You only thought you were vaccinated

For many months, conservatives have been predicting that the CDC will redefine what it means to be vaccinated.  In the distant past — that is, more than two years ago — being vaccinated meant you’d had an injection that left you forever immune to a disease.  This became problematic when the COVID vaccines did not leave people immune to the disease.  Now there are boosters, so the CDC has announced that you’re not vaccinated unless you’ve also had your booster.  Of course, even with that booster, you’re still not immune, as the troubles in Israel reveal.

It was always obvious that, when the initial shots failed to protect people against COVID, the leftist establishment would have to redefine COVID vaccinations to justify the continued pressure on people to take them.  The establishment started with the narrative that the shots, even if they didn’t prevent COVID, meant people would be less sick.  And indeed, you’ll hear that line from every single person who took the shots and still got COVID.  They always say something like, “I would have been much sicker if I hadn’t had the shot.”

But still, there’s that little problem of the supposed vaccine not actually preventing people from getting the disease at all, which is the historic expectation for vaccinations.  Instead, the pressure was on for people to get the booster.  That was the point at which people opposed to mandates and vaccine passports said, “Just you wait.  Pretty soon, you’ll need to have three shots to be considered vaccinated for purposes of mandates and passports.”  When they said that, they were castigated as liars:

Image: Independent screen grab.

And, as invariably turns out to be the case when it comes to all things COVID, conservatives were correct.  On Friday, Rochelle Walensky announced that there really isn’t such a thing as “fully vaccinated” (tell that to all the people who didn’t get polio or smallpox after they got that one shot).  Instead, people will be considered “up to date” — and you’ll need the third shot for the current version of “up to date.”

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