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by KVFinn 1718 days ago
>That vaccine granted immunity was a big one, it rapidly became less symptoms, and from that surreptitiously changed again to well you'll still have a week of feeling like shit, but you'll be less likely to die from it.

Please look up the medical definition of immunity.

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I'd be curious if the definition has changed in the past year (word redefinition seems to a thing lately and it is Literally not for the better!).

Immunity obviously means being immune. Immune has a specific definition and that is not "helps sometimes".

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/immu...

Resistance or, decreased susceptibility, or whatever other term you wish to use, is not the same as immunity.

Otherwise what word do we use for "immunity" now?

no? I know very well the definition. that why I'm stating that the way it was worded at the beginning was a big fat lie, told to the public to coerce compliance, and latter reduced to a more realistic target to manage expectations.
You are entirely ignoring the point the other commenter made about delta changing things. You are simply repeating talking points I've heard over and over, it's exhausting.
you are willfully merging two separate topic into one trying to shut down an argument by adjacency, as if the trite answers you bring could move the discussion forward. do you have points of your own that relate to the topic at hand?