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by x0x0 1792 days ago
It's not medical personnel's fault that people don't know what words mean. Again, medical personnel were clear that herd immunity would prevent widespread, but not local, outbreaks. It definitely didn't mean, and was never claimed to be, that you had no risk of getting sick.

Even on random fox news article that comes up via searching herd immunity, the subtitle is

"Herd immunity doesn’t make any one person immune"

https://www.foxnews.com/health/herd-immunity-looking-unlikel...