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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The title bothers me. He still is totally fine, but he was, too.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This reads like a Mitch Hedberg quote.

"I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to too."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He's totally fine, plus now he can pick up radio signals from all over the known universe.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With that many shots, he is basically a 5G tower at this point.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Also legally allowed to walk around in public telling people "touch me child and be cleansed".

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (4 children)

If you get 216 covid shots, something is clearly not fine.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My elderly mother-in-law was terrified of COVID and made it a point to get two extra booster shots a few weeks after she got her original dose. She goes back every three months to re-up. I suspect she'd get more if the Pharmacy didn't have her on file.

Some people are just, like, the opposite of anti-maskers. Absolutely paranoid of the disease and ready to grab at any kind of tulpa offered if they're convinced it'll offer protection.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

This guy is calling people "Grandpa Biden" as an insult in other threads. I wouldn't take what he has to say about COVID too seriously. He's clearly a Fox News nutjob.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Perhaps she has "Hypochondria?" Who knows how many people/lives in her life that was affected by COVID. At least this article provides some confirmation that she isn't hurting herself.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Perhaps she has “Hypochondria?”

Or she's just on Facebook too much. She's not like this with everything, but COVID really got under her skin.

At least this article provides some confirmation that she isn’t hurting herself.

No more than someone with a bunch of tattoos, anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Something you believe in so strongly it becomes real.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Stop being antivax!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It means you're one of the 99% who stop right before winning

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago

I am from Germany, and the last time I hear about that someone got 217 vaccine shots it was satire because some places offers free food if you get a shot. And he said: "I was just hungry"

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I get angry whenever someone pushes that "They lied to you" bullshit. I just tell them "well tell that to my fucked up heart and lungs."

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Or my dead-at-16yrs nephew.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah but I heard my cousin's friend had only one and instantly got autism.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

If to mine but every time I try to use my 5G Mark of the beast I get an error message about having to update Adobe to get my full experience

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You need to get an even number of shots. 0, 2, 4, 8... Everybody knows that. Its basic science.

At 217 this guy's in real trouble if he doesn't grab another.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Wow he really liked those shots

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well that's because he hasn't gotten the Bill Gates' microchip vaccine grown in the same peach tree dishes as his burgers administered by Biden's Gazpacho police and activated by the Jewish space lasers!

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm more curious to know if he ever got COVID or if it actually got him so many antibodies that he never actually got sick

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

~~The researchers did a bunch of tests and determined that he never had COVID, though they cannot attribute that to 217 boosters specifically. They noted that it could’ve been isolation, hand washing, etc.~~

Better to quote directly from the article:

Last, multiple types of testing indicated that the man has never been infected with SARS-CoV-2. But the researchers were cautious to note that this may be due to other precautions the man took beyond getting 217 vaccines.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair, you have to sit at home since 2019 in order to be cautious enough not to catch it without protection :D

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Myself, my partner, mum, dad and my grandma have never caught it. We follow the government advice so haven’t been wearing masks for over a year now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You're probably vaccinated then, aren't you?

I'm talking about being non-vaccinated :D

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh sorry, I thought by protection you meant masks and social distancing. It’s been a long week! Yes we’re all vaccinated. I’m immunosuppressed so they weren’t sure if my body would respond but apparently so!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Good to know it worked! Saved me too, lived with two covid patients :D

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Good thing there's an article

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I guess that is the second article from wired I've read this month and the first one was free. I only got the first paragraph before a paywall.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Understandable, no he never got COVID

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting, thanks for letting me know.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No problem. Sorry I was being short before.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

No worries, I usually search on archive for the article if it has a paywall but I asked in the comments instead.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Same for me but I used https://12ft.io/

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

How did no one notice he taking like a shot about every 3-4 days on average? Does that even make any sense? The more you try to parse it. Like, no one in his family noticed? Nor his Doctor? Did he travel around the world or to different countrues to get all of them? Since most countries do not have them all.

Looked into the guy, there is official evidence for 134 of the vaccinations, which include eight different types of vaccines authorized for human use. The remaining are self-reported. But still, guess no one cares or bothers to notice if you are pushing product.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you mean by pushing product?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Hey kids, you wanna try vaccines?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well that's one way to host a networked nanite symbiote.

He is Borg now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Come on. He got 200+ vaccine shots. That in itself says he was never fine to begin with.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When the vaccine came out and I got my first shot, I told the nurse who administered it that I would drink it in a smoothie every day if it helped us get past the pandemic. Still would.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But you haven't, have you?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Is there evidence to suggest that drinking a vaccine smoothie would help everyone get through the pandemic?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

We can't just start using a lack of evidence as justification for not doing something in a pandemic, that would be insane.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Wow. This opens up a possibility that we can keep exercising our immune system and study the long term effects of that. What if there was a weekly schedule of all diseases to practice immune response against!

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