> You can't get COVID if you get the vaccine (A lie), You can't spread COVID if you get the vaccine (A lie).

I don’t recall this. My memory was that the messaging was primarily around reduced risk of serious illness /death and reduced risk of transmission.

I do recall the CDC or whoever in the early days saying not to wear masks, which felt like an obvious lie, I presumed at the time to protect supplies for medical professionals. I also recall it was a few years before they acknowledged it was airborne, despite having sufficient evidence it may be quite some time (and previously messaging was that it was affirmatively not airborne).

The pandemic sucked but the politics around it were just so gross and disheartening. Anyhow, this is all way off topic for the original article.