• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    1 month ago

    I cannot decide if the right are really that stupid or if this is just satire.

  • ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip
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    1 month ago

    well obviously we should make this groundbreaking new approach available to anyone who wants it alongside traditional vaccines.

    then we can just require proof of vaccination or this new alternative - let’s call it “inoculation” for now - for school attendance.

  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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    1 month ago

    The oral polio vaccine actually did that. It used an attenuated virus that didn’t just confer immunity on the recipient; the mild infection from that weakened virus was (somewhat) transmissible to the community at large. Everyone who was directly vaccinated via OPV had a small but significant chance of infecting and thus immunizing the people around them.

    Of course, there was also the problem that the attenuated vaccine occasionally mutated, and about 25 years ago, we got to the point that the vaccine was actually causing more cases of paralytic poliomyelitis than the almost entirely eradicated wild variants…

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    1 month ago

    This is what happens when you break words by altering their definitions. We recently broke the word vaccine, and already we have people who don’t know that a weakened virus is a vaccine.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    This is why I see the political spectrum as just a circle … there is no far right or far left

    There is a center at the top and if you move to the right or left, you end up at the left side of the circle or right side of the circle … if you politics go any further, the start traveling inward and meet at the bottom … the far right is no different than the far left.

    So our job is to have this never ending circus balancing act of standing on this circle … it is constant work to keep it all balanced because if we drift to one end, we are liable to drift too far and end up at the bottom.