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New evidence confirms COVID-19 vaccines are overwhelmingly safe::More than 38 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in Ontario as of Oct. 8, with 23,002 reports of adverse reactions, an incidence of 0.06 per cent, Public Health Ontario says

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[–] [email protected] 288 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also, old evidence confirms it.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I guess whatever it takes to convince the skeptics. Though I figure nothing will convince them once they've made up their mind.

[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I don't like calling them "skeptics," because what they really are is super-gullible with regards to conspiracy theories.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Science deniers" is a better description.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Step 1. Ask what someone thinks about vaccinations Step 2. Ask them what they think about evolution Step 3. Ask about climate change Step 4. Ask about what church they go to

You will learn so much of this overlaps. So much.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cannot use logic to convince someone whose argument isn't logical in the first place

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've always preferred it phrased as "You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into," but same energy.

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[–] [email protected] 161 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Okay, if you say so, because I died six months after getting the first one like they said I would. Now I'm a magnetic 5G zombie.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What brand of vaccine did you get? I definitely get the 5G orders from George Soros and such (pretty standard stuff), and I was already dead inside before the jab, but I didn’t get any magnetism.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I got whichever one is most convenient to me winning the discussion about how vaccines are bad and give you 100 autisms.

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was a 50/50 split in the US Senate when the vaccine came out. Every member of that group was vaccinated. They were the first members of the population to be vaccinated. If any of the ancient senators had died, the balance of power would have shifted in a huge way.

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Amazing what all the efficacy and safety studies said before is still true. It was true before, but now it's also true.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Seriously, I don't know why this is news.

Wait, yes I do, half the population is stupid.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The sound you're hearing is goalposts being shuffled around.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Sometimes the goalposts are moved and merged with goalposts from other conspiracy theories.

When 5g wasn't the end of humanity it became the trigger for a zombie virus....hidden in the vaccine!

Wonder what third thing will become the new first domino to knock over the 5g and vaccine dominoes.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago

You mean ALL the republicans were lying this whole time? I am shocked! SHOCKED I say.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Guys the reason this study is important is because covid vaccines used revolutionary technology, they were the first to use mRNA based protein. If you remember we sequenced its genome within 40 days the making the vaccine was considerably easy. This is the main reason it took only 2 years for the vaccine to be made compared to years of development for other vaccines.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (7 children)

It also means that, with this new vaccine technology, we can develop vaccines faster and faster

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (19 children)

We always knew/suspected this. But the ones that do the fearmongering around vaccines will not be interested in facts...

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Where’s that guy that turned into a Newt?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

He got better.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know about you guys but I absolutely love the $5000 that is deposited onto my microchip every month! Helps so much with bills! Thanks Obama!

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What a surprise! who could have seen this coming!

I can almost hear all the scientists groan.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (6 children)

What's the point of this? The people who already believe the vaccine is safe already know it. Those that don't believe it's safe aren't gonna read this OR the report. They'll claim it's some sort of propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's important simply to do just for the benefit of science going forward. We need to look at the long term effects of medicines. Usually we do that prior to release. It also protects you from the propoganda. Someone may throw out crazy statistics at you but you'll have this study in your back pocket so you can be like "yeah it's crazy" and dismiss don't debate.

And try not to get too downtrodden with humanity. Not everyone is a too far gone. Some are just a little lost.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Misinformation works though. Antivaxer are rentlenless and they are always releasing studies to prove their lies. Combine that with social media algorithms that love controversy and this shit gets deadly.

To put it in perspective, the USA could easily have more people die of covid this year than fentanyl ODs but everyone is acting like the battle is over.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Are Republicans still waiting for people who got the initial vaccine to drop dead overnight? lol.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Genuinely impressive how a vaccine made under the conditions and time constraints COVID faced is so effective.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (5 children)

That's because most of the groundwork in developing mrna vaccines had already been done for years and years. This wasn't "how do we invent a vaccine for covid?", this was "how do we adapt this proven, well-understood vaccine tech so that it works for covid just like it does for the ebola virus that we originally developed it for?"

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Totally not true, there’s …. Stuff. Dammit, the only thing I came up with to annoy the person giving me the shot was a one liner about improved 5G reception. And I used it twice: so cringey. Where are all the conspiracy nuts when you need them?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Anyone know where I can access the report mentioned? It doesn't seem to be linked anywhere in the article, nor cited by a searchable name...

Nvm, found it on the website for Public Health Ontario

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If this is trying to convince skeptics, it'll do nothing. They'll go back to Nancy on Facebook and exclaim how they're putting 5G crystal-infused microchips into your body to turn you into a sky person. Literally nothing will convince the antivax.

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