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Vaccines are the opposite of healthy, they are specifically made to trigger your immune system. That’s why with most vaccines the next day or days people feel like shit, it’s like being sick. But the vaccine is much better than getting the disease it’s designed for, is perfectly safe and has no permanent effects besides the training it gave the immune system.

Plus most vaccines are perfectly fine to eat, they just won’t work that way.

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That’s like saying exercise is the opposite of healthy, it tears muscle fibres triggering your body to repair them.

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That’s why with most vaccines the next day or days people feel like shit

I have been warned about this for every vaccine I remember taking… other than the occasional sore spot where the injection went, I have never felt any other side effects.

This is anecdotal of course, but I am pretty sure the instances of these mild side effects is less than 10%

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I felt worse after both the covid and the flu vaccine than i did from getting actual covid, but actual covid lasted longer. It varies a lot by person afaik. Not sure if it’s an indicator of how strong ones immune system is or anything.

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Usually I don’t really feel any vaccines, maybe a bit less energy the day after.

But one of the covid vaccines (I think the one for omicron) hit me like a ton of bricks, I was passed out on my bed for a good 24 hours and felt like shit for a couple of days. Heard similar from other people. But with another covid shot I felt nothing where my girlfriend had the worst headache for a day.

So it depends as always. One day of being sick is so much better than getting some of the awful diseases I’ve been vaccinated against.

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One day of being sick is so much better than getting some of the awful diseases I’ve been vaccinated against.

And even more to the point, it’s also much better than spreading some of the awful diseases we get vaccinated against!

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My 2nd covid jab gave me my worst migraine so far. It was so bad I briefly considered killing myself. The normal stuff had 0 effect as well.

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Plus most vaccines are perfectly fine to eat, they just won’t work that way.

I imagine in alternate universe, Covid vaccine would, for some technological, economical or logistical reason became cheap and abundant like water, and restaurants would serve it as a side drink.

Just to spite the republicans.

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We do that with fluoride in the water, Republicans are still mad about it.

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That’s why I only boof my vaccines

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highly doubt any vaccine is toxic if the liquid is eaten

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As someone who knows very little about the vaccines we take, are they actually dangerous if consumed? We literally inject it into our veins (although apparently some injections (not necessarily vaccines) are injected into the muscle), how could it possibly be dangerous if taken orally?

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The whole purpose of not taking vaccines orally is to bypass the digestive system. Not because the vaccine is dangerous to us, but rather our digestive system is dangerous to the vaccine.

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Yeah but I’d be interested to see the actual logic (if there is any) of the person making the claim that taking a spoonful of injected vaccine orally will outright kill you, since it makes no intuitive sense. The response tweet in the OP image is also strange because it seems to accept this premise without question despite objecting to its anti-vaccine stance.

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Not at all. There’s nothing in them that would cause any problems taken orally.

If anything, taking them orally reduces of eliminates their efficacy

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Antivaxx mfers when they learn some vaccines are administered orally

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Polio was somewhat famously administered via eating a sugar cube with the vaccine on.

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Facepalm

!facepalm@lemmy.wtf

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