New Normal Newspeak #2: “Vaccine”, from Off-Guardian

If by definition vaccines are supposed to confer immunity, then Covid-19 “vaccines” don’t make the definition of vaccine. From off-guardian.org:

If the Covid19 shots “reduce symptoms”, but don’t prevent infection or transmission…are they truly “vaccines”?

“Vaccine” is a word a with a simple meaning. I’ll quote it to you, from the Oxford dictionary:

A substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease.

And here, from the CDC’s website:

Vaccine: A product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease, protecting the person from that disease.

Encyclopedia Brittanica says more or less the same. As does dictionary.com. Cambridge University. Merriam Webster.

You get the point.

A “vaccine” is substance that, when introduced into a body, “provides immunity” to a specific disease. This person, now immune, is therefore incapable of passing that disease on to others. This is the entire point of vaccination.

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