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[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 139 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Every year I post a screenshot of my aunt's rant about everyone dying from the covid vaccine in 3 years.

Every year people tell me that's not polite, and every year I reply that admitting you were wrong is free.

[–] aaa999@lemmy.world 34 points 3 weeks ago

being wrong in ways that kill people, naturally, is polite

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 28 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I like to repost my mother-in-law's posts about how she 100% guaranteed Russia wouldn't invade Ukraine. (From 3 months before the start of the Ukraine war.)

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Ouch, I said that too. I honestly thought Putin wouldn't be that stupid, because the guerilla war that followed the occupation would be insanely costly.

But I'll admit I was wrong.

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[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Is your aunt dead or does she get to live with the shame and ridicule? If she is dead, then this a definitely a way harder flex than if she isn't.

I deleted my Facebook because I would be going scorched Earth on everyone, mostly family, in my friends list. I don't associate with most of them IRL, but at least I haven't put in writing my true feeling about them and people that think like them. My thoughts are abundantly clear on Lemmy behind the veil of anonymity.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 26 points 3 weeks ago

Oh no, she's alive. She occasionally posts weird US political shit while living in the UK..

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[–] Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com 137 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

What’s the latest antivax gotcha going round? I’m blissfully out of the loop.

[–] masinko@lemmy.world 152 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

RFK blames Faucci for the measles outbreak and is calling people bad parents for not vaccinating their kids against measles.

When called out about his anti-vaccine rhetoric he's been spouting the last few years, he's crashing out and being defensive about how people are twisting his words / that's not what he said / etc.

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 61 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Measles was one item. The other was the highly politicized and performative congressional hearing over Fauci's diary where they are foaming at the mouth about all his "lies". One such "lie" was his questioning the usefulness of masks in like Dec 2019. They address that as if that was his unwavering position to this day.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 37 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

One such "lie" was his questioning the usefulness of masks in like Dec 2019.

It was more like Feb or March 2020 and was deliberate in order to try to stop the panicked public hoarding masks so that medical workers could have them.

[–] Dultas@lemmy.world 38 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

There was also the factor of if the general public would even be able to use them in a functional manner. Which I can say from some of the stupid ways I saw people wearing them, is not an unfounded worry.

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

And that is exactly the level of nuance they are incapable of addressing. They just cry about his "lies" and when pressed for details it's the pathetic "do your own research" or "watch the videos". Hell you could even point out explicitly that his mask comment was so early and given the context it's completely understandable. They might avoid that one tiny specific topic for a bit, but they'll eventually come back to some grand "fauci lied about everything". And they can't comprehend the actual issues that matter.

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[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Measles cases are peaking higher than any time in the last 30 years?

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[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

They remembered that Faucci exists and that the country was overtaken by the tyranny of us wearing 4 inch pieces of paper on our faces so we don't kill sick people.

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[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 88 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

I feel like I have a little extra right to be pissed off about this. I volunteered to be part of the first round of trials for the vaccine because I needed to feel like I was doing something to help. I literally risked my life to help develop this safe vaccine and now so many people are throwing that away.

[–] sploder@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Thank you for what you did. It was brave.

I took the vaccine 2 times as soon as it was available and then on the third round I had a severe adverse reaction and was in the hospital for a few days with myocarditis.

I had family members face time me and say “ I told you it was dangerous, now look where you are “

I still encourage people to take the vaccine. I believe my reaction was because I got the flu shot and covid vaccine in the same day.

I still have not had Covid. A few doctors have told me that if I were to get it I’d probably die because of how severe my reaction was to the vaccine. Each time I had it, I had severe pain in my left arm and weird sensations. Then the third time it got me.

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[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 79 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Since nobody asked: I got the shot and then contracted Covid while vacationing in the middle of nowhere. It was still really really bad, sickest I've ever been from a virus. If I wasn't vaccinated, then I'd be dead now.

[–] iocase@lemmy.zip 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

I got it November 2019 (I'm pretty certain) as a healthy early-20s in prime fitness and I nearly died alone in my apartment. I have never been that sick before.

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[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago

I also got the shot and still got it. Thankfully I was home and had family to help. I was out of it for about 4 days. The only times I was awake was when I was coughing so hard I would pass out again. It was the sickest I'd ever been and while I probably wouldn't have died from it, I'm incredibly grateful I didn't have it worse.

[–] adam_y@lemmy.world 73 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

There's some real batshot politics going on in Europe right now, but every time I feel I'm going under, I look across the Atlantic and I see an army laid low with 'flu, a diarrhoea outbreak and a measles outbreak in 2026, and I think, y'know, maybe it isn't so bad here.

