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rrjkr's avatar

There was this one time, at band camp...

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theCryptofishist's avatar

I still maintain that the root of anti-vaxxing is the fact that people's children cry, and even scream, when they get jabbed. Some parents invent elaborate stories to justify not giving them to their children, and it snowballs.

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malsperanza's avatar

More likely the father's DNA.

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rrjkr's avatar

He says he's cool with that. Getting kind of tired of trying to save people from themselves, and in light of the treatment he received on the last go round, he says he's not even sure why he's still trying. Says you monkeys are on your own

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dan gerene's avatar

As a Twitter commenter said, "how come the camera isn't shaking?" when she took the video of her own feet.

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Some kind of Fred's avatar

A lot of long haulers have had that experience but far from all. My speculation is that there's more than one cause and some people have persistent virus that later vaccination clears out.

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Some kind of Fred's avatar

Not to mention that it fuses with cells instead of floating around like secondhand smoke.

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Some kind of Fred's avatar

Gotta be careful with those estimates. There's almost no direct testing of whether exposure causes disease -- ethics and cost are obstacles.So we measure antibody levels, because that's relatively easy, but it's not guaranteed to be the same as protection level.Plus antibody levels are guaranteed to drop over time because if you continued to have full antibody levels to all the infections of your life there would not be much room in your bloodstream for anything else. Plus if they're needed again there are memory B cells that can restart production.

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MilesGregarius's avatar

I died from the vaccine last Tuesday, but it's OK. I got better.

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MilesGregarius's avatar

If only.

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MilesGregarius's avatar

Hoboken?

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simpledinosaur's avatar

Well, maybe you're on to something there.

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Vi's avatar

I have witnessed grand mal seizures and they are nothing like this. For one thing, the sufferer can't talk while it's happening, and for another they are usually a bit dazed and confused after it passes (often needing a nap/not sure of what has just happened), and for yet another thing - if you are having such violent convulsions, how is it that you have enough control to lift both of your shaking legs? Maybe her problems are more in the mental realm.

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Vi's avatar

That reminds me of an old joke:Two cows are hanging out in the pasture and one cow asks the other if they are worried about catching Mad Cow disease. The cow answers "What have I got to be worried about? I'm a helicopter!"

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Vi's avatar

Hey! Hey! You! You!

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