54-Year-Old Facebook User Wins Nobel Prize For Own Extensive Internet Research Into Dangers Of Covid Vaccine : theonion

[–] [email protected] 76 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I didn't eat this onion, but I put it in my mouth for a minute lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Hahahaha You did better than I did!

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 years ago

[+] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's not really an acronym, just an abbreviation. "Coronavirus disease" is only two words. You could write CoviD I guess, but that looks dumb.

I'd think that it isn't a proper noun and shouldn't be capitalized at all, but maybe that's why they're the professionals and I'm just some guy on the internet.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago

Somehow an attempt to be correct ends up looking like mockery

"I have Covid"

SpongeBob with hands on hips: "I hAvE CoViD"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

It’s one of those things where it has become a word in and of itself because so many people use it that way

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

IRL though, the people who say "do your own research" are actually less likely to do their own research.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

"Do your own research" is just code for "I don't have a valid source and I don't feel like looking for one so you do it."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Damn straight. I was attracted to the ideas of the Skeptic community when I was a teen. And as this all unraveled and better, more informative, and equally entertaining leftists got me hooked - I've learned to patch up these bad behaviors. Now if I want to make a point, I'll link to a source that echoes that point. Now I can still be wrong, but if I am then the person I'm arguing with has a chance to challenge the rhetoric that has convinced me.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

PARODY

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Uncle Darren?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

simply marvelous~!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Is that Dave from Gamesack?

[+] [email protected] -13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[+] [email protected] -40 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Heart problems are a real risk but they only apply to a slice of the population.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago

Heart problems are way, WAY more common with covid than with the vaccine.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Hey, look, it's the guy who won the Nobel prize from the article. Did you only use Facebook for your research, or lemmy too?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

These types of comments give me faith in society! Or at least in Lemmy! Thank you for writing what I was thinking!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

People skills aren’t the only skills you lack, my friend

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yall are all downvoting him as if the science did not come out clearly showing the Johnson and Johnson vaccine was causing heart issues for women above 50. Its OK to be critical of facts. Ignoring them makes you damn near as bad as red hats

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

What are your thoughts on the fact that it is much safer to get the vaccine than to get Covid?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I had the vaccine, the Johnson and Johnson to be precise. Although I got it before we knew these issues and fortunately am not in the at risk demographic. In retrospect I was vaxed, and boosted and still have had covid 3 times. 2 of them were miserable. I think it clearly did fuck all to help me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

That's a popular misconception about the vaccines.

They're to keep the infection at a manageable level, i.e. like a regular miserable virus infection, not to stop you from being infected although they do reduce the risk of that too.

Another misconception: "I'm not in the risk demographic". COVID affected people of all ages, just at different percentages of the population.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 years ago

Eh, the science is not conclusive.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37724969/

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Good thing you are loaded up on de-wormer.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

How many trump gift emails do you get per day?

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