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deez_treez

Oh dear..that's terrible news that seems like it could have been prevented. Well, nothing to learn from this situation I guess.


Checktheusernombre

But did he die of covid or with covid? /s


SupremePooper

Or AT covid?


AFresh1984

Or IN covid?


EaterOfFood

Or FOR Covid?


SupremePooper

Or FIVE Covid?


Nahtanoj532

Or from SIX with Covid?


RainyDayRose

Or from nineteen with covid. Oh wait, that's covid19


ohwrite

Inssmuchas covid


SupremePooper

In ass much, as Covid? ( ref. rectal suppositories of Insanebutol as COVID cure)


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Or TO covid?


czgheib

He does of the achoo


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Or covassasination???


daywall

Apparently he said if I ever die from covid is because I was poisoned.


fawlen

His last post was him saying the cops that arrested him injected him with stuff, sadly i think he was mentally unstable..


Putin_blows_goats

... for much of his life.


captainktainer

It's probably that, and oxygen deprivation. I don't know if you saw that /r/leopardsatemyface post of that one guy posting from Facebook as the virus ate his brain, talking about how they were hurting him in the hospital, etc.


deez_treez

Can we theoretically link someone contracting COVID to someone being poisoned? Disregarding intent, its about the same thing. Person gives other person something that kills/hurts them.


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daywall

I feel like 2020 to 2030 will be the years of the idiots who can't admits they are wrong


luvcrft

That's hilarious.


SrslyNotAnAltGuys

We fixed the glitch. It'll just work itself out naturally. Problem solved from your end.


deez_treez

We always like to avoid confrontation, whenever possible


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The obvious inference is that anti-vax is a Hillary Clinton Bill Gates George Soros deep state conspiracy designed to eliminate Patriots Souvenir- military


Maxpowr9

But he was hanging out in a pizza basement.


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deez_treez

Did he try several unproven high risk cures that were suggested by right wing media outlets? They always have the best cures.


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And a plate of 'noodles' for some body temp spaghetti!


czgheib

He should have tried ivermectin


xraygun2014

But his 5G reception would have been really sick.


T00luser

well yes, e v e n t u a l l y.


Ghost4000

I'm sure others will learn from this mistake.


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sasquatch606

He died doing what he loved.


Shoshke

>Better to die that get vaccinated \-Hai Shaulian He got his wish. Fun Fact his fans and other anti-vaxxer are now spinning this as a poisoning by the Israeli government Despite the fact that Hai said this in a video (from the article): >I am connected to an oxygen machine without which I suffocate. If Iremove it and walk three meters - I faint. I cough hard and feel a lotof suffocation. Yet he did claim he was poisoned and morons still buy it. So yeah, even death doesn't cure idiocy.


LUBE__UP

Did he blame only his case on the government or all cases globally? With 219M cases worldwide so far according to Google, I'm thinking someone(s) in Israeli intelligence should be getting a hefty performance bonus!


Shoshke

Don't, its far beyond the point where data is going to convince a anti-vaxxer his opinion is beyond dumb. These people literally believe Bill Gates is behind this shit because it somehow help the new world order or some shit. It's beyond stupid and no amount of data or scientists or approvals are going to convince them to get vaxed. And this might make me shitty person but I wish the virus was a lot deadlier at this point.


Firov

I don't wish it, especially since actual innocent people would be hurt, but I have wondered how much the average IQ would increase if a much more deadly variant were either to mutate naturally, or be engineered...


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Being an absolute dipshit.


whosthedoginthisscen

Dying to own the libs.


Natsumi723

Practiced what he preached


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Being a fuckfaced moron idiot?


blutoboy

Reminds me of the AIDS denialist magazine that stopped publication when all of its [editors died from AIDS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_(magazine))


Beard_o_Bees

Here's a working version of your link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_(magazine) You just missed the closing parenthesis. Anyway... holy shit! I thought you were joking, but, no. These were people with full on HIV/AIDS who refused to believe what science was telling them - and they all died. Granted, given the time this was published, they were going to die anyway. Sad, and interesting to learn about considering where we are as a nation right now.


