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(48,320 posts)Blue Owl
(57,937 posts)bluestarone
(20,796 posts)Needs to be SHOUTED everyday, everyday and everyday. LOUDLY!!
twodogsbarking
(16,796 posts)JoseBalow
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twodogsbarking
(16,796 posts)Marie Marie
(10,735 posts)ChicagoTeamster
(183 posts)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)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)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)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)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.
progressoid
(52,347 posts)plus some other stuff
https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/
Orrex
(66,408 posts)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)tons of MAGA politicians have had work done because they apparently didn't like how God made them.
BaronChocula
(3,784 posts)Everyone who died of the the plague, the Spanish flu, and COVID had immune systems too.
progressoid
(52,347 posts)Oh, is that harsh?
Meh.
evolves
(5,680 posts)Neil DeGrasse Tyson on the importance of science
https://youtube.com/shorts/36DbAQqokko?si=-cg1V4ssfiCLYeI4
niyad
(128,569 posts)liked him in "Lewis". Just reading about some of the legal issues in which he has beeen involved.
True Dough
(25,176 posts)I'd never heard of him before. Just saw the social media post.
Wednesdays
(21,342 posts)"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)from "Morse". British police series.
boyedav1969
(113 posts)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.
