South of 90

Vincent J. Curtis

22 Sept 22

RE: The will of the majority is not the problem.  Op-ed by Jim Gillatly.  The Hamilton Spectator 22 Sept 22.

It is rare when a writer admits inter alia that his IQ is less than 90, but that’s what Jim Gillatly did.  He writes, “No person with an I.Q. north of 90 would have believed that a vaccination would prevent you for getting the disease.”

The smallpox vaccine doesn’t reduce the severity of your smallpox infection; it confers immunity against smallpox.  Likewise, the Salk vaccine doesn’t reduce the severity of your polio infection; it confers immunity against polio. “Conferring immunity” is what a vaccine is supposed to do.  And this is what was reflected in the medical literature until the middle of 2021.

In response to criticism that the COVID vaccines weren’t conferring immunity, officials responsible for official definitions, and who were up to their necks in vaccination advocacy, went back to their word processers and changed the definition of a vaccine on their websites from something that conferred immunity to something that reduced severity.  The medical bureaucrats caught in the headlights played Orwellian games with words to escape criticism.

These changes were noted by critics at the time, but apparently, a lot of people were fooled.  And remain fooled.

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