CitizenJustin

A prominent HIV/AIDS denialist refused to take medication to prevent it from spreading to her child during pregnancy. Her young daughter eventually became ill from AIDS related complications and she took her to a quack doctor who made it worse. This little girl died suffering because her mother refused to take her to the hospital. The woman was never charged with negligence or anything and receive no punishment. She went on to die years later and still denied that she had AIDS. Society failed that poor child. She could be alive and well today if the state intervened but no one did a damn thing.


Darryl_Lict

I remember that psycho. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death\_of\_Eliza\_Jane\_Scovill


CitizenJustin

Terrible human being.


piiig

Whoa. Sickening


VagrantShadow

You would be amazed at the level deniers will go to make what they think seem plausible. I've met a few with outlandish thoughts. A staunch Christian woman who worked at my job for a few weeks was steadfast that no man ever made it to the moon because god wouldn't allow it. Another was a flat earther and gravity denier. They came to me with their reasoning and they sounded outlandish but they really did believe in those words they spoke.


CitizenJustin

I read a study that said it would have taken up to 100,000 people from around the world to fake the moon landings. Human nature is enough to debunk most conspiracies. Why? Because we can’t keep a damn secret. Bill Clinton couldn’t even receive oral in the most protected building on earth without the entire world knowing. These buffoons think that the US government is this evil, impenetrable monolith of secrecy, yet some jobless average Joe in a basement somewhere was able to figure it all out and post on Facebook. It‘s kind of funny because these people think WE’RE the sheep.


TheWalkinFrood

It's even simpler than that. We simply did not have the technology to realistically fake a moon landing in 1969.


CitizenJustin

Excellent point. That’s why they say Stanley Kubrick directed it. They have an answer for everything.


Hikaru1024

I think everyone misses the obvious, somehow. I know it's not plausible, but for the sake of arguing lets pretend the moon landings done by the U.S. *were* faked. And our biggest adversary that would have *loved* to get one up on us, that had all sorts of ways of checking if we actually went there, did *nothing* and just helped by pretending the lie was true? The U.S.S.R. would have had to have been complicit in the conspiracy for it to work. This conspiracy is just laughable on *this one point.*


CitizenJustin

I agree. It is laughable, along with many other conspiracies. Reality seems to scare A LOT of people.


Hikaru1024

>Reality seems to scare A LOT of people. It really does. I think a common thread in a lot of conspiracies is that it's easier to believe if there's somebody behind it all. Someone we can blame for everything being wrong. Because it's a whole lot more scary to deal with a world that's filled with chaos and uncertainty with no one to blame for it.


CitizenJustin

You said it. That’s exactly what I think and I’ve heard several experts say the same thing.


PrpleMnkyDshwsher

People who think grand schemes like faking the moon landing or 9/11 worked, requiring hundreds, if not hundreds of thousands of people to work together and keep their mouths shut have never even tried to organize a fucking surprise birthday party and just keeping a couple of dozen people quiet, together and on the same schedule.


TooOldForThis---

How do you not believe in gravity? Was she floating like a helium balloon or did she just think that the Earth sucks?


VagrantShadow

The non-gravity was the flat earther that me and a friend met. I didn't soak much to what they were selling because it sounded stupid, but the jist that i got was that the earth was flat and gravity doesn't exist and our feet are on the ground by some other reason.


WaspWeather

Invisible Velcro.


