re: DEI, FDA, etc. affects on language

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their reasoning was they had to clarify that vaccines did not mean 100% effective, because during covid it became clear a lot of people did not understand that isn't the case. it's like we were spoiled into thinking vaccines were always as good as they are now. Just looking at polio, The Salk vaccine had been 60–70% effective against PV1 (poliovirus type 1), over 90% effective against PV2 and PV3, and 94% effective against the development of bulbar polio. Two doses of inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) are 90% effective or more against paralytic polio; three doses are 99% to 100% effective.

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It’s more than that, the definition of “vaccine” changed from that of: (a) a weakened RNA virus, to (b), a weakened RNA virus OR a synthetic RNA implant, which are clearly 2 distinct things.