The idea of immunity from vaccination, which had been taught to me as a binary, and the reality of the situation, in which taking the vaccine may not completely prevent infection, but does suppress symptoms to a variable extent, has been bugging me for months. While WaPo documents definitions that don’t support what I was taught, I still have mixed feelings, and wonder if they should have started out with some other bit of medical terminology which would have better suited the situation.
Except, of course, they were trying for complete immunity.
… the CDC had updated a definition of “vaccination” on one of its webpages. As of late August, the page described vaccination as “The act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease” (emphasis ours). The definition has since been changed from producing “immunity” to producing “protection.”
Naturally, the whack-jobs came out, as if on cue:
Check out @CDCgov’s evolving definition of “vaccination.” They’ve been busy at the Ministry of Truth: pic.twitter.com/4k2xf8rvsL
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) September 8, 2021
Which, for particular reason, reminds me of the title of a projected novel concerning a demented cult leader and his followers, which would be entitled TEMPEST IN A CRACKPOT.
Too bad I never got around to writing it.
