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[–] Templa 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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?

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wonder if the global average IQ went up or down as a result of COVID?

[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

Even mild covid appears to sometimes cause permanent cognitive damage so I doubt it.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8432319/

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Greg@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 6 points 1 year ago

Actually, it wasn't a "flawed study", it was an outright fraud. The doctor responsible lost his medical license, but not quickly enough.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] rentar42@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] VanillaGorilla@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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?

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)