I'm sorry you all have to endure this. It must make you feel like you are going insane. To deal with such blatant and brutal gaslighting anti-intellectualism.

[–] IvyisAngy@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I am going insane.

I think the absolute worst part is that I am the one being treated like I'm stupid for being college educated or for just having common sense.

Its like trying to talk and every time you do 20 toddlers scream and shit thier pants at the same time.

There's a minority in the US that is both loud and smells. Unfortunately, they drown the rest of us out, and make a bad taste in everyone else's mouth that I can't blame them for.

The Anti-intellectualism has been a thing for years though, it's suddenly exploded because it hit critical mass and they finally got one of thier guys elected while the rest of us were looking the other way (or in my case, too young to vote.)

Now? Being stupid is being smart. Being contrarian is being patriotic, money is God. Up is down, the sky is green.

I heard a teacher say Moscow was in Ukraine yesterday. No amount of pointing to it on a fucking map could convince her otherwise.

I am. Going. Insane.

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[–] ZeroCool@piefed.ca 66 points 3 weeks ago

You were warned. 😂

About what? The dangers of using a stupid profile pic template on social media half a decade ago? It's sad how desperate these anti-vaxxers are for a win.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 53 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You know, if someone told me ten years ago that the phrase "I'm vaccinated" would turn me on as much as "Want me to suck your dick?" I would have called them insane.

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 36 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

"I've been vaccinated so many times I've lost count. Yeah, I'm such a dirty slut for the vax. Pfizer, Moderna, they've all been inside me. Sometimes I don't even know their names - if it's mRNA I let them put it in."

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 16 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

I was gang-vaccinated when I went into the military. Didn't stand a chance.

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[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 29 points 3 weeks ago

“Talk dirty to me”

“I believe in basic science…”

“Hnnnngh, I’m gonna explode”

Sounds about right.

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 37 points 3 weeks ago

One of my favorite parts of the covid vaccine thing, other than not getting covid, was how the goalposts kept being dragged a month or two back when the shots didn't kill me. My favorite interaction was someone telling me the jab would kill me in 30 years. I was 40 at the time. Im sure something will get me in 30 years, lol.

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 33 points 3 weeks ago

Warned about what

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 30 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Why are people deleting their vaccinated status?

[–] masinko@lemmy.world 69 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

No one is. MAGA-pilled people act against their own self-interest to own the libs, they think the left must do the same.

Now that RFK is pushing people to get vaccinated, they think the libs must be embarrassed being pro-vaccine.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Thank you. I actually understand the fascist mind for this moment in time, at least.

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[–] rustyfish@piefed.world 49 points 3 weeks ago

They aren’t. Do not engage with dipshits and their dipshittery.

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[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 26 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)
  1. Prestigious health science man is put in kangaroo court and refuses to play ball.

  2. "Guess that means all science is wrong!"

???

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[–] Spooge@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

The same guy that came out with the smash hit song "Earth is Flat NASA Lies". I'm not going to link his shitty YT account, but that's the kind of dunce that says this kind of shit. The internet has all the information humans will ever have, and somehow people are dumber because of it.

[–] thallamabond@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Flat earthers all need to try this one weird trick. Around the 5th or 6th floor of beachfront hotels you can start seeing the curvature of the Earth versus straight lines. An example would be a railing on about balcony, line the ocean up in the center and sure enough two edges will be dipped down below that. My problem is so many of them like this gentleman have something to sell, it's all a grift

[–] Dultas@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

They'll just come up with some nonsensical excuse. Look at the ones that setup experiments in 'Behind the Curve'. They setup I think 2 different experiments that show results you would expect from a spherical earth and they hand wave it away. You can't logic someone out of a belief they didn't logic their way into.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I have no idea which vaccine I actually got, but it came as two shots that had to be taken a couple of weeks apart. I got the first shot and was absolutely fine, and then I actually did get covid. I actually went and had a blood test which confirmed it, although apparently I looked like death itself so it wasn't really necessary.

I cannot believe how unimaginably ill I was. I could barely climb the stairs, I had absolutely no idea what was going on half the time because my brain was just gunk, and I had constant coughing fits that felt like my respiratory system was attempting to turn itself inside out.

I eventually got better on my own and later on had the second shot.

I've had covid again since then and was barely any better than the first time.

So now I'm on a list of extremely vulnerable people alongside my 70 year old parents, immunocompromised individuals and infants. Apparently my immune system is rubbish.

So I have absolutely no time for people that refuse to take shots.

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