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I decided to "do my own research" about the vaccine and I found this article debunking a lot of the myths. I thought it might be good to share so people can show it to others who are hesitating about getting a vaccine.
https://www.bu.edu/articles/2021/myths-vs-facts-covid-19-vaccine/
Among the many reasons COVID-19 vaccination rates in the United States peaked earlier than experts hopedthen, rather than crescendoing into the summer months, began trending downwardare myths that took hold among the unvaccinated and solidified as their reasons not to get the shots. The vaccine will make women sterile; the vaccines are too new; the shots have a microchip in them; the vaccine itself will give me COVID; Im immune because I had COVID; breakthrough cases prove vaccines are useless.
There are more. And none of them are true.
I think my favorite one is the microchip. Hello? Do you have a phone? What about a social security number? You're able to be tracked. Nobody needs to put a microchip in you.
Rhiannon12866
(205,301 posts)In case they want to have children someday.
lamp_shade
(14,831 posts)Last edited Sat Aug 14, 2021, 05:44 AM - Edit history (1)
But it did not change her mind...
https://www.factcheck.org/2021/02/scicheck-no-evidence-vaccines-impact-fertility/
Rhiannon12866
(205,301 posts)Who ever came up with this nonsense and why does anyone believe it?? And a friend of this guy said he wasn't getting the vaccine because he refused "to be a guinea pig." All of our lives we've gotten vaccines. I even remember getting a couple of them right in school, but I was a kid so I can't say what they were. But we know that they prevent disease. What's so different about this one? Don't kids have to get vaccines before they can attend school? A few years back, a friend of mine returned to college and she had to get the MMR vaccine before she was allowed to attend classes. This is not a new idea.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)On one hand its a bit funny to point out how ridiculously moronic this kind of shit is. On the other you have someone who murdered their children over it. The worst and most destructive pandemic we are facing is the propagation of ignorant alternative realities.
lamp_shade
(14,831 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,301 posts)The subject originally came up when I was able to get vaccinated and I was so grateful and relieved that I told people. And this gentleman in his 80s said he wasn't getting vaccinated since his daughter - who is a nurse! - isn't getting the vaccine and he gets his medical advice from her.
lamp_shade
(14,831 posts)I'm not really counting on it. The hard-liners will find another excuse... like "they're all liars".
Rhiannon12866
(205,301 posts)As suspicious. Even though that's happened countless times over the years.
Cinnamonspice
(163 posts)Cinnamonspice
(163 posts)They volunteered for trials. Not to mention they've been studying this for almost twenty years. They didn't just come out with the vaccine. It was already being studied.
Rhiannon12866
(205,301 posts)It's not like they came up with these vaccines overnight, they've been studied for years - since both the AIDS and the SARS crisis. And yes, there were also trials before offering the current vaccines to the public. *sigh*