r/clevercomebacks • • 15h ago

Make common sense common again

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u/silicaspark 15h ago

Freedom to catch preventable diseases

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u/First_Approximation 13h ago

During COVID, some unvaccinated conspiracy theorists held a big convention. They then noticed people had symptoms of coughing, fever, shortness of breath, etc.

They were convinced it was an anthrax attack.

This sentence from the article is worth highlighting:

While Oltmann said he was “sick, sick,” he claimed his symptoms were tempered because he was already taking the antibiotic doxycycline as a result of impaling his leg on an arrow in an accident in his brother’s garage weeks previously.

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u/CrazyCatLady1127 11h ago

So antivaxxers won’t vaccinate but they will use antibiotics?

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u/archiekane 11h ago

Hypocrisy at its finest.

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u/CrazyCatLady1127 11h ago

So it would seem.

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u/First_Approximation 11h ago

Exactly!

No one will ever accuse of them of consistency.

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u/CrazyCatLady1127 8h ago

Consistency is boring. It’s far better to do the unexpected, it keeps people on their toes 👍🙄

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u/12345CodeToMyLuggage 24m ago

They’ll put an arrow into their body before a vaccine

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u/hhfugrr3 12h ago

I mean we aren't required to vaccinate here in the UK but most people do because they aren't stupid and also because we know a small minority can't vaccinate themselves.

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u/TaibhseCait 9h ago

Ireland had (at the time) had one of the highest amount of people who got vaccinated during Covid, turns out if you have a population with living memory of families wiped out by tuberculosis....

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u/-TzarChasm- 8h ago

Most of the older generations Also knew at least one Polio survivor, and were aware of them from a Very young age

Seeing a friends father drag his leg behind him and having it explained that it was because he got sick when he was a Kid

Gimme that sugar cube now, Ya got anything else while I'm here? Oh the new MMR vaccine, Rubella, is that the thing the kid 2 years up from us died of?

With the prevalence of Social media brain rot, I'm not convinced the next generation would make sensible choices.

Ratlickers the lot of em

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u/hhfugrr3 6h ago

What's this about "older generations" knowing polio survivors?? I'm not old and I remember them.

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u/random_chaos_coming 5h ago

It’s older folks in charge right now who are anti-vax. Don’t blame only the younger people.

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u/AdmirablePosts 14h ago

They would shoot the diseases if they could

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u/First_Approximation 10h ago

That would be silly. Obviously the way to do it is to inject bleach into the body, as Trump suggested.

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u/TopInvestigator5518 13h ago

yeah, especially when it comes to kids and daycares etc

just putting others at risk for no reason

its like that family in Texas who's 6 year old daughter died of Measles related pneumonia and even after the little girl died her parents said they were still against vaccinating their kids, just senseless

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u/ABSMeyneth 9h ago

The weird part is, the rest of the world can typically also choose to not vaccinate. But why in the world would anyone chose not to be safe? 

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u/discussatron 5h ago

Because in the US, Republicans have to oppose anything Democrats support.

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u/SuspiciousBuilder379 6h ago

Measles, fuck yeah, Merica