WE ARE NOT UNVACCINATED
I notice that the name they gave us is wrong
I notice that the name they gave us is wrong: the unvaccinated.
That means people who were not vaccinated. But we did not not get vaccinated on the account of there being an insufficient number of doses.
Nor did we refuse to be vaccinated even when there were a sufficient number of doses.
No, we decided to be not injected. We are the uninjected. We are the persecuted, the officially rejected.
But none of us
Will continue to be called the unvaccinated. The final name
Is yet ungiven.1
We are the species whose type is not yet fixed, as I imagine one geezer named Nietzsche (now dead) would say.
I took the liberty, above, to select and re-write a few lines of the poem On the Label Emigrant (1939) by Bertolt Brecht, originally in D. Constantine and T. Kuhn’s translation.
The photo is of the actor Scott Ryan who plays Ray Shoesmith in the Australian TV show Mr Inbetween.
It bothers me that not only was the WHO’s definition of “pandemic” changed in 2009, but also the very definition of the verb “vaccinate” was changed in 2015. Where previously “to vaccinate” meant “to inoculate with a vaccine to immunize against a disease”, or “to give a person or an animal a vaccine to prevent infection by a disease”, it became a product that “stimulates immunity to protect against disease”. A concrete downsizing of the ability to stimulate immunity? Obviously. See more here.
I am supposing that you (the Present Reader) and I (the Present Writer) have always thought that a vaccine is what is recommended before a person goes on vacation to an exotic location (where a pathogen is endemic). A traveller would be protected from getting the disease and transmitting the causative agent of the disease to others. The person did not need everyone around them to take the shot to be personally protected. A medical professional would administer the vaccine and then wish the person well on their vacation; they would not tell the person to stay away from the vacation destination. The medical professional would have no concerns about the person returning home because they would have confidence that the exotic pathogen would not be brought back. The vaccine itself would have undergone a decade (if not longer) of clinical trial testing prior to public use, so its safety profile would be well-defined. A single injection could provide life-long protection against the pathogenic disease and transmission. Are we missing something?
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