#anti covid vaccine

[animentality]

[mysharona1987]

Yes, it was totally the vaccine.

Not the fact he has, by his own acknowledgment, spent most of his life abusing steroids and smoking cigars. And his family has a history of heart problems.

ffs.

[tomorrowusa]

The US doesn't need a quack and conspiracy nut like RFK Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services at a time like this.

All these articles from reality-based sources were published in the past 48 hours.

America’s first bird flu death reported in Louisiana

Norovirus on the Rise

What you need to know about HMPV as China sees rise in cases

RSV hasn't gone away.

How RSV Spreads

The COVID-19 emergency is over but that doesn't mean COVID-19 has disappeared.

COVID Map Update Reveals US Cases at Christmas

Get whatever vaccinations and boosters you can before January 20th. In the meantime, contact your US senator and express your opposition to putting a science denier like RFK Jr. in charge of America's health.

[quantumfrail]

The amount of spam / bot accounts sharing anti-vax sentiment in the tags is frustrating. I'm blocking them all on sight. All the websites seem like a virus waiting to happen which is almost ironic. Reminder not to click on their links so that your devices aren't infected.

If you want, type the headline into a search engine but don't click on random links from people you don't know or trust.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

[robotmechagirl]

How are they gonna charge me for 3 separate visits when I got it all done in one sitting?!?

I was getting my blood drawn for my HRT appointment and one charge for that

They mentioned I needed to get vaccinated again for this seasons Covid and flu so I stupidly agreed

$257 “OFFICE/OUTPATIENT VISIT, EST…

$17 ROUTINE VENIPUNCTURE

$125 SARSCOV2 1ST DOSE COVID19 VACCINE ADMIN

$453 MODERNA COVID 19 SARSCOV2 VACCINE 50 MCG/0.5 ML IM USE

$257 OFFICE OUTPATIENT VISIT, EST…

$58 IMMUNIZATION ADMIN

$62 FLU VACCINE NO PRESERV 3 & GT

$40 ROUTINE VENUPUNCTURE

Y’all ToT

For clarification I’ve gotten vaxxed for Covid before, it’s just the first time at this facility

The blood was drawn and the shots were immediately given. It was one visit.

I knew there would be a charge to get my vaccines, but I didn’t know it would cost me more than what I paid for my damn car

Cheese and crust, for St. Luigi’s sake why does it cost this flippin’ much??? >~<

If I, for even a moment, knew they were gonna rip me a new asshole with the cost I would have said no.

Not included is the price I paid for HRT and the bloodwork because I’ve paid out of pocket for that before and was expecting that.

[angelart67]

I HAVE A FEELING FAUCI & HIS GROUP OF GOONS, DAYS ARE NUMBERED... 😇🎨

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[magicrainbowkitties]

Btw very random but the fact that people would literally rather have their child they made and supposedly love die of horrific but preventable diseases than them live with autism is so absolutely wild. Surely even if vaccines caused autism (they don't, of fuckin course not), surely it's better to risk a child being autistic BUT ALIVE. Do. Do you not want your child to live? Tell me

[animentality]

[mxmorbidmidnight]

Vaccines save lives. Get vaccinated to protect those in our community who cannot access or safely receive vaccines.

Maintain practices such as wearing a mask when sick. Never shame another person for wearing a mask because covid is “over”

Sick leave should not be a privilege, it is a right. For the welfare of yourself and others you should not have to work sick.

For you it might be a common cold, but for someone like me and many of my dear friends it will take weeks and weeks to recover.

Do not forget the horrors of the pandemic. Do not forget those stuck in their homes due to risk of infection.

[tomorrowusa]

A reminder: Get up to date with your vaccines before January 20th.

In a taste of things to come, Louisiana has apparently forbidden public health workers from promoting vaccines – even flu vaccines.

A group of high-level managers at the Louisiana Department of Health walked into a Nov. 14 meeting in Baton Rouge expecting to talk about outreach and community events. Instead, they were told by an assistant secretary in the department and another official that department leadership had a new policy: Advertising or otherwise promoting the COVID, influenza or mpox vaccines, an established practice there — and at most other public health entities in the U.S. — must stop. NPR has confirmed the policy was discussed at this meeting, and at two other meetings held within the department's Office of Public Health, on Oct. 3 and Nov. 21, through interviews with four employees at the Department of Health, which employs more than 6,500 people and is the state's largest agency.

