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by microdrum 1682 days ago
"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

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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...