Politics and Money

[lesgetrich]

The only lying has come from your right wing buddies who've been responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans from COVID. You should be ashamed...

The FDA and Pharmaceutical companies have never argued that they tested the vaccines for transmission or that vaccinated people could never transmit COVID. They never claimed that their vaccine, or any vaccine, was 100% effective in preventing people from getting COVID. The degree of effectiveness of each vaccine (ranging from around 80% to around 95%) was always published with the release of the vaccines to the public. They never claimed that vaccinated people would never die or be hospitalized, only that the deaths and hospitalizations would be reduced by roughly the degree of the effectiveness of their vaccines among people who were vaccinated. Any other claims that you've made are a straw man fallacy.

What Is a Straw Man Argument? Definition and Examples

The straw man fallacy is an informal fallacy, which means that the flaw lies with the arguer’s method of arguing rather than the flaws of the argument itself. The straw man fallacy avoids the opponent’s actual argument and instead argues against an inaccurate caricature of it. By doing this, the straw man fallacy is a fallacy of relevance, because with it the arguer doesn’t engage with the relevant components of their opposer’s position.