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 This morning I had a thought. Albeit, one that I have often. The meaning of words. That is to say, their definition. 

When "authorities" change what a word means or how to use it, that is a debasement of language. Think about it. The word vaccine used to mean a treatment that confers FULL immunity so that you can move around freely without fear since you have armor or protection from said disease. Why worry who has an infection. You are vaccinated therefore immune, right?

But with the "pandemic", to be vaccinated meant that others have to be immune for you to be safe. See the underhanded change in the definition? Did you spot it? Others have to be immune, not you. That's what vaccines mean now and we didn't even need a new dictionary,  Merriam-Webster.

Debasement of language is the NEW, NEW inflation. One devalues currency, the other language.

It is a brave new world indeed.

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 What dictionary were you using that said vaccine meant FULL immunity? I’ve never read that anywhere. Genuinely. 

Below is the definition from Webster’s II New Riverside University Dictionary copyright 1984 https://image.nostr.build/c0bf0a6d8e99dc1c5347c3b7e9d64ebe01bf09879eb351b8777d3dbacb70f2c5.jpg