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.
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.
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.
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I wish I could go back to Europe
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.
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Prestigious health science man is put in kangaroo court and refuses to play ball.
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“Guess that means all science is wrong!”
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3. “Bet you regret getting vaccinated now!”
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Yeah that’s what I was saying with my #2
that’s what I was saying with my #2
What a shitpost.
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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.
“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.”
I was gang-vaccinated when I went into the military. Didn’t stand a chance.
That is actually a thing btw. They sit you down in a chair, check your vax records and update you with everything you need all at once.
Lol, this guy thinks that they looked at our vaccine records 😂 🤣 big dawg they gave us all the same vaccines. You don’t remember that every dude had to go through every station? It wasn’t like “OK you go through stations 1, 4, and 5 for mumps, flu, and xyz because you’ve already had xyz vaccines.” It was every dude getting every shot.
You guys got a chair?
I walked past a line of vaccinators while in a line of other sorry SOBs, and we all got vaxxed one after another, assembly line style.
“Talk dirty to me”
“I believe in basic science…”
“Hnnnngh, I’m gonna explode”
Sounds about right.
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.
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.)
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.
being wrong in ways that kill people, naturally, is polite
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.
Plus “bassturd” is awesome
I wonder what it’s like compared to a treble turd
A couple octives lower, less strings, but still poop.
Oh no, she’s alive. She occasionally posts weird US political shit while living in the UK…
What’s the latest antivax gotcha going round? I’m blissfully out of the loop.
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.
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.
RFK is a fucking moron and continues to flip flop.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/02/rfk-jr-measles-vaccination
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.
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.
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.
Conservative MP Craig Kelly
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.
Measles cases are peaking higher than any time in the last 30 years?
I suppose measles is technically getting them, but I don’t think that’s what they meant
Warned about what
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.
Why are people deleting their vaccinated status?
On Facebook you can put a frame around your profile pic to spread one of the approved messages. Now it’s no longer relevant, the only new people getting the shot will be 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.
That’s what I don’t get though, a good thing is a good thing. It’s like when they pretended the ACA was something else instead of “obamacare” so they’d like it… We weren’t all “Ohhhhh you stuuuuuuupid Republicans, you love the ACA but it’s actually (drumroll) Obamacare in disguise!!” we were just happy more people had access to Healthcare that wasn’t going to bankrupt them.
The dems really should try reverse psychology on these idiots. It would actually work.
Republicans would happily vote for universal healthcare, abolishing ICE, and universal basic income if prominent Dems just publicly denounced those things.
It took me a minute to figure out what you meant there. Becaus3 I didn’t immediately fathom a world where a maga would think we would be anti Vax the moment someone anti Vax turns pro Vax.
Because that is absolutely moronic. Doesn’t make a lick of sense. Wtf are these people on? How do I avoid taking it, ever?
Thank you. I actually understand the fascist mind for this moment in time, at least.
My condolences.
They aren’t. Do not engage with dipshits and their dipshittery.
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.
I went to school with this clown. He was always a peice of shit troublemaker that couldn’t pass a single class if his life depended on it. He tried to fight teachers. Not surprised at all this is how he ended up.
I love how it’s always ‘nasa lies’ with these people, ignoring ancient greece entirely. Also weirdly hand waving the planets we can see with a few pieces of glass…
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
There was a funny one where someone debunked flat earth using the flat earther’s own photograph where you could see the curvature if you zoomed in.
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.
