COVID vaccinations! Have you gotten yours?

[Maladict]

Third Pfizer went down a lot better than second Pfizer.

[Valmy]

No wildness like Uber driver who told us moderna would make us dead for two days.

 

And then on the third day, when it was still dark, garbon's husband went to his tomb and saw the stone had been removed from its entrance. "They have taken garbon out of his tomb, and I don't know where they have put him!"  He then stood outside the tomb crying and then turned around and saw garbon but did not know it was garbon. Garbon then asked him "why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?"

What a sweet moment that would have been.

[garbon]

Black Jesus!

Depending on whose account you believe, drive actually said Modern or said Madonna.

[Sheilbh]

I swear that before the internet cabbes were the largest vector for misinformation. So this makes sense.

[Josquius]

Probably just a correlation.  Orthodox Christian countries tend to be Eastern European countries, and a sense of fatalism is probably one of the most pernicious universal traits there.  So is the wide acceptance of all conspiracy theories, to show that you're smarter than to trust the government.

Yep, this could be true. I hardly open the Russian-language forums these days — I'm out of patience for the endless conspiracies.

Even educated professionals are sending me "articles" about Mr. Gates scheming to reduce the world's population with vaccines... exasperating.

The bill Gates stuff is just bizzare.
A person I know and happened to be Facebook friends with had a thread on whether they should get the vaccine or not. One of their friends posted a bunch of silly stuff why not. I mocked this by joking about how what they said was on a par with Bill Gates implanting chips via the vaccines.... The response - if you think bill Gates is innocent you're deluded.
It seems to be just an article of faith with these people that gates is bad. Really curious how it got there.

[saskganesh]

The bill Gates stuff is just bizzare.

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Really curious how it got there.

Windows.  It changed your life. But it promises so much, and now you are dependent on it, and it often frustrates. It's an unhappy relationship that is now three decades old with no real escape.

It's not like people are in love with Zuttenberg and Bezos either. They are just the new kids in the technoaristocracy.

[Josquius]

The bill Gates stuff is just bizzare.

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Really curious how it got there.

Windows.  It changed your life. But it promises so much, and now you are dependent on it, and it often frustrates. It's an unhappy relationship that is now three decades old with no real escape.

It's not like people are in love with Zuttenberg and Bezos either. They are just the new kids in the technoaristocracy.

I don't think it's just that. 20+ years ago there was a lot of dislike for Gates around Microsofts business practices et al.
But this stuff with him planting chips in brains and everything seems to have just come with his more recent charity efforts.

[Caliga]

The weird thing is, I think it's his ex wife Melinda driving all of that.  I don't think Gates himself cared that much, but realized it was good for his public image.  But these nutjobs don't scream about Melinda Gates a lot, do they?  It's just Bill.

[Admiral Yi]

You're giving these folks too much credit Squeeze.  Remember they also think the DNC is running a pedo sex ring out of a suburban Maryland pizza joint.

[Gaijin de Moscu]

The bill Gates stuff is just bizzare.
A person I know and happened to be Facebook friends with had a thread on whether they should get the vaccine or not. One of their friends posted a bunch of silly stuff why not. I mocked this by joking about how what they said was on a par with Bill Gates implanting chips via the vaccines.... The response - if you think bill Gates is innocent you're deluded.
It seems to be just an article of faith with these people that gates is bad. Really curious how it got there.

In my case, it was my ex-girlfriend from 30 years ago. In an urge to care for me, as we're still good friends, she sent me a link to the Gates's speech, asking me to not get vaccinated.

Apparently, this particular conspiracy theory goes back to his "Innovating to Zero" TedTalk, where he said, among other things, "The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's headed up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent."

https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_innovating_to_zero/transcript?language=en#t-282620

Some people took the speech title to mean innovating to zero population, and his reference to vaccines as the tool to get there.

[The Larch]

Just received my booster, I got Moderna this time, after having received Pfizer for the two previous shots.

[celedhring]

I'm getting mine this Saturday - I planned on spending Sunday in bed 

[mongers]

In my case, it was my ex-girlfriend from 30 years ago. In an urge to care for me, as we're still good friends, she sent me a link to the Gates's speech, asking me to not get vaccinated.

Apparently, this particular conspiracy theory goes back to his "Innovating to Zero" TedTalk, where he said, among other things, "The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's headed up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent."

https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_innovating_to_zero/transcript?language=en#t-282620

Some people took the speech title to mean innovating to zero population, and his reference to vaccines as the tool to get there.

Thanks, did know that.

I guess that makes some sort of sense, a deliberate or very stupid misinterpretation by those people of what Gates was saying, could lead them to those 'facts' as they say.

[Josquius]

Shows how they think like children.

"with my doom laser I shall destroy the world Mwa ha ha" - when I was a kid this seemed a perfectly legitimate thing for a baddy to be doing.
Only with age did I come to think "wait. Doesn't he live in the world? What's in it for him?"

[Gaijin de Moscu]

Yes, the direct quote could be confusing/counter-intuitive. You need to understand the context of his entire speech to get why he's mentioning vaccines and health care whilst talking about lowering the rate of population growth.

As is, the quote is almost perfect and custom-made for the antivax crowd.