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Old 11-12-2021, 09:38 AM
 
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It amazes me how easily a political movement can influence long standing definitions of things in our society, especially when it comes to science. Don't like the long standing definition, have it changed to suit your beliefs.
Below is a short video of an MD who is not against vaccines, but rather opposes mandates of them, and he is now lumped into the anti-vax crowd;



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChLeF5wXLmg



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This next video shows shows Dr. Peter Doshi speaking on Capitol Hill on this very subject along with a couple of other interesting things surrounding covid, mandates, definitions, etc.;



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8ShvWc0_kw&t=19s


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Old 11-12-2021, 09:39 AM
 
Location: NMB, SC
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It's called PROPAGANDA.

And they aren't even trying to hide it anymore.

Now can people understand when folks have said that history books have been whitewashed over the years and changed ?
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Old 11-12-2021, 09:39 AM
 
Location: The Piedmont of North Carolina
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1984
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Old 11-12-2021, 09:49 AM
 
Location: West Palm Beach, FL
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I guess I'm an anti-vaxxer, even though I got the shot. These people need to go to hell.
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Old 11-12-2021, 09:52 AM
 
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I guess I'm an anti-vaxxer, even though I got the shot. These people need to go to hell.
To borrow Gov Abbott's words, they can Pound Sand.
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Old 11-12-2021, 09:54 AM
 
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There is no grey area for these people who are continually redefining terms to meet their agenda.

You could be someone who has gotten every single vaccine offered, you could be for the requirement for kids to get smallpox and polio vaccines in order to attend school. You could even be for suggesting people get the COVID "vaccines".

But if you speak out against forcing anyone to get the COVID "vaccine" you are now an "Anti-Vaxxer" who must be silenced. And people go right along with it as if this is totally normal.
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Old 11-12-2021, 10:01 AM
 
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There is no grey area for these people who are continually redefining terms to meet their agenda.

You could be someone who has gotten every single vaccine offered, you could be for the requirement for kids to get smallpox and polio vaccines in order to attend school. You could even be for suggesting people get the COVID "vaccines".

But if you speak out against forcing anyone to get the COVID "vaccine" you are now an "Anti-Vaxxer" who must be silenced. And people go right along with it as if this is totally normal.
I don't recall if it was Joe Rogan or Ben Shapiro who said (paraphrasing) they were shocked how quickly people just started to comply with government orders, even the ones that made no sense.




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Old 11-12-2021, 10:09 AM
 
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Fauci tried to sneak in the other day and change the definition of what “gain of function research” is. Literally changed the wording of it on his NIH website so he would technically not be lying anymore. This kind of stuff is unreal and it’s criminal.
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Old 11-12-2021, 10:09 AM
 
Location: Southeast US
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which dictionary?

Merriam-Webster, which I believe is the standard, hasn't changed

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-vaccine

or do you mean literally "anti-vaxxer" which would really be a colloquialism?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-vaxxer

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a person who opposes the use of vaccines or regulations mandating vaccination
which may merely be an entry based upon a snippet of an article written by bad journalists?

I mean, classically "or" would be you fit in the category if you oppose 1 or the other. But with where the English language is these days it could mean "and" and often is used that way.
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Old 11-12-2021, 10:13 AM
 
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...as a collector of old books, mostly bibles and dictionaries, it's amazing how the vernacular of the times dictates the definition of a word regardless of that word having an already established definition...

...in 1915, when your buddy commented that "you were a little gay when you left the bar last night"...he wasn't calling you a sodomite...he was saying you were a tad tipsy, aka drunk...
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