163 points

No, just a higher percentage of em. Which is exactly what happened.

On the other hand, I’ve heard a lot of antivaxxers proclaim everyone who got the shot would be dead by last year.

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59 points

Also, that’s not the fucking point. The vaccination protects everyone, even if you aren’t at a high risk of death from COVID. Every infection is an opportunity for mutation, and every vaccination brings us closer to herd immunity.

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22 points

They aren’t real big on “facts”, those who are saying the opposite… It’s more like a “feels like” statement, which they repeat b/c someone on the TV or radio said it, therefore it must be true.

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6 points

They also aren’t big on doing things for the sake of other people.

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We’re already at a point where almost everyone has either been vaccinated or infected, but neither prevents you from getting sick again or from transmitting covid without realizing you are sick. IIRC the herd immunity stuff people were talking about at the beginning was being hopeful that transmission could be reduced enough to stop the virus from sustaining itself in the population, but it turned out to be too infectious for that to work. Not to say it isn’t worth getting vaccinated to reduce your own chance and severity of illness but at this point will it really be making that much difference in how many people get sick?

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13 points

Yes, a thousand times yes.

Pardon me for being uncivil, but your ignorance is violence. People like you are the reason people like me (immunocompromised) have died. Even years after the first infection, in the face of mountains of data and the advice of experts, you’re still sharing moronic, anri-intellectual talking points spread by conservatives to help them stay in power.

A vaccine does not eliminate your chances of getting sick, it reduces your chances of getting sick. Herd immunity was both achievable and observed in communities that weren’t run by dipshits. You do not remember correctly.

If everyone had actually gotten vaccinated, it would have saved countless lives and shortened the pandemic. We know this because there are countries that handled the pandemic better than we did, saw fewer deaths, recovered more quickly, and did not experience second- or third-wave variant outbreaks.

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Yep, a whole bunch of the Q Anon adjacent folks, mostly evangelical extremist conspiracy theorists at this point, were calling the vaccine a ‘clotshot’ and a bioweapon, and were actually claiming it would kill basically everyone who got it within a year.

Lots of overlap with the people that think 5g is a mind control weapon.

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Exactly. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/7/27/2258381/-Red-state-governors-sacrificed-200-000-Americans-to-COVID-19

Their own party sacrificed hundreds of thousands of people for bullshit.

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96 points

By his anti Vax logic…

It’s been three years

Shouldn’t all the vaccinated be dead by now?

What a moron

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46 points

I thought it was meant to be the other way around. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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17 points

Yes, still waiting for the Bill Gates microchips to kick in from the vaccines. Maybe its the win 11 upgrade delaying stuff…

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1 point

Wait, or maybe the chip needs reboot and manual fix after Crowdstrike.

Has anyone reported blue light dots under their skin during nighttime?

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34 points

That’s not how it works.

Also, it’s been three years, should all the vaccinated be zombies by now?

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Who the fuck ever said that the vaccine was necessary for the survival of most of the population?

For most of us this was about contributing to herd immunity for the benefit of those who were at risk of permanent injury or death from covid, and about lowering the personal risk of going through a bad infection yourself.

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8 points

Stupid people. Like Elon.

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I would assume the screenshot is photoshopped.

I mean, I would, but by the musk of it… it smells legit.

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Facepalm

!facepalm@lemmy.wtf

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