COVID-19 Pandemic

951 readers

13 users here now

Any news or discussion around the pandemic. Anti-vaccination posts and comments will be removed, as well as personal attacks.

Relevant:

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

When I explained how the vaccine works to an antivaxxer, they asked about the thousands of people that died right after taking the vaccine. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

84 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Can you please give me a good response?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

go to /r/nursing and sort by top of all time and just read the posts and the respective top comments, most of it is about covid patients and how absolutely awful the situation is

most people think that getting covid is a black and white case of either dying with a chance of around 2 % or surviving and being perfectly fine, when in reality you might get permanent lung damage, making a walk from your bed to the kitchen seem like running a maraphon

or get brain damage from hypoxia, so that you get what's called brain fog, meaning that your consciousness will be clouded for an unknown time

or any number of yet undescovered side effects

tldr iirc there is a small chance to get sick from a vaccine, but there is an exponentially higher change to get sick without a vaccine and suffer much worse consequences

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Covid vaccination is different from other vaccinations as being vaccinated doesn't mean that you have become immune to covid, or that these "side effects" won't happen. Thousands of double vaccinated people have already died from covid.

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

that's how all of vaccines work: you can still get sick and suffer side effects even if you're vaccined, but the chances are significantly reduced, which is the whole point

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

The covid vaccines actually increase the chances of getting covid in certain populations. Check last two columns of Table 2 on page 13 of 41st weekly review of covid vaccination for instance. Not how vaccines are expected to work.

Compare this with say polio vaccine which reduces chances of catching to less than 0.1%.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Lmao that's how all vaccines work. Don't spread misinformation.