I don’t understand how antivaxxers manage to be so incredibly stupid, vaccines are like one of the easier medical concepts to grasp. You introduce your immune system to a danger in a safe way so it knows how to react when that danger arises naturally. Are they also anti fire drill because it’s basically the same concept?
Fuck, are there microchips in fire drills, too? This insanity has to stop!
I’ve never met anybody who enjoyed doing a fire drill, so… probably.
Then again I’m up in Canada and for whatever reason they like doing annual drills in January 🥶
Remember when they came up with the concept of mRNA-vaccines and they thought it would change their DNA permanently? What we actually got was the most effective vaccines ever. Why is it that with actually good inventions like this we get skeptics, but when we get “AI” nonsense then everybody is just on board?
I’m still waiting for me to just liquify. I’m disappointed, they said it’d happen within a year! Then 2 years. Now 5 years! Just happen already, it’s the waiting that’s the worst part
They don’t trust that medical companies have their best interests at heart, and are motivated by profits. Making people sick is profit.
It really isn’t so strange.
And if you google on vaccine side effects, you will find a lot of them. They are rare, but they happen, and when they do, there is no help to be had.
So why is it stupid to be careful? I think it makes sense.
It’s stupid because they don’t understand probability and risk assessment. Yeah there are side effects but they are exceedingly rare and even if you get them the outcomes are usually far less severe than the disease you’re trying to prevent. It’s like saying “I refuse to wear a seat belt because it might wrinkle my suit jacket.”
I think that’s up to each person to decide. Similar to how it’s rare to die in a flight crash and most people accept the risk, but not all.
Whats so complicated about probability? They know it’s a low probably, but it’s higher than zero, always.
Almost all people who didn’t vaccinate against covid are still alive and well you know.
People take a risk either way. Taking the vaccine or not taking it.
Have you ever heard the phrase “penny wise and pound foolish”? Avoiding vaccines is the opposite of being careful.
You said below it’s up to each person to decide and that’s true in the sense that people can decide what to put in their bodies, but the relative risk of taking a vaccine vs not is simply a fact. You can have your own opinions but you can’t have your own facts.
A lot of medicines have side effect. And a lot of side effects. But you still take them because The thing you’re taking them for fucking sucks
There’s being careful and there’s forgetting the whole point of it all: to not get a life-debilitating sickness. Which a lot of vaccines eliminate.
The point of listing side effects on medicine is so the person can make a decision if it’s worth the risk.
I personally got some pain pills once and after reading the side effects list, I didn’t take them.
It’s only being careful if you’re immunocompromised in some way that would make the vaccine actually dangerous, which is even rarer than side effects being more than soreness.
COVID isn’t a well known virus. The fact that it destroys the nerves between your nose and tongue and your brain is a HUGE red flag that should be terrifying to everyone. Nerves are very similar throughout the body, and we don’t know the full extent of damage caused by it yet. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, which may or may not be the same thing as long COVID considering it is generally caused by various viral infections, is incredibly not well known, but affects far less people supposedly. Maybe the fact that 25% estimated last I checked of people get at a minimum mild long COVID symptoms, and 10% of those never really recover, with most people reporting lowered energy levels permanently (not like enough to be a disability for most) will help drive more research, as there’s a lot of cases of COVID permanently screwing over perfectly healthy people.
I mention here one of the least devastating aspects of ME/CFS and similarly long COVID which share a lot of symptoms. There are people who cannot stand up without assistance because of them. People have lost jobs due to them. And in America, not having a job means not having decent healthcare or any sort of benefits.
Being careful means getting the damn vaccine if you can, when you can, as soon as your doctor tells you that you are healthy enough to do so, every single time. If not for you, then for anyone you care about. Care about human life, get the vaccine.
Then why the fuck do vaccines exist?
They can sell me a single shot against tetanus, pertussis and diphtheria for about 50 bucks.
OR, I can get tetanus, a disease that quotes 3 or 4 weeks of muscle relaxants, painkillers, and a shitload of immunoglobulin costing thousands. That’s followed by possibly months of therapy.
Treating unvaccinated tetanus costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. Getting a vaccine is 50 bucks.
Nobody here benefits, except for me, of course.
Also Bill Gates, though: let’s prevent countries that can’t afford enough doses of the brand name vaccine from making generics!
Not a correction, just a reminder that he’s still a billionaire who probably owns a shitload of shares in pharmaceutical companies.
Every single time Bill Gates gets mentioned in public conversation this needs to be the first thing said about him for the rest of his life. Given the power Bill Gates has he could have easily pushed for Covid vaccines to be made generic and saved tens of thousands? of lives.
This isn’t some pipe dream or unrealistic 20-20 hindsight no one could have had. All he had to was decide it was important to advocate for it and use his power to make it happen. It was no guarantee, but more than anyone else on the planet he has the public, private and monetary unilateral leverage to make something like that happen.
Given the complete lack of desperation or forced choices in Bill Gates life, the choice not to push for generics (and be a talking head on tv actively against them) can and should be seen as indiscriminate mass murder on a societal scale. In terms of world impact it obliterates everything Bill Gates built with windows, computers, all his philanthropy and involvement in medical science… ALL of it in one tidal wave of violence and brutal lack of compassion.
Makes me angry when I hear dumb conspiracies about Bill Gates when this is aspect is sitting there right in the open and it is so much more evil than most of the conspiracies (you know what is worse than having a chip in your head?Your loved one dying from Covid).
Quite impressive how William Henry Gates III managed to PR himself from infamous ruthless capitalist to everyone’s favorite philanthropist. Especially considering he somehow got richer after promising to give away his money.
It needs to be a happy soyboy on the bottom
People who say stupid things like “soyboy” have never experienced chronic heartburn/acid reflux. I love a good steak. But if I did red meat regularly I’d burn through my esophagus. Soy is a perfectly good substitute that doesn’t agitate me and in most things you can’t tell it’s there.
Substitute half of ground beef in any Midwestern casserole with soy crumbles and I’m 95% sure none of these meat babies would be able to tell.
Literally have this discussion with the conservatives of the family every holiday 😂
