Re:More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’
by didibus on Monday January 10, 2022 @06:51PM
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> Did you just unilaterally decide what the word “vaccine” means? :)
Their definition seems pretty close to that of Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=define+vaccine
> 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
But to be fair, at this point, I don't know why we discuss mRNA vaccines, there's been traditional vaccines available for people to take as well such as J&J and Novavax. So even if you don't want to take risk with mRNA since its a newer mechanism to use for vaccines, one can take J&J or Novavax instead.
Re:More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’
by Izkata on Monday January 10, 2022 @08:06PM
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J&J is an adenovirus-vector vaccine. They're almost as new as mRNA - before the covid ones, it had only been approved once, in an Ebola vaccine, in 2019.
Novavax I don't think is available yet.
That isn’t how it works. A word means what people understand it to mean.
But…semantics. Whatever.
The main issue that the parent comment touches on is that this is a new process for developing a vaccine and it isn’t honest to compare this to vaccines we’ve been giving people for decades.
There is a heck of a lot we don’t know. People are intuitive and they sense this. They aren’t anti science, but they do know when they are being sold something in a less than honest way.