This guy in my city had anti vaxx banners and signs. One said "50k+ Canadians suffered side effects from the COVID vaccine!"

So I looked up how many people were vaccinated in Canada, and 50k was below 1% of the people vaccinated. I pointed out to the guy that this means the vaccine had a success rate without side effects of 99% and how incredible that is. Dude got pissed at me and started yelling that I was a shill.

I guess he didn't like math and common sense

So there are actually levels to antivaxxers. The granola nuts that think putting anything into your body is a sin are actually the extreme minority or antivaxxers these days.

The average antivaxxer is someone who has extremely little faith in both big pharma and the government as a whole. They usually come from a community that has been screwed over by both. In the US, this translates to older first generation immigrants, the African American community, and low income white people in areas that were hit hard by the opoid crisis.

A lot of these people are cool with the traditional flu vaccine, because it's been around forever. The covid vaccines on the other hand were met with skepticism, on account of it being "untested". In their eyes FDA testing and positive media coverage don't mean anything, because in their eyes both groups have lied to their faces in the past.

A lot of the antivaxxer discourse during covid frustrated me. While there were people who were legitimately just idiots, there were a lot of communities who had fears rooted in genuine trauma and frustration. Calling them a bunch of idiotic death cultists and then celebrating on social media when one of them died just resulted in those communities distrusting the system further.

Safe And Effective*

*While supply last. Subject to the oversight of the FDA, which could become politicized upon the inauguration of a new administration. ahem RFK Jr. ahem (Better hope he doesn't add bleach to vaccines)

You just need 1 person you know working in a morgue. That’s enough to convince you that the last pandemic was really bad.

At this stage, the people who still need to hear this are the people we'd like to get rid of, so that problem is probably going to solve itself

Sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of being dead because I took the COVID vaccine.

Just a reminder: Animal Agriculture is the leading cause of Zoonoses (PDF: The infectious disease trap of animal agriculture)

Eat a plant based diet to limit pandemics!

The worst thing about it is that this kind of garbage is leaking out of the United States. US citizens are weird af and poorly educated.

Well at least they can be. We just have to raise the trust in actual clinical trials more. Its perfectly reasonable to be skeptical and cautious until there is actual proof that something is safe. And if the studies are done well, they sadly take longer than a pandemic takes to spread. But better late than never for sure.

A) of fucking course

B) always important to say

Got a friend who's anti vax because they said a couple of their friends didn't get vaccinated and were fine, those who did get it suffered from covid and got very sick.

Nuh uh, I get my immunization naturally by rolling around in shit and eating out of date food. Gotta not get any of that microplastic and microtrackers the Rockefeller's put in the "vaccines". FaceBook is my bible!

So, get all your birds vaccinated, kids.

Don't worry, RFK Jr will ban them.

THAT IS TRUE!!!