[beerandt]

I get it.

It's just a fine line between arguing what would justify FDA "approval" vs what merits have changed that actually increase the risk-versus-reward assessment.

Put another way, when the biggest excuse for not getting vaccinated was "it's experimental and not approved", it became a straw-man-esque "gotcha-trap" of a battle to achieve "approval", even though that approval process looked nothing like any before it (no matter how many times "full fda approval" is repeated).

When the metric becomes the goal, it's no longer a metric, and all that.

We get bogged down arguing whether criteria of a definition or standard are being met, while the regulators end up just redefining things.

And we're supposed to pretend the teacher applying a curved grading scale actually represents a difference in the students performance.