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by fivetenpen 27 days ago
They were never meant to prevent people from getting COVID. They were meant to prevent people from dying due to COVID. The fact they were able to tell you they had COVID means it was a resounding success (not dead).
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there are literally people in this discussion talking about these vaccines preventing COVID spread, parroting this complete nonsense politicians and "experts" made when they pushed these "vaccines"
> They were never meant to prevent people from getting COVID.

"COVID-19 vaccination will help keep you from getting COVID-19" - https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/97780/

You see, this kind of lying and gaslighting is exactly what feeds the distrust in the government and scientific establishment in general public. No number of studies is going to reverse that any time soon.

They will HELP, they never claimed you would be IMMUNE. it’s in the text you’re citing!
In every public hearing, all pharma execs stated that they never tested and verified that they prevent transmission.