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larry gassan's avatar

I hit antivaxxers in the face with “after you die, I’ll be at your house to get your gun collection and liquor cabinet [providing its not Fireball of White Claw]” Nothing scares them more than a LibTard touching their guns. Ammosexuals are like that.

John Santos's avatar

"Also on Wednesday, it was announced that mFlusiva, a new MRNA flu vaccine manufactured by Moderna, was approved by the FDA for people age 50 and older, even after they said they wouldn’t approve it (because researchers tested it against the flu vaccine rather than no vaccine at all)."

The test the anti-VAXers (or, if they wish a more positive appellation, pro-deathers) are demanding, would be profoundly and irredeemably unethical. It is a violation of every medical standard to do proactive controlled study of a treatment where the control group is untreated when there exists an effective treatment that the control group is denied. See the Tuskegee syphilis experiment and Dr. Mengele's work. The antivaxers are literally Nazis.

Wondering Woman's avatar

I feel like most of the opposition to vaccines is of the “I know a guy” or “I heard about a guy” who was one of a small number of people who had a reaction to a vaccine with terrible consequences. No real evidence but confirms to what people want to believe.

larry gassan's avatar

Insert Facebook Comments And Drum Circle here

Nathan Bell's avatar

Also, I caught autism by eating at Texas Roadhouse.

Nathan Bell's avatar

Seems like anybody with a working brain just ignores the idiots in charge, doesn’t it?

fawkedifiknow's avatar

This just in! MAGA "do your own researchers" have recently determined that blood letting is not quite the cure for dangerous humors in the elderly and have withdrawn their invaluable seal of approval. RFK, Jr. and Bill Kassidy had no comment.

SunMoonStars's avatar

You can choose to die all you want just don't take us with you. I assure you more on your side will be taken out and I am not losing sleep over it.

bakeneko's avatar

I don't think I've related this personal story since it was current for me, but I will always be *very* grateful for the 'side effects' I got from the Moderna Covid vaccine when it first became available.

A couple of days after receiving the vaccine, I ended up with blood in my stool, necessitating a trip to ER to have it diagnosed.

It took literally 3 weeks to get an appointment for a colonoscopy, but when I had it, discovered that I had a malignant tumor that had been developing for~3 years, but fortunately had not yet metastasized.

After 9 months of chemo and radiation, I was given a clean bill of health, and have had no recurrence now in over 5 years.

My Erdos Number Is Five's avatar

It seems unlikely that people will stop being stupid in the near future. Fixed it for you.

oscarphile's avatar

This is my fantasy:

A 100% fatal, unprecedentedly contagious, slowly debilitating, highly painful disease arises that can be cured by drinking a glass of water. Tens of thousands of doctors, including Fauci, tell people to drink water, and they do and survive, but the rapist tells his cult that the water cure is bullshit, and fills his cabinet only with people who agree it is bullshit. The cult refuses to drink a glass of water and goes extinct.

larry gassan's avatar

Brawndo. That is all.

Birb-General of the US's avatar

Growing up, there was no flu vaccine, but flu was considered survivable. Then when I was in my 20's I heard that a business associate of mine in her 50's had died of the flu. I was startled to learn that was possible. At some point "flu shots" gradually became a thing people started getting, but I thought it was to avoid getting the flu, not to keep you from dying. There was a swine flu fiasco in the 70's, but at least it brought the idea of mass inoculations for flu to public consciousness. I got a flu shot one year, and it was one where they missed guessing the endemic strain, so I got the flu anyway and I was in bed for nine days. It made me suspicious of the value of flu shots. Now I am an old so I am much more concerned and I get my flu shot every year. Haven't had the flu in 20+ years. Looking forward to trying the new mRNA flu shot.

Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

My maternal grandmother was born in 1900, the youngest of three daughters.

In 1918, both her parents died from the Spanish Flu.

Mark's avatar

"ore studies, especially with post-mortem investigations, are needed to deepen understanding of the possible pathophysiological mechanisms of fatal vaccine side effects."

I hope the first thing they are looking at is underlying conditions which may be obscure whose interactions could not be tested for. (Because they're so rare)

Joe Schmoe, Troublemaker's avatar

The GOP. Bending and breaking reality and lying 24/7 since its founding (well, at least since the Great Political Swap of Values and Viewpoints when the Dems evolved into the good/better folk)

Jen Lacks a Domesticated Bone's avatar

They're now blaming all the covid deaths ON the vaccine. No it does not matter to them that many of those people died before the vaccine was available.

They are horrible people.

noname's avatar

I'm pretty damn tired of mostly all the wrong people dying.

ChrisJohnson's avatar

The guy who wrote the bogus, later retracted "study" linking measles vaccine with autism (Andrew Wakefield) is a total ghoul. He lost his medical license as a result and has caused incredible harm. Yet he's living fat and sassy in Texas making a good living pushing anti-vaxer nonsense. Anybody interested should Google the Hviid study that brought Wakefield down. But the anti-vaxer clowns don't do this thing. But what do I know. I'm just a Mayo-trained expert with 45 years experience in pediatric infectious diseases.

LP's avatar

RFK scoffs at the word "expert"! He doesn't need no stinkin' experts! Unfortunately for the rest of the country.

Courser's avatar

I tried to get both CoVid & Flu vaccines yesterday at my Dr appointment but was told it would be best if I waited for the new ones to come out.

ChrisJohnson's avatar

I've heard the same. The season kick-off is typically October for both vaccines.