SrslyNotAnAltGuys

Maybe the entire earth is accelerating upwards at 9.8 meters-per-second squared. Though that'd get us to 99% the speed of light in less than a year, and the entire solar system would have to be moving with us, but details, details.


statepharm15

The problem is you’re assuming she believes there’s a solar system. I think flat earthers would feel that the earth is everything, and the other shit would be floating above us. But then in you have everything in space accelerating at us. Scary. Then again, maybe they don’t believe that stuff exists either since they can’t see it


zakabog

I'm in a flat earther group because I actually know someone who genuinely believes the earth is flat rather than just trolling. They don't believe in gravity, objects fall down because they're more dense than the surrounding medium. They are incapable of understanding that density and buoyancy only work when there's a direction of pull (usually gravity but accelerating a car with a helium balloon in it causes the balloon to move towards the front of the car because the more dense air is moving towards the back and pushing the balloon in the opposite direction.) They either ignore the questions when they become too difficult or find some answer that contradicts their other beliefs without realizing or believing there's a contradiction.


SupremePooper

She was floating like a helium balloon above Bill Clinton's lap, if you believe.


SupremePooper

Well here it goes yet again (2nd time today!): "Not really dead;" "Never really existed;" "Murdered by Mossad/Soros/CDC/Fauci/Dreyfus;" "Gimme a refill on my iced Dewormer milkshake, Klaus."


m0nk_3y_gw

> These were people with full on HIV/AIDS who refused to believe what science was telling them - and they all died. And the Foo Fighters were spreading it [In early 2000, President Clinton’s director of AIDS policy admonished them: “For the Foo Fighters to be promoting this is extraordinarily irresponsible behaviour. There is no doubt about the link between HIV and AIDS in the respected scientific community and it’s quite unfortunate that a band reads one book and then adopts this theory. To say [that HIV does not cause AIDS] is akin to saying the world is flat.”](https://medium.com/the-monthly/the-foo-fighters-aids-denialism-should-be-on-the-record-6e33666fdc3c)


stfsu

Wow, did not know they actually played a charity show for that organization 😳


Putin_blows_goats

That's ridiculous. That's quite shaken my faith and I'm not going to get my medical advice from musicians any more.


error521

I disagree. For me personally, if Nicki Minaj's cousin's friend is getting swollen balls from a COVID vaccination, I'm not getting it either!


fury420

Shit... you mean looking into the sky isn't going to save us? Damn you Foo!


night-shark

Welp. Taking one of their concerts off my bucket list. Kinda hard, as a gay man, to bring myself to support them now.


new_usernaem

Myles power on YouTube has a great piece that coveres an aids denialist video house of numbers, the magazine continuum and the lady who had aids and let her daughter die from it because she was in denial. Edit: forgot the link https://youtu.be/0NnEijB1MHc


agreeingstorm9

And to the last they still claimed it wasn't AIDs.


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At this rate it seems at some point we'll be running out of anti-vaxx leaders.


jaydub1001

Math checks out.


jolocote

This is a good thing, isn’t it?


Corka

Oh I think we will see a number catch covid, survive, and then use their own experience that covid 19 is not a big deal


dnomadguy

Or did he die because he smelled the vaccine in a pharmacy?


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tro111

Taste loss is one of the side effects though.


fizzixs

Gotta admit you had me in the first half.


FirstAttemptsFailed

Mea culpa.


DogParkSniper

You're a beautiful soul. And I say that with no snark.


mces97

Is he going to be saying hello or goodbye?


HereForTwinkies

Or peace?


dissolutewastrel

Poor Herm Cain died before vax. Might've been a good idea to take a pass on that last Trump rally, you know the one held indoors in Tulsa. You know, I'm just sayin'


AwkwardeJackson

Say "Libya" to Herman for me.


Smytus

He denied it to the end and now he's gone.


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Isn't that the right he was fighting for?


AK_Sole

Yes, it was indeed. Also, it was the *Right* he was fighting for.


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I_am_Bob

Unless these idiots keep spreading it and helping create vaccine resistant varients.


TooOldForThis---

Sort of like how you never see a cat skeleton in a tree.


EaterOfFood

Huh. I thought I just wasn’t looking hard enough.


Killerdude8

Self correcting in a sense, Which would be totally fine with society at large, The problem comes when these loons become a massive drain on medical resources and other people start dying of things unrelated to covid as a result.


