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You are simply factually incorrect. Did you ever hear of Shingles? That's just one example.

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I sent Elaine Stritch performing this song to my BIL when he came up cancer free, four years in after colon cancer treatment. She was awesome. And he's still here.

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That Dr. Asshole who claimed the MMR vaccine causes autism scared all kinds of parents in the 90's. Though completely discredited, and his medical license revoked, and The Lancet journal took a hit to its reputation for publishing his "study," there are still way too many people who are reluctant to get their kids immunized against chicken pox, measles, etc. I thought Hannah Gadsby's Netflix special "Douglas" did a great job taking those antivax idiots on. POLIO. That one word should be putting fear into their brains. MEASLES is so highly contagious! It can do TERRIBLE things to a child. Children can die from all of these diseases, as all Wonketties understand. And yet. Can anyone explain Robert Kennedy Jr.'s crusade so it makes sense?.

Also, too, remember when TFG was giving terrible advice about Covid, including ingesting bleach, and people ACTUALLY DIED following his advice, and it was publicized, and yet MAGAts kept holding him up as a great President?."Think about how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of 'em are stupider than that." --George Carlin

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I'm a reasonably informed person yet what you just posted is not widely known, and I didn't know it had been used 14 years ago!

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What does "landslide" mean in the mid-terms? What there average or higher than average turnout in all groups in FLA?

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I'm so, so sorry for your loss.

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And a real, live, female person of color headed the development of one: https://www.theroot.com/dr-...

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Now, you just stop openly expressing what I'm secretly thinking.

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When I caught COVID, my shot and boosters turned it into a 48-hour nap. After 48 hours of sleeping curled up with cats, I was fine.

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Shingles is a resurgence of a virus that was lying dormant in your cells. The new mRNA vaccines are pretty amazing - they contain no virus, live or dead, part or whole, but a synthetic piece of RNA that instructs your cells to make a surface protein from the virus. That one protein can't be infectious on its own. What it does is to prime your immune system to recognize it. That priming process is what causes the minor symptoms associated with getting vaccinated. After that, the RNA and the protein are all gone, and what's left behind are immune cells that know to go after that protein in case you are exposed again. So, there is absolutely no chance for a shingles-like dormant virus situation, because there's no virus there in the first place.

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Nope. the fact that a virus that infected a person can in rare occasions lie dormant does NOT mean that a small PART of a virus (that is how a mrna vaccine works) in a vaccine that is rounded up by the immmune response can cause any symptoms years later.

And shingles vaccines seem to have the exact same effect as covid vaccines: they reduce nasty outcomes/symptoms. So wrong again.

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Shitler murdered over one million Americans with his Covid lies and BS. https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

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Your use of the term "jab" makes me think you're a MAGAt. Do everyone a favor and stay the fk away from other people.

BTW "it's" only ever means 'it is.'

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Double vaxxed, double boosted. I got covid19. It was a really mild cold. No idea how much worse it would have been without all that. However, I lost two family members to it before the vaccines came out.

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Canned clam undoubtedly.

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Yeah but that was ten years ago. They still haven'y fixed it.

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