• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    12 days ago

    I cannot decide if the right are really that stupid or if this is just satire.

  • ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip
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    12 days ago

    well obviously we should make this groundbreaking new approach available to anyone who wants it alongside traditional vaccines.

    then we can just require proof of vaccination or this new alternative - let’s call it “inoculation” for now - for school attendance.

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      12 days ago

      Jack Posobic is a right wing douche nozzle. Dude’s either serious as a heart attack or knows how dumb the people he peddles this shit to are and this is him screaming into the ether.

  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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    12 days ago

    The oral polio vaccine actually did that. It used an attenuated virus that didn’t just confer immunity on the recipient; the mild infection from that weakened virus was (somewhat) transmissible to the community at large. Everyone who was directly vaccinated via OPV had a small but significant chance of infecting and thus immunizing the people around them.

    Of course, there was also the problem that the attenuated vaccine occasionally mutated, and about 25 years ago, we got to the point that the vaccine was actually causing more cases of paralytic poliomyelitis than the almost entirely eradicated wild variants…

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      12 days ago

      The same thing that always happens will happen: I can’t take it! It makes me sick!

      (For a day).

      The resilience and lack of capacity for any discomfort at all is mind boggling. A fever for 1 day probably won’t kill you, will protect your family, and save you A LOT of money in medical bills and work loss (paycheck loss) going forward.

      I’ve done 2 things post COVID booster, and post H1N1 which was live attenuated in the nose: stayed home and played a computer game, or, took Tylenol and gone about my day.

      It amazes me that society continues to function given people the number of people who can’t handle minor life discomforts without complete personal implosion. Granted, the grace with which COVID masking for 10-20min at a time was handled by the masses is a marker of that.

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    10 days ago

    This is what happens when you break words by altering their definitions. We recently broke the word vaccine, and already we have people who don’t know that a weakened virus is a vaccine.

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    12 days ago

    That’s how I fought off covid the 3 times it jumped me. And no I am not antivax just never managed to make time for it and since it was broadcast as not stopping the infection I didn’t feel the urgency. Worst covid did was a medium flu like setup so just rode it out

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      12 days ago

      You fought off covid by being exposed to a weakened form of it? Did you get the Novavax shot? Or has the brain fog persisted and you’re just a little bit confused

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        I got no shot, no antibiotics, nor any palliative attention from anyone. Just hunkered down at home and kept hydrated.

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          12 days ago

          No surprises there, antibiotics do horse-shit against viruses and if you had gotten palliative care you wouldn’t be writing comments any more.

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          12 days ago

          That’s great for you. My grandfather died from it. And he hadn’t died from the common cold or a flu.

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            12 days ago

            My mom died of it too back in '21. She had copd and kidney and heart issues as well, so it was not unexpected

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              12 days ago

              Not my grandfather. He had come through colds, several cases of flu and even pneumonia. COVID got him.

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    12 days ago

    This is why I see the political spectrum as just a circle … there is no far right or far left

    There is a center at the top and if you move to the right or left, you end up at the left side of the circle or right side of the circle … if you politics go any further, the start traveling inward and meet at the bottom … the far right is no different than the far left.

    So our job is to have this never ending circus balancing act of standing on this circle … it is constant work to keep it all balanced because if we drift to one end, we are liable to drift too far and end up at the bottom.