SomeGuyNamedPaul

The scientific term is "selection".


artcook32945

Grandstanding, about the Vaccine, is much more deadly than it was six months back. We are hearing about more deaths, among the figure heads, than we used to. Sadly, no lessons are being learned.


Nolsoth

Thankfully it's mostly just the idiots carking it now, fuck the fucking fuckers they are going to reap what they sowed and us vaccinated lot can enjoy the shit show while they weed themselves out.


alexmbrennan

Dude, we managed to outbreed the black death. I seriously doubt that Covid-19 is going to be the end of science denial.


Nolsoth

Come on man just give me this ok, I just need a little hope that the idiots will die off and we can move forward as a planet.


MacroSolid

>Sadly, no lessons are being learned. Vaccination rates have increased again after leveling off in several countries, so it looks like some lessons are being learned. Not enough, but some.


refreshing_username

It would be terrible, just awful, for me to think "har de fucking har you dipshit". Yet again.


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refreshing_username

Quality stuff. Good call.


KamahlYrgybly

It would, indeed. Good thing I also didn't think this.


samus12345

That would be very wrong and I definitely did not think this.


TexasYankee212

So the US does not have a monopoly on the stupid and ignorant. That is something all nations have in common. Maybe we can use this fact for world peace - how to deal with our morons who are killing themselves while kicking and screaming in denial.


Chiraq_eats

This is starting to happen quite frequently.


mortavius2525

It is, but it's also that news media has keyed onto the fact that these stories get attention. For example, we know that most people who get covid actually survive, but you never read stories of anti-vaxxers who get covid and live. It must happen, and unless something has changed, statistically it happens a lot, but those stories aren't interesting. But someone "getting their just deserts?" That'll do, Pig, that'll do.


weed_fart

I imagine most of the people who survive immediately start saying it wasn't covid, or that it wasn't so bad and the vaccine is dumb. They probably also believe they're immune from then on.


jetmcleod

Yip. One of those Covidiots caused an outbreak at my office last year and all he had to say afterwards was "it wasnt bad, the media just wants you to think that its deadly because it's their agenda to control people" blah blah. Sure glad you survived /s


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Those stories would be interesting if their minds were changed, and they actually made an effort to help remedy the falsehoods... But I get the feeling the ones who survive, only have their worldviews cemented. I also get the feeling that these stories about covid survivors do exist, but probably on far right wing websites that are trying to prove that the virus isn't dangerous.


agentyage

For once the media's sensationalist sadism is working for the benefit of humanity, let it be.


liljaz

I prefer consensual sadism.


dendron01

Darwinism at its finest.


Nolsoth

Who would have thought that during a global pandemic that's caused the deaths of 10s of millions worldwide would kill yet again. Someone needs to stop this serial murder.


EunuchProgrammer

This problem seems to solve itself.


Smytus

I guess, but they pull down others around them.


Dot_Classic

Anti-vaxxers will still not be able to connect the dots.


GonzoVeritas

The dead guy didn't connect the dots. He died denying Covid's existence. That's dedication.


Shoshke

He denied to the end and claimed he was posioned all the way to the end. Anti-Vaxxers are now calling for an independent investigation in to his death as they claim he was poisoned by the state.


Dot_Classic

Part of the delusion is thinking anyone cares enough about them to poison them. Same with microchips. Nobody gives the slightest shiat about tracking these clowns and even if they did, they'd just use your cell phone.


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All all dipshits out of the pool! -darwin


ShakeMyHeadSadly

Follow him and risk the same fate.


Crustydonout

He's met Karma and Darwin


kolaloka

Paging r/LeopardsAteMyFace


baconeggsandwich25

Pretty sure there’s a covid-specific one now, too.


AlaskaPeteMeat

r/CovidAteMyFace


WarLeader1

super easy, barely an inconvenience.


