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Showing posts with label Y'all Qaeda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Y'all Qaeda. Show all posts

Friday, May 07, 2021

Today's Fantasy

Posted on Reddit (r/parlerwatch)


"...shed vaccine particles..."

There seems to be nothing these idiots won't latch onto.

Once it became an acceptable thing to dismiss everything "from out there" (ie: the Librul-dominated universe of fake news and egghead elites - anywhere outside the confines of the fantasy-based multi-cult), something had to fill the vacuum and provide "information" for the rubes.

And of course, there's never a shortage of scamsters looking to make bank on people who just wanna feel comforted in a big scary world.

The night is dark and filled with terrors.
👻 👺 ☠️ 👽

There's an army of kids who are soon to be headed off to college, who will be able to build rewarding Nobel-level careers on the study of the weird shit that's going on now in this unbelievable rat's nest of conspiracy, paranoia, and groupthink.

Reuters:

Claims that COVID-19 vaccines have been designed so that recipients can transmit their inoculations have revealed misunderstandings of how these vaccines work. Vaccines against the novel coronavirus are not infectious and cannot be passed from person to person.

The claim was initially made in a Facebook post comprising several screenshots from webpages that discuss the potential of future “self-spreading vaccines”. In the post’s caption, the user writes: “It’s not shedding, it’s intentional transmission.” (here)

Comments left underneath the post reveal a further misconception: “Help me understand does it mean donated blood from vaxxed/jabbed people will transmit the spike protein and consequently the patient gets to exhibit all the auto response immune system symptoms?” one user asks.

“Yep. They transmit it through their pores, saliva, faeces, blood etc. They are time bombs,” another replies.

“Shedding” is a term that was frequently used in the early days of the pandemic to describe people transmitting or emitting coronavirus particles. However, experts have told Reuters that people cannot “shed” COVID-19 vaccines. This topic has been addressed (here) and (here).

Meanwhile, the suggestion that COVID-19 vaccines have been designed for “intentional transmission” is also false.

While the possibility of researchers creating self-disseminating vaccines has been discussed in scientific literature (here , here , here) , this is not something that has been rolled out in humans. It would involve genetically engineering a vaccine so immunity spreads through an animal population like a disease, rather than the disease itself spreading. Scientists note the potential risks associated with this (here).

Transmission would also require the vaccine to be live – and to be able to replicate and infect its host. This is not possible. None of the COVID-19 vaccines have this capability.

The mRNA shots developed by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna “contain only instructions for making spike protein and are incapable of generating virus particles, so nothing can be shed”, said Dr Daniel Kuritzkes, chief of the infectious diseases division at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, one of the world’s top teaching hospitals and part of Harvard Medical School, in a statement emailed to Reuters.

Likewise, the Johnson & Johnson (also referred to as Janssen) vaccine “is based on a replication-defective adenovirus, which means the adenovirus is incapable of reproducing”, he added. The Oxford/AstraZeneca jab uses the same mechanism (here).

Kuritzkes also pointed out that the mRNA vaccines are degraded within 24 to 48 hours. As explained (here), that means they disappear from recipients’ bodies within a day or two. Similarly, the J&J vaccine “gets taken up into cells where it is injected, makes spike protein, and is degraded. It cannot disseminate to other tissues or be shed”, Kuritzkes said.

VERDICT

False. COVID-19 vaccines are not infectious, and they cannot spread between people. The mRNA vaccines authorised for emergency use do not use a live virus, while the Johnson & Johnson and Oxford/AstraZeneca jabs use a harmless adenovirus that has been modified to prevent replication.


PolitiFact:
  • Medical experts and the CDC said it’s not biologically possible for the COVID-19 vaccine to “shed” or affect unvaccinated people, despite what anti-vaccine activists claim.
  • The misinformation about “vaccine shedding” has had a real-world impact. One Miami private school recently instructed immunized teachers to stay away from students, citing the baseless claim that unvaccinated people can experience menstrual irregularities and other reproductive harm simply from interacting with vaccinated people.
  • There is no evidence that the COVID-19 vaccines cause fertility or menstruation problems in people who get them, let alone in their close contacts, experts said.
Hard to imagine why we should have to spend any time on this shit, but here we are.

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Today In Y'all Qaeda Land

Here's a pretty good look at the latest Wingnut Clusterfuck going on in Oregon, from Al Jazeera:



hat tip = FB friend DR

Yes, it's Al Jazeera.  And yes, it's biased.  And yes, we have to get used to the fact that nobody's really doing good journalism anymore, so we have to be able to sort thru the shit on our own.

And here's a related bit from Raw Story:
The Bundys have voiced support for a variety of right-wing fringe ideas, particularly the “posse comitatus” notion that no legitimate governments exist above the county level, and they believe in no higher law authority than the county sheriff.
However, posse members have embedded an implicit threat in their belief system.
If the sheriff violates his oath of office, as determined by the right-wing extremists themselves, “he shall be removed by the posse to the most populated intersection of streets in the township and at high noon be hung by the neck, the body remaining until sundown as an example to those who would subvert the law.”
The main point here is that there's not a dime's worth of difference between what these jagoffs are doing in places like Oregon and what their counterpart jagoffs are doing in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.

Jagoff is as jagoff does, Forrest.