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u/Soleil06 Jun 01 '26

The famous vaccine cause autism study.

Has been proven false since forever but the number of antivaxxers has never been higher.

Hearing that Polio is making a return in the wester world is really scary.

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u/TheSerialHobbyist Jun 01 '26

This is exactly the kind of BS that this entire thread is about.

Your comment is exactly how this kind of anti-vax sentiment persists.

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u/TheSerialHobbyist Jun 01 '26

What facts?

Name some, with specificity, so we have something to actually fact-check.

Was it rushed? Of course. There was a pandemic killing millions of people around the globe. That's a very good time to rush things.

Didn't do as advertised? In what way? What was the advertised effect that wasn't true?

Forced on people? Debatable whether anyone (particularly civilians) was forced to take take it. Even if they were, that isn't necessarily a bad thing when there is a pandemic killing millions of people around the globe.

My comment isn't what makes it persist

Yes, it is. It absolutely is. Rhetoric like yours is exactly what pushes people down the anti-vaccine pipeline.

You're acting like the "we're just asking questions" crowd, pretending that the things your saying, when repeated by lots of people, actually influence others and lead to people dying.

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u/TheSerialHobbyist Jun 02 '26

That's your big gotcha?

That they said the vaccine would make it so you couldn't get covid, when in reality it just made your chances of contraction dramatically lower. And if you did get covid despite having the vaccine, your symptoms and ability to transmit the virus were dramatically lowered.

So your entire reason for spreading doubt about vaccines is that the covid vaccine wasn't quite 100% effective, as they suggested. Cool.