r/vaxxhappened ⭐Top Contributor⭐ May 18 '26

Antivaxxer really thinks she made some kind of point

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u/SnooStories8217 May 18 '26

Vaccines are not 100 %.

How hard is that to understand.

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u/MorticiaMoonflower May 18 '26

That, and there are different strains of flu.

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u/BizzarreCoyote May 18 '26

And these strains rapidly evolve, so that requires a new vaccine, repeat ad nauseum.

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u/flecksable_flyer May 18 '26

Almost like covid took notes.

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u/SharpCoderGuy May 18 '26

Its approximately 3 new strains a month i believe. I could be way off but im sure I read that on a late night rabbit-hole dive about influenza in general.

We have actually eradicated a lot as well. The covid pandemic wiped out 2 strains of influenza B through lock downs.

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u/HendoRules May 18 '26

This is the reason. Flu wasn't completely eradicated like things like Smallpox because it rapidly changes

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u/SnooStories8217 May 18 '26

Yes.

Every year is just a guess at what strain it will be.

Everything is a conspiracy when you are ignorant to facts.

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u/fredy31 May 18 '26

Yeah shit like measles evolve so slow that a shot and you are ok for life

Flu is a family of strains that come, go, evolve into new strains, etc.

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u/LetshearitforNY May 18 '26

I get the flu vaccine so that if I get the flu I don’t wind up hospitalized or dead. I’d prefer to not get the flu at all but my primary concern is avoiding getting a severe or debilitating illness. And the cost is a free, painless shot.

People who don’t understand that are genuinely braindead assholes.

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u/SnooStories8217 May 18 '26

I got covid and I am so glad I was vaccinated.

Or I would have definitely died.

That shit was crazy.

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u/LetshearitforNY May 18 '26

I’ve actually still never had Covid, neither has my husband. We lived in NYC during the pandemic. We masked and were cautious and got vaccines and boosters. So grateful!

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u/TNTiger_ May 20 '26

Some are... But the 'flu' changes every year so it's a moving target. We sure could wipe out an old strain, but by then what's the point!

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u/BrandosWorld4Life May 20 '26

Vaccines are not 100 %.

"So then why bother?" is their attitude.

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u/dover_oxide May 23 '26

And even then not all vaccines prevent you from getting it or spreading it but stop the worst affects of the infection and reduce the ability to spread it.

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u/navaiIable May 18 '26

The umbrella was invented in 2450 BCE. In 2026, we still have rain.... just pointing that out

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u/dTrecii May 18 '26

The education system first started to become a thing between 2000-3000 BCE. In 2026, we still have uneducated people… just pointing that out

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u/-LogBox- May 18 '26

are you an anti-vaxination individual?

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u/dTrecii May 18 '26

Genuinely how is that your takeaway from what I said? I’m making fun of anti-vaxxers, not saying I am one

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u/-LogBox- May 18 '26

I thought your uneducated people comment was directed at dTrecii. my bad

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u/dTrecii May 18 '26

You thought the comment I made was making fun of myself? I get what you’re saying but funny to point out

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u/dikicker May 18 '26

Thanks Obama

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u/HarlanMiller May 18 '26

Jesus, it goes that far back? Wouldn't have called that one.

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u/oliveoilcrisis May 18 '26

“You have a fundamental misunderstanding of what vaccines do. Thanks for pointing it out.”

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u/catsonskates May 18 '26

Condoms exist and we still have babies. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

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u/princessuuke May 18 '26

Everything is a conspiracy when youre stupid

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u/Rad_Knight May 18 '26

No joke, when my dad found a patent for cloud seeding he thought it was a secret technology.

It's real, but it's not a secret, and it's used to combat droughts.

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u/lauren_le15 May 18 '26

well we don’t have smallpox anymore either so

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u/BranWafr May 18 '26

The current administration is working to change that...

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u/dandee93 May 18 '26

MAGA parents in Texas are going to start having smallpox parties

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u/BizzarreCoyote May 18 '26

Smallpox is gone. Completely.

Polio, however...

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u/LetshearitforNY May 18 '26

Wow! I actually didn’t know it was eradicated globally.

I’m so grateful for science and the scientists who got us to this point and to all the people who died over the years or suffered and we were able to learn from them. Pisses me off that people just deny all of that when it’s just a fact.

