cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/40537048

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“The measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection,” - Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

If only there was another proven way of doing this without the risk of serious complications of getting sick.

  • stoy@lemmy.zip
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    29 days ago

    Well that is a matter of definition, I consider breaking a finger and breaking a leg to both mean that you have broken a bone.

    Your body still fights the measle virus, you are still infected with it, even if it is a lesswr variant.

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      29 days ago

      If someone threw the dead body of a robber into a store, would you also call that store being robbed?

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        29 days ago

        I get what you mean, but if you read the comment I responded to, it mentions a weakened version of the virus, not a dead one.

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          29 days ago

          Okay, different example. If a country dropped a couple of wounded soldiers without weapons over another country’s territory, would you call that an invasion?

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            29 days ago

            I get what you mean, but yeah, if the soldiers are on duty and haven’t got permission from the other country to enter their land, technically it is an invasion.

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                29 days ago

                Under the current regime I am not sure that .gov can be trusted.

                Now, I know the basics of vaccine theory, you expose a host to a weak strain of an infection, their immune response deals with it and learns how to fight the real thing.

                That is a very simplistic way of explaining it, I know, but it is accurate for most people.

                Anyway, this conversation has clearly devolved far away from the article and my, admittedly, bad, though not completely inaccurate joke.

                I am sorry for the bad joke, yes, but the fact is that it is accurate enough for the common man.