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© Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Facebook froze as anti-vaccine comments swarmed users
By DAVID KLEPPER and AMANDA SEITZ WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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PTownsend
By 'people' do you mean fellow far rightists at the local gun club and those attending evangelical churches throughout the US South and the other bible belt states.
ulysses
Most of them have neither courage nor any morals.
They will pretend to protest but be the first in line to get the vaccine, tucker is a prime example!!!
GdTokyo
Or as Jimmy Kimmel has dubbed them "The Legion of Dumb!"
lincolnman
Hmmmm......
Unvaccinated People Are 11 Times More Likely To Die Of COVID-19, New Research Finds
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/10/1036023973/covid-19-unvaccinated-deaths-11-times-more-likely
Jimizo
Quite a lot of them are unemployable anyway.
Express sister
What is "neo-Marxism"?
Antiquesaving
It is call " herd immunity"
People are recovering faster because those people are vaccinated and as regularly repeated vaccines are not 100% effective in stopping someone from getting covid but are near 100% effective in avoiding death and serious illness.
ulysses
'Immunity herd', that definitely is hilarious!!!
Fact is that a lot of the antivaxxers have ended up seriously ill in hospitals or have even died wishing they had not listened to the right wing liars!
Fighto!
Just look at those pathetic anti-vax losers in the photo. Please lock them out of as many parts of society, employment and life as possible.
lincolnman
Sounds like Gosar, MTG, Hawthorne, and Gohmert meeting with the insurrectionists planning their attempted coup on Jan 6th....
https://news.yahoo.com/jan-6-protest-organizers-met-065512586.html
Busby
I wonder in six weeks how many of the folks in the pic above will follow their favorite far-right radio hosts into the ICU or the morgue...
At least seven radio hosts and high-profile anti-mask and anti-vaccine advocates have died from COVID-19 in recent weeks.
https://www.businessinsider.com/conservative-radio-hosts-anti-maskers-death-covid-19-2021-9
lincolnman
Notice the hand sneaking into the pic holding the sign "It's my Choice!"....
Pretty clear a Texas pro-choice woman crashed their event....
Express sister
Owned by the vaxitharians again hahaha
GdTokyo
If Facebook cannot regulate itself with respect to disinformation, and it clearly cannot, then it needs to be regulated. No mass media channel is allowed to this consistently mislead, intentionally mislead, segments of it's customer base for profit's sake.
Aly Rustom
Hear! Hear!
Antiquesaving
Seems FB isn't the only place where false information is spread.
Mix and match was done in large scale in Canada and the latest studies done independently in different provinces are not only pointing to being efficient but it is also looking like mixing mRNA and the more traditional type has contributed to an even more broadly effective protection.
No one ever said vaccines are 100% effective but the greatly reduced the chance you will get the virus and even more the chance you will get seriously ill.
As for a booster, yes and is that any different from the yearly influenza vaccine? For decades people have been getting their yearly influenza vaccine and no big controversy or problem with that fact.
Suddenly the idea that Covid will be similar in the fact it will require a "booster" or "tweaked" Vaccine periodically is a big deal.
Jimizo
Oh, yes. Check with your doctor first and get a second opinion, particularly if the first opinion is a minority view among doctors.
I’m sure you did this.
Bob Fosse
They’re certainly mad as hell. Mad as in barking.
By posting on Facebook?
‘Truth social’ is going to shake society to the very core, the revolution is coming, respect to those fallen heroes at Frank and Parler protecting liberty for all. I’m off to paint my face blue.
ArtistAtLarge
This is very damning information.
ulysses
Apparently rogan has developed a fondness for fodder as a side effect.
Dr. Gupta is out there for all who can see!!!
Sven Asai
It’s an illusion to think anything would be differing or changing if FB would abide and bring only the information you like or prefer. In addition, there are of course vaccinated and unvaccinated people in all intelligence or age interval groups. There’s no reliable correlation to political background, education, income etc. as well as wrongly FB informed or not. On average it’s an individual decision to get the vaccinations or to doubt and postpone them or to deny and avoid completely.
virusrex
That is incorrect, natural immunity MAY provide a better protection than vaccines, but for mildly symptomatic or asymptomatic patients this is not likely to be the case. Since infections are very different they also stimulate the immune system in ways that can't be just generalized, so a patient that has been infected would require repeated serum samples (something that carry its own risks and can be higher than vaccines) to examine his immunity and extrapolate specifically the level of protection. This is something that vaccinated people do not require because the stimulus is much more uniform, so the data from thousands and thousands of people that were vaccinated and examined can be used to determine their protection level.
In every issue there are many shades of gray, but it is perfectly valid to separate all participants in two groups, those that use valid sources and truthful information and those that choose to lie and deceive,
virusrex
Mass media do not decide scientific facts, if boosters are irrelevant for most of the population they remain so, and therefore regular people will not "need" any, those with advanced age or immunologic problems will, but that is the same situation that happens with previous vaccines, so nothing special.
When your only "argument" os to imagine fictitious situations that have no base on reality it is time to reflect why insist on repeating something that not even yourself think is true.
Raw Beer
Including truthful ones?
NOMINATION
For those like yourself making life decisions by what CNN says.
Blacklabel
“Business lobby calls for administration to 'pump the brakes' on vaccine mandate”
falseflagsteve
The comments here are a good example of what is really going on. It’s the usual trick of getting people on one side or the other, hating each other and arguing whilst a tiny minority benefit greatly financially.
There can be no dispute that the vaccines have a benefit overall but are not the cure that many think or as many politicians and media figures promised a few months ago.
Natural immunity provides better protection yet we have an insistence that a young healthy person with antibodies must be vaccinated, treated the same as a frail 88 year old with multiple health issues.
The whole discussion is now an argument with divided sides squabbling as is usual, whether it be regarding politics, climate change, religion etc. Arguing, name calling and pointing fingers at the perceived enemy is what they want as it doesn’t require critical thinking and seeing the huge profits being made by the few.
Raw Beer
In March, as information about the dangers and ineffectiveness of coronavirus vaccines spun across social media and undermined attempts to stop the spread of the virus, some Facebook employees thought they had found a way to help. By subtly altering how posts about vaccines are ranked in people’s newsfeeds, researchers at the company realized they could provide misleading information about COVID-19 vaccines and offer users posts from compromised sources like the World Health Organization.
bass4funk
Rogan seems to be fine and Gupta seems to be hiding….
bass4funk
When the government tells me to take something that it thinks is medically beneficiary to me but doesn’t know anything about my personal medical history.
bass4funk
Which would depend on which doctor understands my medical history better. Worked out for most people
Yes.
NOMINATION
BLM is even protesting it. The establishment is losing it lol
bass4funk
Some might disagree as this administration sagging poll numbers are showing that.
Yes, as well as other independents and liberals that are tired of these oppressive forces draconian rules. This is why Dave Chappelle (a liberal) who is becoming the poster child of resistance to big government and corporate America.
bass4funk
A lot of people in this administration shouldn’t be employed.
Wolfpack
The vaccine authoritarians are starting to get under the skin of their neo-Marxist allies on the Left.
https://www.newsweek.com/vaccine-mandates-black-lives-matter-activists-collision-course-democrats-1631612
bass4funk
More and more people are just not taking this anymore. People are really starting to fight back
bass4funk
Doubt, people are recovering faster than before, looks like the immunity herd is working.
kurisupisu
The premise of being fully vaccinated is now being overturned by the the ‘mass’ controlled mass media.
Now you’ll need a booster and another and another…
Mix and match vaccines?
No problem there, even though people are falling ill by doing so.