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> In your lifetime you will likely have caught some illnesses that you are vaccinated against without realising it, because you successfully fought the infectio
by richrichie 2y ago
> In your lifetime you will likely have caught some illnesses that you are vaccinated against without realising it, because you successfully fought the infection before it became serious.
>The COVID vaccine in particular never claimed to eliminate the symptoms altogether but reduces the severity so that rather than breathing through a tube for three weeks, you get a nasty cold.
Good examples of propositions that cannot be falsified.
- danparsonson 2y agoIndeed, and you cannot prove that a specific car crash would have been worse for the passengers without seatbelts, however a proper understanding of how seatbelts work makes the conclusion nonetheless fairly obvious. Also, statistics are a thing; propositions like 'vaccination reduces severity of illness' can in fact be proven or falsified by studying a sufficiently large cohort, such as is readily available during, say, a pandemic.