• GrymEdm@lemmy.world
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    I can’t believe these arguments are still a thing. There have been 13.72 Billion doses of COVID vaccines administered by now. That’s roughly 1.7 doses per every living person on Earth. If even 1 in 1000 doses caused side effects there would be many millions of cases. How big a data set do these…people…need as proof that the vaccine is basically a modern miracle of safe and effective medicine?

    What makes me super angry is it’s not just the adults involved who will suffer. These…people…are substantially increasing their kids’ risk of serious disease because of politics and conspiracies.

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      when you’re brainwashed to believe words like “expert,” “evidence,” “science,” “education,” etc. are dirty words, it follows that it doesn’t matter how large a data set is-- it’s “fake news”

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          people constantly say “cognitive dissonance” when they should be using doublethink. there is no ‘dissonance’ when you see absolutely no problem with believing 2 completely contradictory things, e.g., “we must protect the children” and “oh well nothing we can do about school shootings”