According to the employees, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they fear losing their jobs or other forms of retaliation, the policy would be implemented quietly and would not be put in writing. Staffers were also told that it applies to every aspect of the health department's work: Employees could not send out press releases, give interviews, hold vaccine events, give presentations or create social media posts encouraging the public to get the vaccines. They also could not put up signs at the department's clinics that COVID, flu or mpox vaccines were available on site. The new policy in Louisiana was implemented as some politicians have promoted false information about vaccines and as President-elect Donald Trump seeks to have anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr lead the U.S.

While they are not outlawing vaccines outright, the Louisiana GOP state government doesn't want citizens of the state to know that vaccines are available.

As with other states, people are still dying of COVID-19 in Louisiana. Flu is also taking its toll.

Last year, 652 people in Louisiana died of COVID, including five children. Louisiana currently is tied with DC for the highest rate of flu in the U.S. In 2022 alone, flu killed 586 people in Louisiana.

If RFK Jr. is confirmed as HHS secretary, we can see practices like this becoming federalized.

"It's reckless," said Lawrence Gostin, a professor of global health law at Georgetown University. "I think it's a sign of what is about to happen under the second Trump administration." If U.S. senators confirm Kennedy to run HHS, he said, "we're going to see the fomenting of public distrust of vaccines so we lose precious herd immunity, and we're going to see major outbreaks of disease that are fully preventable over the next four years."

[alanshemper]

9 April 2024

There are few groups so reviled in liberal circles as the anti-vaxxers. Seen as embarrassingly anti-science and anti-social to boot, the popular anti-vaxxer archetype is a shrill, loudly wrong grifter straight out of YouTube Medical School. They are not only uninformed, but dangerous. And their specific brand of ignorance invites a mocking condescension from those of us who self-identify as “educated” and “pro-science.”

There’s one big problem with liberal media outlets, individuals and institutions expressing this disdain today: they have, themselves, adopted many foundational beliefs of the anti-vax movement without even realizing it. While they express continued appreciation for vaccines, their underlying ideas about immune systems, illness, herd immunity, and the social value of public health have all aligned with anti-vaxxer ideology. I’ll unpack each of these foundational beliefs individually, but first I’d like to address why this has happened.

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Herd immunity would mean long-term, durable protection from infection, like we have for viruses like measles, mumps, and rubella. This society-wide protection would then enable vulnerable people to rejoin society without constant risk of infection. But since reopening, COVID has circulated year-round at high levels and the population is continually getting reinfected. Both the Republican and Democratic strategies to achieve herd immunity were doomed from the start. There are a variety of biological reasons for this.

[covid-safer-hotties]

A literature review on vaccine skepticism: An intriguing intersection of history and virology.

Abstract

Global pandemics can be tackled by two means: lockdowns and vaccinations. As vaccination has a low impact on economic outcomes and better acceptance by people, it is the preferred method by most governments as a medium- to long-term solution. Vaccines have played a significant role in reducing the global burden of infectious diseases. They are designed to teach the immune system how to fight a particular infection before it causes a disease in subsequent exposures by creating a memory. Although vaccines effectiveness is well known, anti-vaccination movements pose significant challenges, even in high-income settings, leading to outbreaks of life-threatening infectious diseases. Hesitancy to take vaccines is not new and began with the first vaccination of smallpox. At that time, the problem was solved by a regulatory obligation to take vaccines, declared in England and Wales in 1853, which eventually led to its eradication in 1980. Different studies show that there is a decline in awareness of vaccines, hesitancy to take them, and concerns and trust issues regarding healthcare professionals. These problems have been rising over the past few decades for several reasons, notably, because of misinformation spread by social media. Therefore, the objective of this review is to provide a brief overview about vaccine hesitancy and attributable factors, illustrate the different types of vaccines, show the major challenges of vaccine development, and illustrate the pros and cons of each type.