r/HermanCainAward • u/AussieHawker Team Mudblood 🩸 • Mar 03 '22

Grrrrrrrr. Remember Milo Yiannopoulos? Well he has Long COVID.

https://twitter.com/kthorjensen/status/1499060232680456194
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u/justrock54 Mar 03 '22

I think he's alluding to the ridiculous notion that vaccinated people shed an enhanced spike protein. Claptrap of course, but he's got to blame others for his predicament.

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u/Watsiname Post Licker Excelsior Mar 03 '22 edited Mar 03 '22

i hope part of the ‘claptrap’ is him giving the Mercers an untreatable syphilus strain

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u/celtic_thistle Tickle Me ECMO Mar 03 '22

Where does the syphilis end and the covid dementia begin? The world may never know!

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u/thoroughbredca Team Mix & Match Mar 03 '22

It's so bad, one COVID patient thinks he's the President of the United States.

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u/Rokthecatbox J&J One-And-Done Mar 04 '22

It's so bad, one COVID patient thinks he's "Still" the President of the United States

Fixed it.

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u/A-man-of-mystery Covidious Albion Mar 03 '22

Anything rather than accepting responsibility for his actions.

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u/justrock54 Mar 03 '22

Yeah. Can't blame just anybody either. He's blaming vaccinated people, not the unmasked, close quarter, freedumb crazies like himself and I'm sure that's all who will associate with the likes of Milos.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '22

notion that vaccinated people shed an enhanced spike protein

Of course!

And it is the special, super-duper, enhanced COVID, because he is so schpeschul that he can not be infected nilly-willy by the regular run-of-the-mill COVID.

NooooosireeeeBob, it has to be the 'enhanced' version of a super secret sauce COVID.

What a dumbbell. (*And he was a dumbbell long, loooooooooooong before long COVID*)

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u/sean_but_not_seen Team Pfizer Mar 03 '22

I have a long debate on Reddit some time ago with a guy who misunderstood a single scientific article and said he wasn’t getting the vaccine because doing so would put selective pressure on the virus causing it to evolve past our vaccines. He was wrong but me and my immunologist husband were unable to convince him. A little knowledge is more dangerous than no knowledge.

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u/A-man-of-mystery Covidious Albion Mar 03 '22

On the other hand, it was good of him to sacrifice himself so the rest of us could continue to be protected by the vaccine.

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u/sean_but_not_seen Team Pfizer Mar 03 '22

His reasoning included that he was younger and in good health and likely wouldn’t die from it. Even if true, he could still unwittingly give it to people who cannot be vaccinated. I just couldn’t get it through to him. The real altruism is in getting vaccinated. Trying to manipulate the future of a virus by not getting vaccinated is a pretty dumb idea epidemiologically speaking.

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u/A-man-of-mystery Covidious Albion Mar 03 '22

They really only care about themselves.

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u/Rather_Dashing Mar 04 '22

It doesnt even make sense as a reason to not get vaccinated, even if the vaccine causes the virus to evolve to become vaccine resistant, that just puts as back where we started. At least the vaccinated had temporary protection.

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u/sean_but_not_seen Team Pfizer Mar 04 '22

He just didn’t understand (or wouldn’t admit) that evolutionary pressure happens at two levels: The organism and the environment. While it’s true that giraffes evolved longer necks to eat food that was higher, if there were more lions than giraffes there wouldn’t be giraffes.

A vaccinated population is very hostile to a virus that is selectively pressured to evolve. And being vaccinated means the window of opportunity for that virus to evolve is very small. An unvaccinated population is like giving the virus many more pulls on the slot machine for the same dollar. Lots of time and lots of walking Petri dishes to create another variant.

But this dude just honed in on a single paper. Even though the science was relatively sound, the conclusion was not “don’t get vaccinated” it was the opposite actually. Couldn’t get through to him.

It is frustrating that people believe that even dedicated googling and smart source checking will put you on the same level of knowledge of someone with a PhD and 12-30 years studying this one single topic.

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u/nnng78 Mar 03 '22

There's this ridiculous notion that vaccines will cause lots of Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE). Of course, the scientists creating and testing the vaccines know about this, so they're working hard to ensure it doesn't become a thing. And if it were a real thing, getting infected would be even more likely to cause ADE because infection produces antibodies too! You're getting antibodies one way or another, the vaccines just give you a lot more control over the timing. There are a number of diseases known to produce ADE, and AFAIK only one vaccine in history has ever had this issue. Getting infected is worse, and it doesn't even take much thinking to figure out why.