Off the top of my head. I can think of three reasons:
1) Quite a few of us here believe that the mRNA jabs, in particular, were something completely different from traditional vaccines. So to use the term is to accept a false, and deceitful, premise. They're a radical mass introduction of gene therapy, not a "vaccine" by any traditional definition.
2) In the thick of covidian madness, esp 2020-2023, the state and their evil minions, social media companies and a hodgepodge of censorious NGOs (who still, somehow, got paid by the state) tried hard to remove crimethink such as, "These Covid shots are causing problems." One way to avoid the automated censorship tools was to be creative in one's choice of words. Dr John Campbell still does an obvious dance with censors on Youtube-- much of it is automated censorship.
3) [Related to (2),] all the cool kids started using those circumlocutions, and it's a sign of some shared battle scars. We're in the same club.
No doubt there are more. Those came immediately to mind.
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Date: 2025-03-16 09:03 pm (UTC)1) Quite a few of us here believe that the mRNA jabs, in particular, were something completely different from traditional vaccines. So to use the term is to accept a false, and deceitful, premise. They're a radical mass introduction of gene therapy, not a "vaccine" by any traditional definition.
2) In the thick of covidian madness, esp 2020-2023, the state and their evil minions, social media companies and a hodgepodge of censorious NGOs (who still, somehow, got paid by the state) tried hard to remove crimethink such as, "These Covid shots are causing problems." One way to avoid the automated censorship tools was to be creative in one's choice of words. Dr John Campbell still does an obvious dance with censors on Youtube-- much of it is automated censorship.
3) [Related to (2),] all the cool kids started using those circumlocutions, and it's a sign of some shared battle scars. We're in the same club.
No doubt there are more. Those came immediately to mind.
*Ochre Harebrained Curmudgeon*