in this thread already though. Here it is a thir

My mistake, I copied and pasted it from HN, didn't realize it was truncated. I've pasted the working link twice in this thread already though. Here it is a third time: https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-pfizer-vaccine-transmission/fact-check-preventing-transmission-never-required-for-covid-vaccines-initial-approval-pfizer-vax-did-reduce-transmission-of-early-variants-idUSL1N31F20E#:~:text=VACCINE%20DID%20REDUCE%20TRANSMISSION https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-pfizer-vaccine-tra... >Be that as it may, many public health authorities did. Should be easy to provide even a single example of that, then?

lmm 4y ago
Here's the kind of thing that was being said in my country at the time: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55056016 https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55056016 . The vaccine is described as "effective" and "immunisation". Looking that up in published health authority documentation: "Immunization: A process by which a person becomes protected against a disease through vaccination. This term is often used interchangeably with vaccination or inoculation." "Immunity: Protection from an infectious disease. If you are immune to a disease, you can be exposed to it without becoming infected." The message that was broadcast, and the message that was understood, was that this was the same kind of thing as the other things that are usually described by the word "vaccine": something that makes you immune, that reliably prevents infection, such that vaccinated people don't need to take any other precautions.
nailer 4y ago
In addition to the BBC, if you live in the US you should know that CNN repeated the line about vaccines stopping transmission (not ‘in many cases’) repeatedly. I’ll let you do the Googling since I’m busy and you’re the one arguing against what most people can recall.

lmm 4y ago

Here's the kind of thing that was being said in my country at the time: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55056016 https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55056016 . The vaccine is described as "effective" and "immunisation". Looking that up in published health authority documentation: "Immunization: A process by which a person becomes protected against a disease through vaccination. This term is often used interchangeably with vaccination or inoculation." "Immunity: Protection from an infectious disease. If you are immune to a disease, you can be exposed to it without becoming infected." The message that was broadcast, and the message that was understood, was that this was the same kind of thing as the other things that are usually described by the word "vaccine": something that makes you immune, that reliably prevents infection, such that vaccinated people don't need to take any other precautions.

nailer 4y ago

In addition to the BBC, if you live in the US you should know that CNN repeated the line about vaccines stopping transmission (not ‘in many cases’) repeatedly. I’ll let you do the Googling since I’m busy and you’re the one arguing against what most people can recall.