• T (they/she)@beehaw.org
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    I can’t understand this. She was fine retaking the childhood vaccines but the one for COVID. What kind of misinformation led her to believe that?

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      It became a matter of political identity. Rejecting Covid, the science, the vaccine, and the reasonable public health measures became more important to them that life itself.

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            Don’t forget that autism anti vaccine movement was fueled by fairly intelligent well educated people who were tricked by one flawed study. We shouldn’t assume people are stupid if they’re anti vaccines.

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              After I got the first dose of a covid vaccine, Astra-Zeneca, I posted on Facebook that I had gotten the vaccine and now have the autism. My friend who is autistic replied and said, “You had the autism before you got the vaccine!”

              Oh. Right.

              I’m Candian so I’m, OG A-Z M P P Omicron PBiV so far. I had the OG Covid back in December 2019 before it got cool and everyone started doing it.

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      The usual primary talking point is that it was developed “too fast”, which is of course ignoring a bunch of very important “details”. But explaining why that is wrong takes multiple sentences, but shouting out the misrepresentation that pulls people in can be done in a second.

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        Remember that us idiots that took the vaccination would die in about half a year? I can’t remember my funeral, but I really hope it was beautiful.

        Or maybe we didn’t die and their bullshit was all made up and by now they could have had a chance to understand that. But that’s speculative.

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          I had a discussion with an anti-reality troll on Reddit who insisted that I would be dead within a year of taking the vaccine. He actually did a RemindMe! 1 year. That was more than 2 years ago and I never heard back from him. I wonder if he died?

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      Its because its made psuedo-mandatory by the government. If you don’t trust the gov (no one shoule trust the gov), then I can see not trusting the vaccine.

      Its a matter of trust, and the government isn’t trustworthy.

      Edit: trustful to trustworthy

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        I think you mean trustworthy.

        The government is more trustworthy than the people telling you the vaccine is dangerous.

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            Well, you are right on this at least. Especially since cops are some of the bigger supporters of anti-vax nonsense, that only care about displays of force over understanding of context.

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        You know who’s trustworthy? Dr. Dimpleton69 from this lit Telegram group, he’s legit and a real doctor, not a scam artist at all.

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        If you don’t trust the gov (no one shoule trust the gov)

        I see you need to vote for trustworthy community-minded types so you can learn to trust the people you appoint to manage consolidated resources.

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          Politicians are all self serving assholes. Best you can do is either vote for the most incompentent or vote for the one that at least panders to you.