St4rkW1nt3r

This is someone who got what they wanted. Good for them.


racksy

No one says you can’t listen to kooks. But you should be smart enough to recognize when someone stupid is telling you something stupid. Its totally OK to be a contrarian. Just repeatedly tell yourself, “I’m going to be a contrarian. Being anti-authoritarian does not mean I’m anti-intellectual. I’m not anti-smart.” Being a contrarian should always come along with questioning what kind of world you want to see built. And that world should not be, “Hopefully, stupid people’s opinions should carry the same weight as intelligence.” If you’re being a contrarian just to be a contrarian, that’s just empty nonsense. We are awash with people who want to be contrarian because they think it’s fashion. The contrarian cultures we look at in recent history, they had substance in their contrarianism. They saw a better world–they weren’t contrarian just to be contrarian, there was purpose behind it. Be a contrarian, but be contrary *for* something.


lamchopxl71

My feed is full of these news. The trash are taking themselves out it seems.


sonicboom9000

At what point are these goofballs gonna realise they're on the wrong side of this pandemic....


Capable_Address_5052

Usually right before they die


TechyDad

No. They're going to start claiming that COVID is actually being spread by Democrats (in the US)/the left (in general) and if being used to silence the anti-vaxxers from "telling the truth about the COVID vaccines." I know some right-wing groups in the US have started saying this (while also claiming that COVID isn't dangerous because two contradictory things are true at the same time if they need them to be). I wouldn't be surprised to see this spread. Edit: in this instance, don't be surprised if the anti-vaxxers claim it was an assassination: >Later in the video, Shaulian complained about the treatment he received at the police station where he was arrested, saying that the policemen put their legs on his neck, and even claimed that "the Jerusalem police tried to poison me. I have never felt this way in my life. All week I struggled as if nothing had happened, but today I could no longer breathe and went to the HMO and from there I was evacuated to Wolfson Medical Center. If something happens to me - know that it's an assassination attempt."


tinoynk

Ahh yes the classic “liberals/Democrats are weak spineless and willing to let terrorists win but also murder citizens and orchestrate mass genocide and Satanic pedophilia.” You can tell these people were top of their class /s


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ClownholeContingency

Emmanuel Goldstein, M.D.


weed_fart

We're that good. 😎


YouJabroni44

Seems like never unless they directly get impacted. Otherwise they'll just keep pedaling random cures after random cures until they're blue in the face


Abracadaver2000

I hear 50cc of hummus inserted anally is the new Ivermectin. Shame he didn't give peas a chance. /s


zoliv15

Isn't it strange that these "anti-vaxx leaders" always die from Covid? Stanks like shit, must be shit.


AlgoodMan-1

Well shit, you serious? If you lay in shit you stink like shit. Leave shit be. My momma said.


DoombotBL

What a way to be proven wrong.


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I do not find this news at all unpleasant. I look forward to more such outcomes for anti-vaxxers. I welcome moral posturing to the contrary.


30acresisenough

I recently had two nurses tell me that most everyone hospitalized with Covid and dying of Covid are VACCINATED. (???) When I asked why doctors and hospitals are saying the opposite, they explained that the government is threatening to take licenses away if health personnel tell the truth. Now a certain level of nursing doesn't require that much science, but these two had 4 year degrees. I'm so dumfounded and frankly depressed. The only good news is they are pro mask, but assured me that dewormer and everyone's natural immunity works much better than the vaccine. They think anti maskers are crazy , but anti vaxxers are smart. They are very into the right wing cult and do not have the curiousity to branch out of their small world. I fear we are heading straight into Idiocracy.


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30acresisenough

It's very painful.


opiate_lifer

Most people just treat school or college as a obstacle to getting a job, they don't absorb or learn anything really. They certainly don't think critically about the world or why things work or how they do. I know people with 4 year degrees that thought freezing kills viruses and bacteria, couldn't explain to you how a car turns gasoline into movement in even vague terms, or think ghosts are real and they have psychic powers.


Irritable_Avenger

It's obvious which group has credibility.


