MP> It is not really a contradiction, although I question his wording.  He is
 MP> saying that no vaccine prevents you from getting the germs, but they do
 MP> help your body fight off actually becoming ill.

Here's that silly conversation:

 MP> > Aaron> "The polio vaccine is 90% effective at preventing polio."
 MP> 
 MP> > Alan> That is true after two doses. Three doses are 99 to 100% effective
 MP> 
 MP> > Aaron> "The covid vaccine doesn't prevent covid."
 MP> 
 MP> > Alan> No vaccine prevents disease or virus from infecting someone. It he
 MP> > your body fight off infection.

Alan agreed with me when I said "The polio vaccine is 90% effective at preventing polio." But then he also added "No vaccine prevents disease." The wording is everything. The left words things badly intentionally to promote false narratives.

 MP> People who are old enough to remember are damned glad that they never had
 MP> polio, measles, mumps, etc., because they *knew* people who did, and most
 MP> of them are damned glad there were vaccines introduced that nearly or
 MP> completely irradicated those diseases from the US.  Those of us not
 MP> quite old enough never lived in a world where those diseases were
 MP> common.  We take for granted that we can "never catch them" and
 MP> apparently some of us have become comfortable enough that we question
 MP> whether or not they even existed.

That sounds likely. I've never known anyone with polio, so to me it seems like the polio vaccine must be real, and it must be extremely effective.

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