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.
“You may have understood as much but I am willing to lay money 99% of the population believed it was to prevent COVID.”
There was the article today about several (7?) people at one hospital that recently died of Covid that were vaccinated. The medical folks didn’t even test (or treat) for Covid as they figured it couldn’t be Covid because the patients had been vaxxed!
Whether people are aware of it or not, being vaccinated is a sort of infection.... you don’t become ill because the virus has been attenuated. Your point is taken, this is a new technology and we are involved in a massive experiment.. I never said that people aren’t right to be skeptical... the public education efforts on these vaccines have been atrociously mishandled..