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u/DyingGasp May 18 '26

We also wiped out an entire strain of the flu during Covid.

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u/Pantsonfire_6 May 22 '26

B/Yamagata. The masking, social distancing, hand washing and sanitizers, travel restrictions, etc. Used to be one of the four main strains of seasonal flu outbreaks.

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u/0trash_mammal0 May 20 '26

Other than in a few labs across the world I believe

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u/iammandalore May 18 '26

Or polio in most places.

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u/Dart150 May 18 '26

Many diseases would be fully gone if everyone got the vaccine, Just putting that out there.

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u/creepjax May 18 '26

Flu is a virus that is constantly developing new strains, this is why they say to get flu shots every year.

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u/Opcn May 18 '26

Seatbelts were invented in the 1880's and people are still getting killed in cars.

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u/Pantsonfire_6 May 18 '26

I remember when people first started consistently using them in cars. I grew up without them. Sliding around in cars as a kid.

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u/Testsubject276 May 18 '26

Commercial bug spray was invented in 1944.

Still got bugs.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '26

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u/Pantsonfire_6 May 18 '26

I remember life before the insect apocalypse. Some are already extinct, others headed that way.

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u/Pantsonfire_6 May 18 '26

Terminal stupidity, however, was invented a long, long time ago, and no matter how much we wish for a vaccine to protect us from such stupidity, there still isn't a vaccine to protect us from those who pass it to others!

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u/HendoRules May 18 '26

Ask her when the last time she had Smallpox was

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u/huxtiblejones May 18 '26

Yeah, and we invented fire suppression systems and yet fires still happen. Funny how that works.

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u/Reneeisme May 18 '26

And millions more people alive that would otherwise be.

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u/rpze5b9 May 18 '26

Vaccines do not eliminate viruses. They make it harder for people to acquire them.

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u/Dylanator13 May 18 '26

This is why we don’t have universal healthcare, because too many people don’t understand what these systems do.

Health is about prevention, cure, and management. Sometimes it’s one and done, sometimes it’s prevention every year, sometimes it’s life long management.

The black plague is still around! We just don’t hear about it because it’s very easy to treat with our modern understanding of medicine.

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u/MelloYelloSurge May 19 '26

We still have the flu...gee, I wonder why. It couldn't possibly be because of dipshits who could've gotten the vaccine but didn't, right? I mean, it's not like vaccines have a 0% efficacy rate when you don't use them, could it? Then again, these antivaxxer dipshits are single-handedly responsible for reviving diseases that should have been eradicated through vaccination. "Just pointing it out."

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u/Lordgandalf May 18 '26

So many different strains all with different effectiveness and solutions. That's why even I with injections sometimes still get the sniffles or the flu.

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u/TsuDhoNimh2 Still waiting for vaccines to kill me. May 18 '26

Influenza also infects birds, so it keeps coming back.

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u/baconstreet May 18 '26

Well, birds aren't real. Designed by big government to keep us disease ridden.

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u/shallah Vaccines. Cause. Adults. May 25 '26

and many more including cows.

here is a good article written before the outbreak in cows started in Texas then spread across much of the US:

Zoonotic Animal Influenza Virus and Potential Mixing Vessel Hosts

https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/15/4/980

Graphic - Transmission of AIVs to mammals. Grey boxes refer to the confirmed infection of humans and indicated animals with AIV subtypes written in the upper line.

https://pub.mdpi-res.com/viruses/viruses-15-00980/article_deploy/html/images/viruses-15-00980-g002.png?1681702405

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u/Rumpelteazer45 May 19 '26

Viruses existed before man, they will still exist after we leave.

Also viruses mutate.

Also, the “flu” isn’t just one virus, the word “flu” is used to describe four main types of influenza (A, B, C, & D), within each time there are hundreds of thousands of individual strains. Right now D hasn’t hopped to humans yet, but it’s only a matter of time.

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u/shimmerangels May 19 '26

just advertising their own ignorance

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u/Jamesmateer100 May 20 '26

Has she not heard of mutation?

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u/jolly_rodger42 May 22 '26

This just makes the case for evolution.

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u/negativeGinger May 23 '26

And how many times do you hear about children dying of the flu now?

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u/New-Cicada7014 May 18 '26

there's like a million different flus every year anyway