[nitzy]

I though that when a vaccine was “effective”, it meant that you still got the illness but it was hypothetically less severe?

What changed?

[DoodleBob]

Vaccine efficacy or vaccine effectiveness is the percentage reduction of disease cases in a vaccinated group of people compared to an unvaccinated group. For example, a vaccine efficacy or effectiveness of 80% indicates an 80% decrease in the number of disease cases among a group of vaccinated people compared to a group in which nobody was vaccinated.

In other words, PREVENTION.

Let's look at the actual FDA and Pfizer-BioNTech info.

Per the FDA's website,

On August 23, 2021, the FDA approved the first COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine has been known as the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, and will now be marketed as Comirnaty, for the prevention of COVID-19 disease in individuals 16 years of age and older.(emphasis added)

Per the Comernity Insert,

--------------------------- INDICATIONS AND USAGE----------------------------
COMIRNATY is a vaccine indicated for active immunization to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in individuals 16 years of age and older. (1)(emphasis added>

Per the Summary Basis for Regulatory Action, under "Indication"

Active immunization to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in individuals 16 years of age and older. (Emphasis added)

Clearly, the sjots for Covid were for PREVENTION. Nothing else. All of the clinical trials (limited as they were) and statistical confidence intervals were focused on Vaccine Efficacay (VE) with regard to PREVENTION...not hospitalization, not ER visits, and not symptoms. Accordingly, THAT is the basis upon which VE should be evaluated.

What “changed” was the narrative. Once VE started collapsing over time, necessitating endless boosters, the press and the pharmaceutical-industrial complex started chatting about “reduced incidence of hospitalization, bad cases of Covid, and death.”

And sure, maybe that happened statistically. But that’s not what the clinical trials were designed to test. Indeed, the FDA goes hard after vitamin and homeopathic products if they even THINK of claiming some benefit that’s not part of their approval package. But the Covid shots? Heck, they can stop world hunger.

Let me be clear: any shot has side effects. Being a fully-informed customer and patient is a matter of life and death nowadays.

I am not promoting the shingles vaccine. What I AM promoting, is the difference between a product that works as expected and for a sustained period of time, and a lie.