This is an example of prevarication, ie, lying using facts to
mislead. Kennedy trots out this factoid (a dubious fact) to
give the impression that vaccines lack efficacy. He ignores
facts about vaccines reducing the risk of severity of Covid 19,
there by reducing mortality, hospitalizations, & Long Covid.
Why ignore vaccine benefits?
To manipulate gullible people who fear vaccines & the federal
government into supporting his political ambitions.
As for not reducing transmissibility, that's an unsupported
claim. He can likely cite a result from some limited study,
but transmissibility is a function of many things outside of
narrowly focused research, eg, the vaccinated population
being infectious for shorter duration, fewer infected people
in hospitals.
Also, there is evidence that vaccines reduce transmission.
Rates depends upon which vaccine & which Covid variant.
Preventing transmission never required for COVID vaccines’ initial approval; Pfizer vax did reduce transmission of early variants
Social media users are circulating video clips of testimony by a Pfizer executive, who is said to “admit” that the company and its partner BioNTech did not test whether their mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine reduced virus transmission prior to rolling it out – which is something the companies were...www.reuters.com
1) Preventing Transmission is a primary goal of a Vax .. The main justification for violation of Essential liberty was the prevention of transmission .. had to have a vax pass in many places. .. so what on earth are you talking about? As far as Kennedy .. I don't care what he says .. was just pointing out that his claim about Prevention of Transmission turned out to be correct.
2) "Vaccines reduce transmission" is a strange comment.. a real vaccine prevents transmission .. but we are not talking about Vaccines in General .. but the mRNA VAx .. which did not prevent transmission = no significant reduction. A slight reduction doesn't help to slow or stop transmission in any significant way .. and certainly does not get the number below a transmission rate of 1 .. which you need to stop transmission. So unfortunately .. someone is misrepresenting the truth .. "The Evidence" such as the London Study .. the Massachussets outbreak .. and the rate at which Omicron went through the population in general .. Showed that the Vax was very terrible at Transmission reduction. In my region .. the Omnicron wave infected 60% of the population in 6 weeks .. super high transmission rate .. during a normal flue season 5-20% are infected over the whole Year.
3) Correct that the transmission rate was different for different mutations Alpha Delta Omicron .. following the normal trent of getting more contageous but less toxic. That there is some insignificant reduction that varies from one strain to the next is thus a given .. but is an a statistically insignificant reduction -- does not prevent the spread in any significant way. If you want that . look to Australia and New Zealand who did the Full Lockdown .. that is the only thing that prevented the spead .. reduced the number to below 1 - throughout this pandemic.