08-02-2021, 09:07 PM
hal wrote:
[quote=deckeda]
I really wish they’d stop calling these infections breakthroughs. No one ever claimed you couldn’t get infected.
it breaks through the vax - seems like the perfect word. Does the vax offer resistance? Yes, it does, so covid must break through the resistance to infect someone. Maybe 'climbs over the wall' would be better, but that's a mouthful.
The problem is not so much the word (although I'm not a big fan, either) it's more thr point that people thought getting the vax made them super-human, and that this was all that they needed to do. The percentages of 94% effective, etc. just added to the confusion.
Just look at the influenza vaccine for a comparison of what it means to be "immune."