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Crunchy Frog

(26,579 posts)
Sat Dec 18, 2021, 10:24 PM Dec 2021

Local mother/son antivaxxers die within minutes of each other.

Syracuse mother and adult son with Covid-19 die minutes apart at Crouse
https://www.syracuse.com/coronavirus/2021/12/syracuse-mother-and-adult-son-with-covid-19-die-minutes-apart-at-crouse-hospital.html?outputType=amp

Syracuse, N.Y. — A 64-year-old woman and her 30-year-old son - who both had Covid-19 - died a few minutes apart this week in Syracuse.

Jacqueline posted in June a photo of herself with these words around it: “I’m not having the vaccine. My body, My choice.” In May she posted a photo of herself and the words “I trust my immune system not an experimental vaccine. My DNA, My Choice.”


I need to go see if it's posted at Herman Cain Awards yet.






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Local mother/son antivaxxers die within minutes of each other. (Original Post) Crunchy Frog Dec 2021 OP
Not on sav yet. GPV Dec 2021 #1
It was posted on HCA several hours ago. Crunchy Frog Dec 2021 #2
Softly and tenderly, Herman is calling... Blue Owl Dec 2021 #3
Her body, her choice, her stupidity, her death. LonePirate Dec 2021 #4
Such a shame. If there was only some way that these poor people could have protected themselves. bottomofthehill Dec 2021 #5
"I trust my immune system" is the stupidest slogan viva la Dec 2021 #6
People had immune systems back in the days of the bubonic plague. Crunchy Frog Dec 2021 #8
Especially the pathogens self-designed to mutate viva la Dec 2021 #10
Immune systems also cause allergic reactions that range from annoying to life-threatening. ShazzieB Dec 2021 #12
Boy, don't I know it. "Seasonal allergies" viva la Dec 2021 #14
Vaccines work by helping the immune system. LisaL Dec 2021 #13
Yes. I mean, all the vaccine really does scipan Dec 2021 #16
Free-dumb FakeNoose Dec 2021 #7
Arrogant ignorance is deadly. Qutzupalotl Dec 2021 #9
Read this story and thought of this song. Efilroft Sul Dec 2021 #11
Herd continues to thin. AngryOldDem Dec 2021 #15

Crunchy Frog

(26,579 posts)
2. It was posted on HCA several hours ago.
Sat Dec 18, 2021, 10:35 PM
Dec 2021

I only saw it because I look at the local Covid news everyday.

bottomofthehill

(8,329 posts)
5. Such a shame. If there was only some way that these poor people could have protected themselves.
Sat Dec 18, 2021, 11:03 PM
Dec 2021

Masks, a vaccine, something that could protect these people.

viva la

(3,285 posts)
6. "I trust my immune system" is the stupidest slogan
Sat Dec 18, 2021, 11:05 PM
Dec 2021

I guess some ignorant 21st Centurians, who never suffered from the childhood diseases and recover from strep throat in a few hours, don't realize vaccines and antibiotics are, you know, supplementing the immune system.

People used to die of diseases we don't even get anymore. It's not the immune system that is responsible.

Not to mention immune systems often go crazy, leading to the many auto-immune diseases that sicken modern people.

Crunchy Frog

(26,579 posts)
8. People had immune systems back in the days of the bubonic plague.
Sat Dec 18, 2021, 11:11 PM
Dec 2021

They're not always up to the task of dealing with certain pathogens.

viva la

(3,285 posts)
10. Especially the pathogens self-designed to mutate
Sat Dec 18, 2021, 11:31 PM
Dec 2021

to fool the immune system.

Viruses are pretty smart.

ShazzieB

(16,364 posts)
12. Immune systems also cause allergic reactions that range from annoying to life-threatening.
Sun Dec 19, 2021, 01:08 AM
Dec 2021

They can kill us while trying to "protect" us from harmless substances.

Immune systems be crazy.

viva la

(3,285 posts)
14. Boy, don't I know it. "Seasonal allergies"
Sun Dec 19, 2021, 11:39 AM
Dec 2021

have become 'year-round allergies" for me.

Thanks but no thanks, immune system!

LisaL

(44,973 posts)
13. Vaccines work by helping the immune system.
Sun Dec 19, 2021, 01:25 AM
Dec 2021

So immune system is still responsible, it just needs help to act quickly.

scipan

(2,341 posts)
16. Yes. I mean, all the vaccine really does
Sun Dec 19, 2021, 06:40 PM
Dec 2021

is “present “ something “not self” to your body. The immune system does the rest.

Just so dumb.

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