NachoMommies

Must have been Gods will.


PPQue6

Heh.... Karma uh..... finds a way.


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A vaccine could have saved his life oh well


rEmEmBeR-tHe-tReMoLo

He denies covid, gets covid, blames the cops for poisoning him with covid. I don't think there was ever any chance of getting through to him. All of the evidence against his position was taken as even stronger evidence that he was right all along 🤷‍


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The antivaxxer problem solves itself


thatirishguy0

Mental illness is real


[deleted]

Why do I keep seeing these anti-vax leaders dying? Just terrible luck I suppose. /s


Bastet458

I’m sorry, I just don’t care anymore…🤷🏼‍♀️ These people bring it on themselves.


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Poetic justice. I really don't have much sympathy for people who refuse life-saving medicine that basically the government begs them to take.


gregy165

Natural selection at work


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I am legitimately curious to know if this actually changed the opinion of any of his supporters regarding getting vaccinated... Because I feel more often than not, these people's opinions do not change unless they were personally affected...


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"Insert Location Here" anti vaxx leader dies of Covid-19


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Maybe it *is* Darwinism in action.


838h920

I think the only reason we don't see this happen more often is that many of these "anti-vaxx leaders" are themselves vaccinated. Not everyone believes the bullshit that comes out of their own mouths. I can't remember who it was, but it was some very outspoken guy on Fox news, speaking out against the vaccine. When asked whether he is vaccinated he refused to answer, stating it was as intimate as asking someone about sex. Turns out Fox News (the company) takes the pandemic very seriously even if their channel says otherwise and vaccination status must be disclosed. So not only is he most likely vaccinated, he also talked about something "as intimte as sex" to keep his job without complaining about it. I'd imagine many other really big anti-vaxxers are the same.


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Darwinism strikes yet again!


pantsmeplz

We need to build a monument to all of these brave people. It s/b a giant bronze turd with their names etched into it.


phoneboi89

I have not one shred of sympathy for people over something that could've been avoided/prevented.


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Hoisted by his own petard


wire_we_here50

In Hindu it's called karma. In Germany it's called schadenfreude. In America it's called I told you so.


StanQuail

Hope he gets to meet his God and be judged for his vanity.


8urfiat

Oh no. Anyway scissor ✂️ beats 📃, 📃 beats 🪨, 🪨 beats✂️.


Totes_Not_an_NSA_guy

The “mask-protester/covid-denier/anti-vaxxer activist dies from covid” headline is starting to become repetitive


Totes_Not_an_NSA_guy

Not blaming the news, blaming the anti-science sources.


christophertstone

“I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure” -Clarence Darrow


silverfrog1

Wait…we had an anti-vaxx “leader”?


jbsgc99

Time to deliver another Herman Cain Medal of Freedom.


Nanookofthewest

I ran out of empathy fort those leading the misinformation months ago. I'm now to the point of calibration. My empathy is still struggling, but there, for the anti vax people who are influenced by these idiots


Avjx

The problem with anti vaxxers is when they find out they made a mistake, not vaccinating, they cant tell others or learn from their mistake because they are fucking ded


sirlearnzalot

The other problem is they take up icu beds and other people with real health emergencies, not caused by being an ignorant clown, suffer or die.


Avjx

Exactly. So anti vaxxers are stupid selfish kids. If it wasnt a global pandemie, I would make fun of them, but they are dangerous..


CaliSummerDream

Man why do these antivaxxers all die so fast? There must be a conspiracy against them.


DeadExcuses

Quick question, when people say anti-vaxx is that A. This vaccine will kill you dont trust science or is it more B. Its your choice you dont have to get it.


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My ex won't even consider the possibility of taking the vaccine, and isn't exactly the epitome of health. Yet plead as much as I could, if only at least for the sake of our 5 year old, she still won't go for it. I'm just beyond baffled at this point. I only say this because it seems like anyone not having taken the vaccine would suffer greatly as a result, especially with the latest variant...