In part it's because they were lied to and gaslit, I'm not shocked at all. As soon as I saw Walensky, Dir. CDC, in the media and on TV, as well as Biden, claiming that vaccination was a no-brainer, no chance of infection, I was floored. That wasn't at all what the data indicated, not even the sponsors themselves were making the claim, their FDA submissions certainly did not...
I have no idea what motivated this decision to lie, whether they correctly anticipated the liberal denials around the deficiencies in the medical products produced, or what. It was correctly called out as false at the time, even by mainstream fact checkers, but vastly fewer people paid attention to those clarifications than the original statements.
"Our data from the CDC today suggests that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don't get sick, and that it's not just in the clinical trials but it's also in real-world data," CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky told Rachel Maddow on Monday, March 29. Walensky was describing the results of a new CDC study of vaccinated Americans, which found that they not only did not suffer from COVID-19, but also did not carry the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes it – and, by extension, are very unlikely to spread it to other people.
In part it's because they were lied to and gaslit, I'm not shocked at all. As soon as I saw Walensky, Dir. CDC, in the media and on TV, as well as Biden, claiming that vaccination was a no-brainer, no chance of infection, I was floored. That wasn't at all what the data indicated, not even the sponsors themselves were making the claim, their FDA submissions certainly did not...
I have no idea what motivated this decision to lie, whether they correctly anticipated the liberal denials around the deficiencies in the medical products produced, or what. It was correctly called out as false at the time, even by mainstream fact checkers, but vastly fewer people paid attention to those clarifications than the original statements.