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For profit by those who it benefited, namely medical companies who made the so called vaccine. Only by changing and relaxing the long standing criteria for wha
by synecdoche 3mo ago
For profit by those who it benefited, namely medical companies who made the so called vaccine.
Only by changing and relaxing the long standing criteria for what constitutes a vaccine.
- Jedd 3mo agoIn what way are they not a vaccine?
- gregoryyy 3mo agoThe definition of vaccine was broadened to include mRNA technologies.
- dionian 3mo agoBefore 2020, vaccines referred to things like attenuated viruses - you were basically being given a small weakened dose of the actual pathogen to prime your immune system. mRNA shots are a different animal and they are quite new.
- Volundr 3mo agoFar be it from me to doubt a stranger on the Internet, but can you point out any medical textbook or dictionary written pre-2020 that limits the definition of "vaccine" to "attenuated viruses"?
- Izkata 3mo agoThis is the dictionary people were pointing at when it happened: 2021-01-18: https://web.archive.org/web/20210118193104/https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vaccine https://web.archive.org/web/20210118193104/https://www.merri... 2021-01-26: https://web.archive.org/web/20210126065143/https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vaccine https://web.archive.org/web/20210126065143/https://www.merri...
- Jedd 3mo agoI was sure that pre-2020 - going back 40y or so prior - VLP's were also generally regarded as coming under the umbrella term 'vaccine'.