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Towlie

(5,324 posts)
Sun Oct 11, 2020, 04:21 PM Oct 2020

Taking a vaccine to cure COVID-19 is like wearing a seat belt to heal injuries from a car accident.

Confused Eric Trump Says Dad Is Getting Cured by His Own ‘Vaccine’

He went on to say that the following day, he spoke with his father multiple times and “the guy sounded 100 percent,” crediting the medications and therapeutics the president took during his hospital stay.

Except, according to Trump, his dad was given a vaccine.

“It goes to speak how good some of these vaccines that are being created are and what my father's done on the vaccine front no one could have done,” Trump boasted. “My father literally started day one creating this vaccine, he worked to push this vaccine and now my father just took it and you see how well he got over it.”

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This isn’t the first time that Eric Trump has falsely asserted that the president took a “vaccine” during his hospital stay. (This is, of course, not how vaccines work—patients don’t take vaccines after they’ve been infected with a disease.)
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Taking a vaccine to cure COVID-19 is like wearing a seat belt to heal injuries from a car accident. (Original Post) Towlie Oct 2020 OP
It's like taking birth control pills after you're pregnant NickB79 Oct 2020 #1
A lot of people get this one confused... Wounded Bear Oct 2020 #2
Yup. Hugin Oct 2020 #3

Wounded Bear

(58,648 posts)
2. A lot of people get this one confused...
Sun Oct 11, 2020, 05:21 PM
Oct 2020

I blame Hollywood, they always seem to get it wrong in the movies or TV shows involving disease.

Vaccines and therapeutic medicines are not the same thing at all.

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