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adjl posted...

But vaccines don't provide total immunity. They never have.

Try to tell that to the average lay person whose understanding (prior to the pandemic) of what a vaccine is, boils down to vague recollections of an explanation given to them back in grade school. Vaccination and Inoculation have clinical differences, and that's separate from how they have been used in society at large; (IMO) had we started off by calling them inoculations against serious infection and death, we could have saved ourselves a world of troubles.

We still would have seen the politicization, but I believe the difference in believed common definitions would have tempered some of the reactions we have seen from the pro-virus crowd.

(I've stopped calling them anti-vaxxers, they have sided with the virus and their descriptor should reflect that stance if only to make it clear they have taken an ideological position)