Moderna, J&J, and Pfizer are not vaccines. Vaccines stop / prevent you from getting something. These injections have not shown that to be the case.
What has been shown to be true, is that people getting the injections can more easily fight off this virus, but they are not a vaccine. If they were, then I shouldnt have to worry about getting the virus.
I don’t know what you’d call it, maybe a placebo? I guess I thought it was going to be an immunization, like against mumps, measles, etc, but we see how it has gone thus far. Also, it was whipped up in a fraction of the time as all the others.
[quote=“komobu, post:26, topic:241110”] Vaccines stop / prevent you from getting something.
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This isn’t true. Vaccines are designed to provide immune responses. Not all vaccines are 99% effective. Chicken pox and flu vaccines are examples. Yiu can still get the chicken pox or flu, even after taking the vaccines for them.
The exemption the Marines are requesting is specifically about a religious exemption.
Hence the question as to what makes this vaccine different from a religious perspective.
Medical or political opinions of the Marines are not part of the equation unless they are stating falsehoods and attempting to abuse the religious exemption process.