Wow. That’s quite a turnaround. I wonder what triggered that.
I’ll ask again, seriously, would it be wrong or in bad taste to start a thread of anti-vaxxers who died from Covid?
Phil Valentine takes one for the covidiot team.
The recipient of a transfusion from a Covid-19 vaccinated person likely would provide some passive immunity, lasting probably weeks to a few months. Whether this would be significantly protective against infection or serious disease hasn’t been resolved to my knowledge. According to the following article from a few months ago, the Red Cross is accepting blood donations from vaccinated people but due to lack of sufficient data, not automatically treating them the same as convalescent plasma from previously infected people (which has been used with varying results in treating the sick). Donations are tested for anti-Covid-19 antibodies and if levels are sufficient high, the plasma can be added to the convalescent plasma supply.
It’d be a twist if people were specifically requesting transfusions from the vaccinated in order to get extra protection, but they’d be out of luck just like the antivax paranoids.
I finally had enough of my long hair and went for an appointment Saturday. I was wearing a mask, the stylist wore a mask (at my request)…and that was it. 
I can only guess why one of the customers stared at me the whole time.
Bonus: another stylist waiting on her next client made small talk while I was waiting for a dryer. She asked what I did for a living; I told her “mechanical engineer.” She responded, “I don’t even know what that is,” and then proceeded to conflate it with people who puff up their job descriptions by adding ‘engineer’ to their title (e.g., a janitor who calls themselves a “sanitation engineer”). 
I just found out that my cousin, whose nurse’s aide daughter convinced her not to get vaxxed, had to take her husband to urgent care on Thurs for covid. And the next day, the daughter (who lives with my cousin and sick husband along with daughter’s 8-yr-old son) sent her son to school despite being exposed. Knowing the Trumpist region they’re in, it’s probably not uncommon.
My theory is, 9/11 actually drove a lot of people quietly insane, and they embraced right wing authoritarianism as the big strong protector who would keep them safe.
Oh, absolutely. It’s known as having a Dennis Miller Complex.
He’s always been attracted to conspiracy theories, such as the Bilderbergers. (He made a science fiction comedy based on CTs.) But when I really noticed his change was when Obamacare happened. He thought it was wrong that he should be forced to buy insurance. He really seemed to go over the edge five years ago, citing Russia Today articles as if they weren’t from an arm of Russian intelligence.
Quoting Dr. Lee Merritt, an orthopedic surgeon, who styles herself “The Medical Rebel”, on the dangers of “shedding” by those who’ve been vaccinated against Covid-19:
“I myself had the experience of touching a recently vaccinated patient, and almost a week later, developed significant nose bleeding that stopped only after dosing with hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. Many would say that this was a coincidence, but at age 68, this was the first nosebleed of my life.”
Sounds incontrovertible to me. 
I would say that was just his remaining sane brain cells trying to escape. 
This, absolutely. I’ve thought this for a long long time and have witnessed or heard stories about happy, reasonable people who turned into rampaging right-wing hate-mongers after 9/11. It’s as if their underpinnings were all knocked out from underneath them along with their naïve belief in this country’s infallibility in one fell swoop and they never recovered, never put the events in perspective and moved on. I’ve known people like this and it’s often made me wonder if I ever really knew these people at all.
I had another one today who will not get vaccinated. They hit me with the “relative in health care” who has seen all of the bad effects, the “400,000 people have died from the vaccines” and the friend of a friend who “got the vaccine and died four days later”. I countered with “it’s now FDA approved”, “if 400,000 people have died from the vaccines then where are they and why do they not seem to be missing” and “people die suddenly every day but that doesn’t mean a vaccine is to blame”.
I even tried “Would you take a bullet for your child? Why then won’t you take a vaccine to protect them?”
I closed with “I am seriously considering requiring all unvaccinated patients to be seen remotely” and was accused of discriminating against the unvaccinated. I then managed to force myself to drop it since I was this close to losing a new patient. I did put into the patient instructions that I recommended tetanus, shingles and Covid vaccinations. I feel like I am banging my head against a brick wall. While the hospital physicians are actively treating Covid, I am stuck here trying to argue a hopeless case.
Holy cow, I feel like banging my head against a wall on your behalf.
This, possibly arguably, belongs here in the Covidiot thread:
Pfizer brand-names their newly-FDA-approved vaccine “Comirnaty”:
(In contrast, word is leaking out that Moderna, when their vax is fully approved, will call it “SpikeVax”.)
So we’ve got a person who thinks that you can’t be trusted to provide accurate medical information, but who also thinks that you shouldn’t be allowed to deprive them of your medial services? Truly this is a dizzying intellect.
The juxtaposition of comedy and Russian ops gives me a mental image of the Moscow Troll Farm requiring the trolls to get vaccinated in order to keep their jobs spreading vaccine disinformation to the West.
medical, not medial…
Oh, the pain…
Trump Supporters Were Asked If They Got Vaccinated And You Know What Happened Next (yahoo.com)
The woman who got to say the most trusted Sherri Tenpenny more than she trusted her own doctor. (Her doctor advised her to be vaccinated.) She doesn’t trust the FDA or the CDC or ‘any of them’. Despite the Pfizer vaccine being fully approved, she says there needs to be more testing. (She suggested ten years.) When the reporter said Trump was vaccinated, she was like ‘That’s what they tell you. I don’t think he was.’ (This, in spite of Trump himself saying a couple of times that he’s been vaccinated.)
That relative who empties the wastebaskets at East Side General Hospital has seen a lot, let me tell you.