I’m confused about the same thing. When I got the vaccine I knew it was only to prevent the symptoms from getting out of control if I did catch the virus.. the cytokine storm... I thought this was common knowledge but it apparently isn’t. The vaccine is made of proteins that are responsible for the spikes that cause the more deleterious symptoms.. it trains your immune system to recognize those proteins so it doesn’t overreact when the vaccine invades your system.
Even Rand Paul, whom I respect, was questioning the idea that the vaccine didn’t prevent infection.. he has natural immunity so maybe he didn’t bother to read up on it, but he shouldn’t go on TV spouting opinions about something he hasn’t even read up on.. even if he is an an MD.
Very true. I spent an hour explaining to a friend yesterday why there is no such thing as “breakthrough” cases. He didn’t know either...
You state you don't know if Rand read the literature or not then you condemn him for not reading the literature which you just admitted you don't know if he did or not.
You may have understood as much but I am willing to lay money 99% of the population believed it was to prevent COVID. Why, because in the normal world before the vaccine issue was super politicized everyone got a vaccine for its primary purpose, to prevent the disease. You got or allowed your child to get vaccinated against small pox, chicken pox, rubella, HPV, diphtheria, whooping cough, meningitis, etc .. for the purpose of preventing the disease, not to lessen the symptoms.
If you don't like the COVID vaccines being lumped in with these other vaccines whose number one purpose is to prevent contracting the disease then don't call the COVID shots vaccines because they aren't by the definition and behavior we expect from something that is called a vaccine.