Sorry, I can’t hear you over the sound of being dead because I took the COVID vaccine.
bird flu
Submitted 3 days ago by any_memes_necessary@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I was told I’d be dead in 5 years because of the covid Vax. So like… Nice talking to you all. This is my year.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 days ago
First it was one year. Then it was two. Now it’s five. Soon it’ll be ten. The bullshit never stops.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I am hella pro vaccine and after my third COVID vaccine I got horribly sick with COVID and I’m not getting any more. Do I think I would have even way more sick if I didn’t get vaccinated? I fully believe I would have been more sick if I wasn’t. But I’m done.
ajoebyanyothername@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m struggling to follow your logic there.
BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
You just need 1 person you know working in a morgue. That’s enough to convince you that the last pandemic was really bad.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
You don’t get it. They are part of the conspiracy. Same as all the flight personnel with chemtrails. Everything is a big conspiracy, except that Facebook post made by some anonymous account, that’s real.
masterbaexunn@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The worst thing about it is that this kind of garbage is leaking out of the United States. US citizens are weird af and poorly educated.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
Well at least they can be. We just have to trust actual clinical trials more. Its perfectly reasonable to be skeptical and cautious until there is actual proof that something is safe.
shininghero@pawb.social 3 days ago
Or remind people of the horrible specter that polio was, and the shadow it cast over society at the time. People lived in constant dread of catching something that could leave them physically ruined, and even wheelchair bound for the rest of their lives back then.
Covid, in its early strains, had the potential to leave you hospitalized and drowning in your own lungs for weeks as it ran its course. Granted, that’s not polio levels of bad… But that’s still weeks of hell, and several more years of hospital billing hell that I would like to avoid.
Weighing those outcomes, I opted for early access to the vaccine. Even though it was more to minimize the risk of an expensive hospital stay.
thesohoriots@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I love a clinical trial. Sign me the eff up. That being said, as you mention, there are some issues with the speed of trials. And in particular, the demographic spread that volunteers for clinical trials in the US is a problem because it’s typically a monolith: white women, college educated, generally healthy, ages 18-35 IIRC. Proportional representation is hard to find, and distrust in public health is (for good historical reasons) low in minority populations. Pulling in a wider swath of people isn’t possible, and researchers are missing massive chunks of data from which trust could be built.
Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This guy in my city had anti vaxx banners and signs. One said “50k+ Canadians suffered side effects from the COVID vaccine!”
So I looked up how many people were vaccinated in Canada, and 50k was below 1% of the people vaccinated. I pointed out to the guy that this means the vaccine had a success rate without side effects of 99% and how incredible that is. Dude got pissed at me and started yelling that I was a shill.
I guess he didn’t like math and common sense
CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Not to be that guy but 50,000 people is still a lot. Percentages are great because if they’re very low we tend to like that but it doesn’t change the absolute number.
The real comparison isn’t how safe the vaccine is, its how safe the vaccine is compared to getting the disease it’s preventing. Every medical product is not about zero harm or low harm, it’s about harm reduction. If medical therapies didn’t cause harm, we wouldn’t have chemo treatments and we would be much worse at treating cancers.
Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Also though that 50k side effects is vague, what did the sign mean? A side effect can be a mild headache or rash, which I would imagine is the majority of those cases. A 99% rate for any medicine is incredible
Corno@lemm.ee 2 days ago
I’ve had people tell me and my friends similar things to this. Some people just aren’t good with numbers and can’t put them into perspective with other numbers and arrive at scary conclusions with no further context. Canada has 40+ million people and side effects can include trivial things such as feeling tired or having a sore arm. On a similar note, 2 of the COVID vaccines were mRNA based and some people were scaremongering about how the vaccines must somehow alter your DNA because both “mRNA” and “DNA” sound vaguely similar.
hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 2 days ago
So there are actually levels to antivaxxers. The granola nuts that think putting anything into your body is a sin are actually the extreme minority or antivaxxers these days.
The average antivaxxer is someone who has extremely little faith in both big pharma and the government as a whole. They usually come from a community that has been screwed over by both. In the US, this translates to older first generation immigrants, the African American community, and low income white people in areas that were hit hard by the opoid crisis.
A lot of these people are cool with the traditional flu vaccine, because it’s been around forever. The covid vaccines on the other hand were met with skepticism, on account of it being “untested”. In their eyes FDA testing and positive media coverage don’t mean anything, because in their eyes both groups have lied to their faces in the past.
