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Ultrasound can push vaccines into the body without needles (www.newscientist.com)
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Vaccines can be delivered through the skin using ultrasound. This method doesn’t damage the skin and eliminates the need for painful needles. To create a needle-free vaccine, Darcy Dunn-Lawless at the University of Oxford and his colleagues mixed vaccine molecules with tiny, cup-shaped proteins. They then applied liquid mixture to the skin of mice and exposed it to ultrasound – like that used for sonograms – for about a minute and a half.

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[–] 166 points 2 years ago (33 children)

While this is awesome, I can already imagine anti-vaxxers are now deathly afraid of ultrasounds lol

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    Brace yourselves! Vaccination with sound conspiracies coming in!

    “The IRS called, they vaccinated me trough my phone in my ear!!?”

    “Mass vaccinations trough radio!!?”

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    As much as I hate fucking mobile alerts, they already thought the last test was some magical bullshit.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Ultrasound vaccines and 5G!

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    They were already terrified of phone signals.

    Only fast ones though. Slower ones can't penetrate the skin.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Hilariously enough, it's closer to the other way 'round. Higher frequencies means more bandwidth but they can be blocked easier. Lower frequencies can go farther before being attenuated too much.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    One of my friend's friends has a PhD in psychology, but she thinks that nuclear radiation has healing properties and told me to move out of NYC because there was too much 5G everywhere. She still uses a smartphone though, just on a selfie stick on speakerphone 🤣 She also told me that she was afraid of the radio in her car because of the radio waves.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    She thinks that nuclear radiation has healing properties

    In a way she’s actually not wrong. That’s what radiotherapy is. Focused nuclear radiation to heal cancer.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    She doesn't have cancer though, she's perfectly healthy and is an "alternative medicine practitioner". She said she sleeps with a piece of thorium under her pillow.

    Regardless of it being used for cancer treatment, nuclear radiation isn't good for the body in any way. Various forms of radiation (not just nuclear) are harmful, like getting too much sun.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    she sleeps with a piece of thorium under her pillow.

    Yikes!

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I'm convinced that she's just nuts. My friend, who is her friend (how I met this woman), told me that the woman has started "Urine Therapy" and I just said "Jesus fucking Christ... I... I just have nothing to say" because I didn't wanna get into a debate with him about it.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Idk, anti vaxxers aren't afraid of needles/syringes as far as I understand. They don't want that kind of substance to be put inside their body, regardless of the method of administration

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    It's too bad we can't put vaccines in cum. We'd either have nearly 100% vaccine rates or the antivaxxers would quickly die out.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    How bout tweaking vasectomies

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    hey babe, let's rawdog, i jizz pfizer

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I mean, yes, but a lot of them also think it's a conspiracy where world leaders are trying to vaccinate everyone because ??? Those types will start avoiding ultrasound to not get tricked into getting vaccinated.

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