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It also was to increase the number of people who got covid after being vaccinated, instead of before.

Edit - to elaborate, I just mean that it made sense to try to keep infections down and give companies time to develop a vaccine. Not sure why this struck a nerve.

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I think you got downvotes because it sounded like a conspiracy theory, when actually I think you were just trying to say that the idea was to get people vaccinated before they came in contact with the real disease to ease the symptoms, or even give immunity.

Exactly. Look at New Zealand's low excess death rate by allowing almost the entire population to get vaccinated before infection.

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