In the 12–0 vote, the committee of advisors selected by anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. adopted a recommendation for adults 65 and older and people aged 6 months to 64 years to get a COVID-19 vaccine based on shared clinical decision-making. After this story was published, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention adopted the recommendation, which will broadly maintain requirements that federal and private health insurance plans cover COVID-19 vaccines at no cost.
But the panel today also heard from outside sources who presented unvetted evidence and associations, suggesting COVID-19 vaccines cause cancer and nefariously linger in the body. The members themselves brought their own conspiracy theories and bunkum to the table.
Wait, does that mean I can get it covered by insurance now?
I literally don’t talk to a lot of people in real life about my COVID vaccinations because I don’t want to hear any dumbfucks blame my very common prior to COVID cancer on me having gotten the COVID vaccine. I just don’t have the energy for such stupidity in my life.
The strategy moving forward might just have to be, ‘I had cancer - terminal, stage 9 - got the jab, and what do you know, I’m cured and got a promotion.’
I similarly don’t bring it up. Quite telling though to hear how some people mention the vaccines. Their intonation can be a good barometer of how much I’d like to engage with them.
For bonus points, you were on ivermectin when you got the cancer.
Ivermectin gave me the cancer, the vaccine cured it!
To flip the common mentality on these knuckleheads:
“Screw you. Got mine.”
I heard the vaccine would render me infertile, kill my brain cells, whatever.
Whelp, my ADHD certainly hasn’t gotten better. But I’m expecting my firstborn, conceived with a vaccinated spouse with no scientific assistance.
Most importantly: Still breathing.
Generally, the inexperienced and dubiously qualified panel did not have a good grasp of how any of their recommendations would translate to real-world practices.
For instance, in two other votes related to COVID-19 vaccines this afternoon, the panel voted in favor of recommending changes to informed-consent processes. But it’s entirely unclear what those recommendations mean in practice—if anything.
As expected, inept idiots incompetently bungled their way to pretty much nothing. Great job fuckwits. Go home. To russia.
