I Just Woke Up in 2019

and boy are my arms tired

Johnson & Johnson has been testing a new HIV vaccine, and suddenly the news is full of stories about it:

Now, here’s the weirdest thing: These stories all reveal that this experimental vaccine is said to be a failure that can’t be approved by regulators or distributed in the population because it “fails to stop transmission,” so people who are vaccinated with it can still be infected and can still pass on the virus to others. See, that means it doesn’t work.

Isn’t that an interesting standard by which to evaluate a vaccine? I’m….having…vague…memories of….a time when….nope, lost it.

Also, claiming that the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines for Covid-19 are failed vaccines, or not really vaccines, and making those claims on the basis of the fact that they don’t stop transmission or infection, still counts as being a mean Nazi. So definitely don’t say that. Anti-vaxxer!

If an HIV vaccine doesn’t prevent transmission or infection, it doesn’t work. If a Covid-19 vaccine doesn’t prevent transmission or infection, it’s absolutely flawless and glorious, and you should build a statue to it and worship it as a god and stop talking to your own family if they don’t take more and more and more of it like a milkshake or bottled water. Please update your conception of vaccines to adapt to the new standard. Do not complain about believing different things about different versions of the same topic on different days, situationally, according to what the television says. This is who we are now.