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applegrove

(133,103 posts)
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 12:13 AM Aug 2025

To the vaccine hesitant people in your life:

Let’s talk about vaccines. THEY WORK. Cases of cervical cancer are dropping in many parts of the world where there is access to the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. HPV is blamed for causing most cervical cancer cases.

🧾 health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlin...

TizzyWoman (@tizzywoman.bsky.social) 2025-08-14T18:31:24.354Z
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To the vaccine hesitant people in your life: (Original Post) applegrove Aug 2025 OP
99.3% of the people who are anti-vaccine now Eliot Rosewater Aug 2025 #1
Someone posted that Mrna vaccines are being developed to prevent cancer MadameButterfly Aug 2025 #6
Post removed Post removed Aug 2025 #9
Post removed Post removed Aug 2025 #10
I got my flu shot yesterday BidenRocks Aug 2025 #2
For those of us on Medicare, markodochartaigh Aug 2025 #3
Wow. They're already out? C Moon Aug 2025 #4
I got a message from CVS BidenRocks Aug 2025 #7
Step one to a purified race... BurnDoubt Aug 2025 #5
I recall DU2's heated discussions about Gardisil Orrex Aug 2025 #8
Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2025 #11
The fact we EXTERMINATED smallpox with a vaccine isn't enough? NickB79 Aug 2025 #12

Eliot Rosewater

(34,296 posts)
1. 99.3% of the people who are anti-vaccine now
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 12:19 AM
Aug 2025

Are so because of something t the stupid stupidest piece of shit on earth said.

Soon it’s going to be all academic since RFK Jr will eliminate all vaccines and before he does that he’ll make it very difficult to get one.

Millions will die

MadameButterfly

(4,157 posts)
6. Someone posted that Mrna vaccines are being developed to prevent cancer
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 03:31 AM
Aug 2025

Man, it will be hard to prove that RFKJr. is responsible for future cancer deaths, but that is what we are facing.
It was such a miracle that MRna was waiting in the wings when Covid hit, imagine if cancer were a thing of the past.

Response to MadameButterfly (Reply #6)

Response to MadameButterfly (Reply #6)

markodochartaigh

(5,545 posts)
3. For those of us on Medicare,
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 02:07 AM
Aug 2025

some vaccines are covered by Part B, and some by Part D. It certainly seems like a good idea to ask your doctor what vaccines are recommended, and to get them as soon as possible.

BidenRocks

(3,496 posts)
7. I got a message from CVS
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 04:36 AM
Aug 2025

They said it's time.
Retired and even have the shingles shot.
Now we wait for the next covid shot.

BurnDoubt

(1,908 posts)
5. Step one to a purified race...
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 03:22 AM
Aug 2025

Eugenics.
Only the Strong survive!
The Old is New again!
AI will lead the way!

Orrex

(67,393 posts)
8. I recall DU2's heated discussions about Gardisil
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 07:24 AM
Aug 2025

The passionate, ill-informed antivax rhetoric was exactly the same as what we see now in opposition to covid boosters and to mRNA vaccines in general.

Antivax foolishness crosses party lines.

Response to Orrex (Reply #8)

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