A lot of the antivaxxer discourse during covid frustrated me. While there were people who were legitimately just idiots, there were a lot of communities who had fears rooted in genuine trauma and frustration. Calling them a bunch of idiotic death cultists and then celebrating on social media when one of them died just resulted in those communities distrusting the system further.
jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 3 days ago
A) of fucking course
B) always important to say
pH3ra@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
At this stage, the people who still need to hear this are the people we’d like to get rid of, so that problem is probably going to solve itself
Isa@feddit.org 2 days ago
Those people often have children who’s only failure is to be born in such a family. Saying that the problem is going to solve itself is rather unempathic and will do quite some harm the said children of such people. (Just saying)
pH3ra@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Yeah sorry, I tend to get misantropic during the festivities. Right now doing harm to children is like you’re trying to sell it to me even more
uis@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Don’t worry, this is just special retroactive abortion
DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Nuh uh, I get my immunization naturally by rolling around in shit and eating out of date food. Gotta not get any of that microplastic and microtrackers the Rockefeller’s put in the “vaccines”. FaceBook is my bible!
affiliate@lemmy.world 3 days ago
i do all of that and still get my vaccines. in a few years my immune system will be so powerful that nothing will be able to kill me
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 3 days ago
calm down drag
thenextguy@lemmy.world 3 days ago
So, get all your birds vaccinated, kids.
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Do we have an effective bird flue vaccine yet? The trouble is the couple of years before one is created.
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
The president once
saiddecreed “Inject bleach in your veins”RFK Jr. will declare bleach the new vaccine
syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
We’ve been making flu vaccines for a long time now, and the flu has always been a virus that comes in various strains so you need to renew the vaccine frequently (usually once a year, as opposed to other vaccines that can last you a decade), and the medical industry needs to know which strains to make vaccines for.
Part of the thing with covid was that it was novel, and the vaccines were as well, because they needed to be not just developed fast, but deployed fast.
This isn’t the first time H5N1 is making the rounds, and there have been vaccines for it for over a decade. Depending on where you live, your country may have a stockpile of vaccines or just ordered one.
The problems humanity will face with the virus is one of uneven distribution of vaccines due to uneven distribution of wealth, poor health care policies, and science denialism / vaccine conspiracy nightmares.
BaumGeist@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Just a reminder: Animal Agriculture is the leading cause of Zoonoses (PDF: The infectious disease trap of animal agriculture)
Eat a plant based diet to limit pandemics!
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
No
queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Don’t worry, RFK Jr will ban them.
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Anyone know the proper name for this meme template?
Had trouble finding with “yelling burd” “inhale exhale” “bird announce”
RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Seems to mostly be called “Screaming Seagull” or “Inhaling Seagull”
edgarde@lemmy.world 3 days ago
“Birb who want H5N1 vaccine”
sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
The husband of my neighbour died after Covid vaccine. They were both early 30s. That was 2022.
His brain died from oxygen depletion and she had to decide when to turn off the machines.
He was a smoker, she was not.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 days ago
My friend’s Mom was vaccinated for polio and then died of a gunshot wound.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 days ago
After? Or of?
sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
She doesn’t know. I guess even if that was the cause nobody would diagnose that because they want to keep their job, status
MrShankles@reddthat.com 2 days ago
Which vaccine company? If you don’t mind me asking
sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I don’t know, she mentioned it, I forgot
nuzkie@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Nope I’m not getting a single mRNA vaccine, already have a few too much
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Suit yourself. The gene pool can only benefit.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Well then at least have the decency to stay in your home, rather than subject us immunocompromised to another round of dodging a minefield of disease incubators.
penguin202124@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Instead of a single, get multiple!
buttfarts@lemy.lol 3 days ago
Chuds will exacerbate the bird flu by engaging in every unnecessary behavior that can cause transmission just because somebody informs them not to.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Got a friend who’s anti vax because they said a couple of their friends didn’t get vaccinated and were fine, those who did get it suffered from covid and got very sick.
obinice@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Ok but then how do u explain the billions that died from the china virus vaxx jab huh huh huh
qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
THAT IS TRUE!!!
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Are we supposed to vaccinate all the livestock? Isn’t that how these diseases are generated in the first place?
I’m pretty sure the carnist holocaust will continue pumping out new variants.
2lama@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Uh… yeah? Where I live you can literally buy vaccines for you livestock at the general store.
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yes…? We’ve been vaccinating livestock for relevant diseases since 1879, starting with Chicken Cholera.
rational_lib@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Isn’t that how these diseases are generated in the first place?
No, livestock diseases were a problem long before vaccination. In fact it’s been hypothesized that the reason Europeans killed off Native Americans with disease instead of the other way around is that European livestock spread so much disease that it meant Europeans carried and were immune to a wide variety of diseases.
As for why livestock diseases are so common, it’s probably due to the obvious - the cramped conditions, often in close contact with other animals. Think of the classic Chinese wet market with animals from many different places stacked in cages on top of each other with fluids flying all over. That’s the real bio weapons lab.
syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Given how much antibiotics they pump into livestock it wouldn’t be that weird.
But yeah, less intensive animal farming would likely also reduce spread & impact.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 2 days ago
But sadly there’s no vaccine for stupidity. The US desperately needs it.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
There’s one.
Public well funded education.
Isa@feddit.org 3 days ago
But the morgellons and autism!?
