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by lostlogin 1684 days ago
> The burden isn't on me… The burden is on you

You made up a definition of what ‘vaccine’ means then decided that covid vaccines don’t meet it.

The vaccines do a pretty good job at preventing morbidity and mortality. Feel free to sue someone if you disagree and if American tort law allows it.

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"If I get the immunization, I won't get it."

That is what the word vaccine means to ordinary people. Stop accusing me of changing a definition that your side is changing. [1] That kind of behavior belongs on Reddit.

[1] https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=50886

100% effective vaccines don't exist.

Merriam Webster's old definition excluded many vaccines ordinary people called vaccines. Diphtheria and tetanus most clearly. And other dictionaries had definitions compatible with mRNA vaccines.[1]

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=vaccine&oldid=51...