The University of Waterloo spreads more covid-19 disinformation

This time about the stated purpose and history of covid-19 "vaccines"

In a January 2022 interview on the University of Waterloo’s (UW’s) official podcast, UW president Vivek Goel spread disinformation not only about hospitalization rates, but also about the stated purpose and history of covid-19 “vaccines.”

Commenting on covid-19 “vaccines,” Goel said,

Vaccines were always about keeping people from having to be hospitalized, from suffering death. It was a bonus the vaccines protected [sic] such a high level of protection against infection. (11:02 mark)

Goel’s claims are false.

To appreciate this, we needn’t evaluate disputes over the suspiciously shifting definition of “vaccination.” Instead, we can just listen to how Goel himself recently explained covid-19 “vaccines” on his COVID-19 podcast.

In the episode “Vaccine Development,” Goel explained that a coronavirus vaccine

provokes the body to produce an antibody response through its immune system. The antibodies can cover the receptors on the cells that the coronavirus spikes attach to. This prevents an infection from taking place. (emphasis added) (1:00 mark)

Goel identified preventing infection as a defining feature of covid-19 vaccines, not an inessential “bonus” feature.

In the next episode of his COVID-19 podcast, “The Hunt for Treatments,” Goel explained that treatments mitigate the severity of disease after infection, as distinct from preventing infection in the first place. Drugs that “reduce the impact of covid-19” are treatments.

There is an intuitive logic here. Ideally one would prevent infection in the first place (vaccine). The next best thing would be to prevent or mitigate disease post-infection (treatment).

But in the January 2022 interview, Goel obliterated the important distinction between vaccines and treatments.

Goel also contradicted his previous remarks and statements by public health officials on the purpose of covid-19 “vaccines.” This wrecks Goel’s credibility on covid-19.

Region of Waterloo Public Health said covid-19 “vaccination” will “protect you from SARS-CoV-2, the virus” and “sto[p] the spread of the virus in our community.” Preventing infection — not keeping people out of the hospital or morgue — stops a virus from spreading.

In the regulatory decisions authorizing covid-19 “vaccines” for use in Canada, Health Canada said their use was “active immunization.”

As of this writing, immunize still means make immune to infection.

Goel didn’t forget the basic distinction between vaccines and treatments, or that preventing infection was a primary stated purpose of covid-19 “vaccines.” Memory has a way of winning.

A more likely explanation for the revisionist lies is that they advance a specific agenda.