/s
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Safe And Effective*
*While supply last. Subject to the oversight of the FDA, which could become politicized upon the inauguration of a new administration. ahem RFK Jr. ahem (Better hope he doesn’t add bleach to vaccines)
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 days ago
To piggyback off this:
Not to be that guy, but I have an immediate family member who got their booster and (I don’t remember what the technical term was, apologies) their immune system started attacking their nerves, which caused them to lose most control over their hands, arms, feet, and legs, and at the worst point, become bedridden and at risk of dying, had they not received the care they did (I’ve been told the docs said ‘a few more days and it would have been too late’). They are recovering, still, almost 3y later; daily care, wheelchair, walker, weekly therapy. It’s been a very slow process, and they only got the help they needed because another family member is in the medical field and was able to correctly diagnose their situation, when their main (prior, now) gp shrugged it off as the flu (???) twice, even as their condition was worsening and painfully obviously not just “the flu”. I have heard of friends of friends who seem to have had this phenomenon occur, but we’re not as lucky to receive (the correct) treatment in time.
Two other family members who got the booster at the same time had no issues. I got mine a couple months after, with no issues. They are usually safe… but not always. Practicing medicine, studying science; never absolutes. Healthy dose of skepticism is okay. But weigh the risks logically, not just “this can happen so I’m never going to do X”, as someone X can save you from Y. My mom in particular was freaking out when I got my booster - understandable, but it’s one risk over another.
skotimusj@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I usually don’t engage in conversations like this but let’s try. The condition you are describing is an autoimmune disease known as Gillain-Barre (Also, sometimes called acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy or AIDP). It is a devastating disease and I am sorry that your loved one has had to cope with it.
This disease can be triggered by any number of exposures including vaccination not just to COVID but to any vaccine. It is truly something to be concerned about and an important thing to understand when making health decisions. Essentially, when your immune system is exposed to something it thinks is foreign (Like a virus, viral protein from a vaccine, or bacteria) you body trys to fight it by making antibodies. The anti bodies attach to it and inactive or kill the virus. Rarely (like 1 in 100000ish) the body makes antibodies that also attach to something that it should not like your own body. If that thing happens to be a spinal nerve you develop this disorder.
If you are concerned about it, you should ABSOLUTELY get the vaccine. You are orders of magnitude more likely to get AIDP (Gillain-Barre) from contracting a native virus than you are from the vaccine. Also, you are more likely to spread the virus causing death and the same low chance of AIDP (Gillain-Barre) to others.
When a vaccine is deemed “safe and effective” that is not to say it is without any risk. Any exposure carries risk. It means that our society is more likely to be healthy with it than without it. Both on an individual and population level. People are concerned about the antigens (things that generate an immune response) in vaccines but you have many more antigenic exposures in the world without vaccines than with them.
Valmond@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s like that freak accident where someone lived because they didn’t have the seatbelt attached.
Also, when you vaccinate 100 million, people still get MS (for example) but they like to blame the vaccine for it.
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 2 days ago
Its always true that nothing is 100% safe. To decide if something is safe you have to evaluate how likely unwanted side effects are and what those Side effects are. Theres always a risk to get some reallllllly bad side effects but in the most cases this doesn’t happen.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Even if any of this is true, which I very much doubt, what evidence do you have that your relative’s illness was caused by the vaccine?
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Oh yea, Vaccines are not 100% safe, the point is that Vaccines will protect more than 99% of people, unfortunately there are cases where there are adverse reactions. My cousin had some heart problems like hours after getting the 2nd dose and and to go to the ER and had to get some surgery (idk all the details), and had to spend several days in ICU, then still have heart issues and weakness even after gettinf discharged from the hospital, have trouble even going to school. Caused a bit of vaccine skepticism amongst my extended family, not everyone gotten fully vaccinated at the time, I’m not sure if they ever got it eventually, or if that incident caused too much fear.
finder585@lemmy.world 2 days ago
My life has improved so much since I embraced a so called ‘evil,’ and ‘destructive’ brain worm. Libs preach unity, but can’t understand the power of many minds united into one. Sad!
lukewarm_ozone@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Huh, that’s a fun thought. If the bird flu turns into a pandemic (there’s a prediction market that gives 16% for it, which is pants-shittingly terrifyingly high), we’ll get to see how the Trump administration deals with one. And that… can go various ways.
On one hand, there’s tons of anti-vaxxers in the Trump voting base and presumably this will affect the government, which is concerning. But on the other hand, one of the biggest problems in the COVID handling was when FDA stopped people from using already-created vaccines for idiotic bureaucracy considerations while people were literally dying by the million. That’s the sort of thing that could go a lot better with just one presidential decision speeding it up, and there’s a bunch of new people with power in the government now, like Elon Musk. Muskrat is a horrible person and kind of insane in some ways, but not stupid and I think he’d notice and act upon an opportunity like that. So I’m not totally pessimistic about how a new pandemic would go, either.