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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    nutcutlet said:
     just concerned that nobody was questioning

    I would stick with the science
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    To address a single issue currently circulating the twatter sphere: The vaccine gives you COVID.

    This is totally, 100% impossible. None of the vaccines contain any virus.

    Sometimes I wonder why people like me and 100's of colleagues have spent so much time disseminating the information, when mindless idiots still persist in talking about microchips.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    A few weeks ago my hairdresser said "the Covid jab gave you cancer".
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Ergates said:
    It feels like covid never happened, yet I read that infection rates in Devon are going through the roof.
    Probably stands to reason,  we’ve had people from every area of the country visiting here through the summer, and still are apparently.
     At the beginning of the first wave we had no cases but as they stopped the restrictions everybody came down and COVID took off.  It’s been the same ever since. 

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    nutcutlet said:
    , you're more likely to get Covid after the jab'





    I would agree with that because people who are not up to speed with the benefits of vaccines, and have listened to the experts in Twatter and ArseBook,  would have had their vaccine,  gone out clubbing or pubbing with the thought that they are protected completely.  So yes,  I agree, they probably are more likely get COVID after the vaccine.
    ’Ive had my vaccine, I’m invincible now! 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    More likely to get Covid, but much less likely to die from it, or suffer long lasting and severe side effects from the disease. Like a lot of things, one tends to remember the bad stuff, and forget the good. For every person posting about a friend, or a friend of a friend, that supposedly had a bad reaction to the vaccine, do they provide any information to balance that, ie how many friends had the vaccine, caught covid and were able to dismiss it as no more than a cold? 

    The figures and the science to interpret them are what matters. Only this week I was told by a very reliable source of a relatively young man ( under 65) who didn’t think he needed the vaccine, and unfortunately died of covid. Survived long enough to say how much he regretted not having had the jabs. It’s still happening.

    I’m old enough to remember class mates and work colleagues who were disabled by polio. I have a friend whose mother was left deaf after contracting measles, and another whose brother was left severely damaged after his pregnant mother contracted Rubella.
    We have been so well cushioned by previous immunisation programmes that many have become complacent.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I've always found the term 'herd immunity' slightly offensive when used by antivax bludgers. The assumption being that the immunised are like  sheep, mindlessly poisoning their bodies and those of their offspring while their own children thrive. If they are unfortunate enough to catch anything, a dab of arnica will surely sort it out. 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited October 2022
    B3 said:
    I've always found the term 'herd immunity' slightly offensive

    Herd immunity isn't a thing with Covid as the virus keeps mutating.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    That doesn't stop the AVs banging on about it. They depend on it to protect their children from childhood diseases that should be a thing of the past but are returning 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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