
Some time ago PM Trudeau floated the idea that pandemic shutdowns can’t be lifted until a vaccine is available. More recently, the lack of a vaccine is touted in the US as a reason for keeping schools closed and travel restrictions in place. What is this obsession with a vaccine as the savior whose healing powers we must await while hiding in isolation? As a previous post reprinted below explains, it is again a case of generals fighting a past war rather than the current one.
But let’s also be attentive to a bait and switch involving shifty use of words. A vaccine by definition works by training our immune system to recognize and resist a targeted pathogen. And it’s a long road to perfecting an agent which achieves that without doing harm to some or many individuals. Meanwhile Bill Gates is promoting something termed a “vaccine” which intends to…
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