The burden isn't on me, a fan of vaccines that have documented high performance. (There are many of them. They aren't hard to find. Try medRxiv.)
The burden is on you, a person who seems to believe without evidence that the COVID-19 vaccines prevent people from becoming infected with COVID (they don't) perpetually (they don't). There are many fully vaccinated people dying with COVID because (as with most other COVID deaths!) of serious comorbidities.
The best current evidence is that the COVID-19 vaccines have a good effect on preventing hospitalization and death, little effect on preventing infection, and all benefits attenuate materially at between 3 and 9 months.
It's an insanely mediocre product, which is fine because COVID is mediocre at killing people. But its mediocrity means the mandates -- especially for under 30s, especially for young men, especially for those rich in IgG antibodies -- is unjustifiable.
That is what the word vaccine means to ordinary people. Stop accusing me of changing a definition that your side is changing. [1] That kind of behavior belongs on Reddit.
Merriam Webster's old definition excluded many vaccines ordinary people called vaccines. Diphtheria and tetanus most clearly. And other dictionaries had definitions compatible with mRNA vaccines.[1]
The burden is on you, a person who seems to believe without evidence that the COVID-19 vaccines prevent people from becoming infected with COVID (they don't) perpetually (they don't). There are many fully vaccinated people dying with COVID because (as with most other COVID deaths!) of serious comorbidities.
The best current evidence is that the COVID-19 vaccines have a good effect on preventing hospitalization and death, little effect on preventing infection, and all benefits attenuate materially at between 3 and 9 months.
It's an insanely mediocre product, which is fine because COVID is mediocre at killing people. But its mediocrity means the mandates -- especially for under 30s, especially for young men, especially for those rich in IgG antibodies -- is unjustifiable.