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Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever by josephcsible on Monday August 23, 2021 @05:14PM (#28282043)
This is worse than that. With that, the argument sticks with that one definition throughout. Here, one meaning of "muscle weakness" is being used to make it sound scary, and another meaning is used to say COVID causes it. It's the equivocation fallacy.
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Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever by Alex3917 on Monday August 23, 2021 @09:49PM (#28284294)
So you're arguing that the New England Journal of Medicine article is using the word "weakness" in a colloquial sense, rather than in the medical sense, in the same sentence that the words "dyspnea" and "myalgia" appear?:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2109072

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