• atp2112@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    One of the worst parts is that there are many valid reasons to criticize Bill Gates with regards to the COVID vaccine (mainly as it pertains to his intellectual property crusade leading to a few companies getting to dictate the rollout and screwing over the Global South in the process), but it’s all drowned out by these idiots screaming about microchips.

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      2 years ago

      Honestly it seems a lot of these “conspiracy theories” are just bullshit stories spoon fed to stupid people to keep them chasing their own tails and distract from the real issues.

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      That’s because all of that is too complicated for these simpletons to understand. They think “intellectual property” is a smart guy’s personal belongings.

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      Poor Dolly Parton.

      She help fund a vaccine and no one is banging on about her vaccine causing you to get a large blonde hairdo (we all know it’s a wig), and large breasts.

      There is no democracy in the targeting of people who’ve helped fund development. I think they’ve missed a trick.

      Think I’ve just had an idea about an article taking the piss out of anti -vaxers.

      • 👽🍻👽@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        This is the correct perspective. As it turns out, a huge amount of people that believe Bill Gates is injecting 5G chips into people absolutely don’t vote. If you recall, the first amendment nuts in the loser convoys and a bunch of the J6 defendants weren’t even registered to vote and yet they screeched election interference. For an election they didn’t even bother to vote in.

        2020 was one of the highest blue voter turnouts in national history making record first time voters in their 30s and 40s.

        So yes, it should be pointed out that everyday people turning out to vote against this brain rot is just as important whether or not magats and human vegetables are voting too.

  • mineapple@feddit.de
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    2 years ago

    In fact, there are vaccines against some cancer types. There’s a virus, which is responsible for almost all womb cancer cases. Here in Germany, the vaccine is free, if you’re under 20 iirc.

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    2 years ago

    it’s not that they are stupid, they are attention hungry losers that will believe manufactured drivel like this because it makes them feel special, because they have “knowledge” that unenlightened masses don’t, and they prefer it over reality

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    I thought we were all supposed to drop dead in 2 years, the cookers were all banging on about that at one point when they weren’t punching horses and thinking the government used laser weapons on them and not that they got sunburnt from spending the day in the sun “protesting”

  • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    The cleaning lady at my building thinks she’s smarter and knows better than doctors, teachers, scientists, professors and researchers.

    How did we get to this point where people can’t accept that they don’t know everything, and narcissism has reached cleaning ladies who now think they’re geniuses?

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      It’s fascinating. These people can easily accept that they are physically worse then celebrity sports people. They can admit to running slower than Usain Bolt, but they can’t admit to themselves that they are dumber than someone who has studied in their field for years and years?

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        2 years ago

        We had those kind of people forever, it’s just now thanks to social media that they can feed of each other’s paranoia.

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          Agreed. Even back in the days of old, each village had their idiot. Now all the idiots can connect and further their idiocy whenever they like.

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    2 years ago

    People really like to throw their opinions at everyone else even if they don’t understand anything on the subject. I remember seeing a post on Facebook saying something along the lines of:

    a virus that dies with soap and water and they haven’t found a cure yet?

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      There are some experimental cures that do seem to work at least in rats. But yeah there’s no vaccine you just have to get sick and then get the cure and hope it works.

      And also be a rat.

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      2 years ago

      Once destroyed definitely… But couldn’t a vaccine prevent it from getting to that point?

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            It’s more like saying “I miiiiiight be able to cure cancer, that’s a bit tough and would require a lot of luck… I definitely can’t cure death though.”

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          Well, some vaccines are therapeutic in nature, where it’s beneficial to take it while you have symptoms. Some vaccines are only helpful before you get a symptom, for example rabies.

          I guess the above made it sound like there definitely can’t be a therapeutic vaccine. But unclear about a preventative vaccine.

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            Their point is AIDS is the syndrome you get after it is too late and your immune system no longer works. The vaccine would be for Human Immunodeficiency Virus

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      Problem being, while they are busy dying, they are quite overworking a bunch of caregivers and using hospital resources, while additionally further infecting other people before then. So it’s not just the facing of the consequences of their own selfish decision.

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        2 years ago

        That and then it requires more resources to actively fight stupid disinformation, resources that could be used to help people

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    2 years ago

    I always need to watch a video about the ISS, or NASA in general, after seeing photos like this.

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      I dunno. Watching the wrong kind of videos is how you end up unironically believing things like this.

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      Also, cancer isn’t one disease but a whole class of diseases. And we actually do have vaccines that prevent certain forms of cancer, like the HPV vaccine.

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          Ma’am, pregnancy is still a consequence of sex as you obviously should know after having 5 kids.

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            2 years ago

            if she grew up with a certain kind of religious education, it’s possible she still might not have drawn that particular connection

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        There is also a lung cancer vaccine made in Cuba, called CimaVax (I think).

        There’s some hurdles to getting it though, depending on where you are.

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      2 years ago

      Also, why wouldn’t they use a cancer vaccine for a “mind control” or “tracking chip”.

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        I always found the tracking chip conspiracy stuff to be particularly funny. Unfortunately, I never personally met any whackos that believed it.

        The best method for very accurately tracking them was the thing they likely used to post about the COVID vaccine tracking you.

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      Also, the amount of computational power that was made available for COVID research was recorded breaking.

      If you were on Folding@home at that time, they couldn’t get enough WU out fast enough for a while. Gamers really showed up and helped.

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        Yeah, it helps when you have a mind-boggling amount of computers across the world crunching your data.