"Immune" as in you can't get infected by it, "immune" as in you're a carrier but you don't get sick, and "immune" as in you get sick but you don't die are all very different things that people have been irresponsibly conflatinghttps://twitter.com/KagroX/status/1295589760552009728 …
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I.e. kids *do* get infected and pass the virus on to their parents and other adults (the biggest immediate concern) But they also do, eventually, show symptoms, it's just that the *immediate* symptoms aren't very severe (but who knows about the long term)
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I'm not even sure it's there - kids just tend to have less severe cases. And until schools all come back, tend to have less exposure, since fairly few eight year olds work in meat packing factories.
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And having that "Almost" in the statement makes it such a worthless statement overall. We have seen kids die from complications related to the virus. "Almost" immune doesn't mean anything at all.
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"Almost" is all well and good until it's your own kid, yes
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I feel like no one started using anything but definition 1 or at least some variety of definition 1 (like "much less likely to get infected by it") until... I dunno, not that long ago? Like no one ever gets called "immune to cancer", or at least I've never seen it
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Yeah...I mean, even now, I think it's almost entirely definition 1, or just some fast-talk to imply it.
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