Yeah, it wasn't forced on anyone! Nobody grabbed you and held you down and injected you... You just couldn't travel, go out in public, work at your job, or send your kids to school without it.
Totally voluntary.
Totally voluntary.
As for the rest, again, mandating vaccination is something the US has been doing over and over since the year 1777. This is nothing new.
The parent claimed that this vaccine mandate was specifically paired with the vaccine still being in an experimental state, which to my knowledge is not the case.
Los Angeles: L.A. to require COVID vaccine proof for indoor restaurants, gyms, malls
Canada: Traveling in Canada by plane or train? You'll need to show proof of vaccination
IBM/RedHat: Big Blue will require employees in the U.S. to get fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Dec. 8 while Red Hat requires proof of full vaccination by Nov. 29.
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/l-a-poised-to-enact-one-of-...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/airline-news/2021/10/0...
https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/ibm-red-hat-issue-new-covid-1...
Smallpox had a mortality varying from 33% to 17% according to what I read last [1]
Covid has a mortality rate of < 2% in the US mainly driven by the very old, and severe co-mordibities (diabetic+obese, immunocompromised, etc) that are in many cases annually killed off by influenza & pneumonia. That is why all-cause mortality hasn't shifted that much at the overall population level in the US.
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/clinicians/clinical-disease.htm...
That is why Do No Harm is so pertinent to the discussion of vaccinate or do nothing when it comes to the very young.
That's a fair point, I agree.
> Especially when the definition was changed in the past year.
Could you elaborate on this part? I went ahead and checked the dictionary definition:
> A substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease.
Which tracks with what I remember from my molecular bio degree ten years ago.
It wasn’t just here - the CDC and potentially others (I haven’t looked that hard) changed their definitions as well.
I’ve got no issue with making terms more correct, but I think one could make the argument that the covid vaccine is more similar to a flu shot than the polio vaccine w.r.t public perception.
I don't object to the new definition- the old one explicitly calling out cowpox feels outdated as our medical technology has marched on.
You make a very good point though, depending on what definition of "vaccine" one used prior to 2020 the mRNA vaccines might not fall under it. And changing the meaning of the word doesn't magically change the properties of the things it refers to.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article25411126...