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Send this one to the vaccine deniers in your life (Original Post) True Dough Sunday OP
At least when they voluntarily identify themselves you know who to stay away from. tanyev Sunday #1
Smart move to steer clear of the "Darwin Zone" Blue Owl Sunday #2
tRUMP got covid shots and boosters. THIS bluestarone Sunday #3
Is that a wall clock on his wrist? twodogsbarking Sunday #4
Yeah boiii! JoseBalow Sunday #9
ya made ma day twodogsbarking Sunday #10
Awww look at him - so proud of his ignorant self. Marie Marie Sunday #5
Before organic chemistry, medicines were herbal. Native Americans and Euro colonists had herbalists. They still died. ChicagoTeamster Sunday #6
These Idiots ProfessorGAC Sunday #7
My sister insists that elderberry syrup or some crap COL Mustard Sunday #14
I've studied herbalism for 50 years. There's no "preventative.... haele Sunday #18
VACCINE PROTESTORS ARE THEIR OWN WORST ENEMY Jimvanhise Sunday #8
There's a website dedicated to these...umm... people progressoid 21 hrs ago #23
"That's different," they say 100% of the time Orrex Sunday #11
Correct. It could be argued that cosmetic surgery is gender affirming care IronLionZion Sunday #12
Please don't tell him BaronChocula Sunday #13
Please die. progressoid Sunday #15
SCIENCE!!! evolves Sunday #16
It is a shame he turned into such a hateful, ignorant, reichwing asshole. I niyad Sunday #17
Oh, this is someone "famous"? An actor? True Dough Sunday #19
Laurence Fox. Wednesdays Sunday #20
Yes, an actor. He played James Hathaway on "Lewis', which was a spinoff niyad Yesterday #21
I made a similar comment to an acquaintance who was a cancer survivor boyedav1969 21 hrs ago #22

bluestarone

(20,796 posts)
3. tRUMP got covid shots and boosters. THIS
Sun Nov 16, 2025, 01:54 PM
Sunday

Needs to be SHOUTED everyday, everyday and everyday. LOUDLY!!

ChicagoTeamster

(183 posts)
6. Before organic chemistry, medicines were herbal. Native Americans and Euro colonists had herbalists. They still died.
Sun Nov 16, 2025, 02:04 PM
Sunday

George Washington ordered the colonial Army vaccinated against smallpox. Native Americans died from diseases that were brought to the New World by the colonists. They all had immune systems. They all had primitive medicines. People still died.

ProfessorGAC

(75,248 posts)
7. These Idiots
Sun Nov 16, 2025, 02:20 PM
Sunday

They are obviously too stupid to understand that vaccines activate their immune system!
It's not medicine. It IS their immune system doing the work.
This is not a difficult concept to grasp. Willful ignorance on full display.

COL Mustard

(7,804 posts)
14. My sister insists that elderberry syrup or some crap
Sun Nov 16, 2025, 03:36 PM
Sunday

Is a better flu preventive than the actual vaccine. It's not worth my time (or my breath) to try to convince her otherwise. Her son is the same. He'll "do his own research" even though he almost flunked out of high school. The ignorance is amazing, and the stupid is strong.

haele

(14,861 posts)
18. I've studied herbalism for 50 years. There's no "preventative....
Sun Nov 16, 2025, 05:35 PM
Sunday

There's herbs and compounds that hasten recovery or mitigate symptoms, but there's no magical cure, and there's no preventative other than isolation from any disease.

Strong, well fed, well cared for people still died throughout the ages.

Sometimes because their "immune" systems were too good and were too aggressive reacting to the virus, bacteria, or whatever triggered the reaction, attacking the entire body rather than just the pathogen.

Sometimes the weakest, apparently sickliest person survived against all odds because they had earlier been exposed to a similar pathogen, and their body knew how to react to the current disease quickly enough to reduce the worst of the damage from the most dangerous symptoms - like a vaccine would.

Sorry your sister and her son are that far into woo.

Jimvanhise

(544 posts)
8. VACCINE PROTESTORS ARE THEIR OWN WORST ENEMY
Sun Nov 16, 2025, 02:21 PM
Sunday

A Republican in Los Angeles refused to get a covid vaccine because she believed the Biden administration was going to make it mandatory. It did not but she got covid and died. Fox News required everyone who worked in the building get the covid vaccine. Fox News had a policeman on in 2021 who quit the force because it was making getting the vaccine mandatory. Fox News celebrated his independence but four months later the guy died from covid and Fox News never mentioned him again.

Orrex

(66,408 posts)
11. "That's different," they say 100% of the time
Sun Nov 16, 2025, 02:53 PM
Sunday

It's like how they're fine with cosmetic surgery to "correct" God's work, but gender reassignment is an abomination.

Anti-vaxers have abandoned reason and are seldom swayed by logic or evidence, even (or especially) when pointing out their own foolishness.

IronLionZion

(50,359 posts)
12. Correct. It could be argued that cosmetic surgery is gender affirming care
Sun Nov 16, 2025, 03:15 PM
Sunday

tons of MAGA politicians have had work done because they apparently didn't like how God made them.

BaronChocula

(3,784 posts)
13. Please don't tell him
Sun Nov 16, 2025, 03:21 PM
Sunday

Everyone who died of the the plague, the Spanish flu, and COVID had immune systems too.

niyad

(128,569 posts)
17. It is a shame he turned into such a hateful, ignorant, reichwing asshole. I
Sun Nov 16, 2025, 05:19 PM
Sunday

liked him in "Lewis". Just reading about some of the legal issues in which he has beeen involved.

True Dough

(25,176 posts)
19. Oh, this is someone "famous"? An actor?
Sun Nov 16, 2025, 06:40 PM
Sunday

I'd never heard of him before. Just saw the social media post.

Wednesdays

(21,342 posts)
20. Laurence Fox.
Sun Nov 16, 2025, 10:35 PM
Sunday
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Fox

"Fox's political career has resulted in multiple controversies and legal disputes."

You don't say?

He's a real work.

niyad

(128,569 posts)
21. Yes, an actor. He played James Hathaway on "Lewis', which was a spinoff
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 12:36 AM
Yesterday

from "Morse". British police series.

boyedav1969

(113 posts)
22. I made a similar comment to an acquaintance who was a cancer survivor
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 12:34 PM
21 hrs ago

She made an "I have an immune system" post at the height of the pandemic. I asked her why she sought chemo and surgery for her breast cancer, since she has an immune system. It turns out some of these people are as ignorant about the role of their own defenses when it comes to malignancies, as they are when it comes to infectious disease.

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