Mildly Infuriating

The extremelyinfuriating part: these people vote.

They've been working on a COVID vaccine since the SARS epidemic, but that fact won't stop the stupid.

The thing that bothers me the most about (mostly right-wing) anti-covid propaganda is that they use the argument that it was rushed to market. The vaccines were rushed to market thanks to an FDA emergency provision that removed a lot of the "red tape" that companies normally have to go through to get any medical item into the hands and/or bodies of consumers.

So many right-wing politicians campaign on the promise of removing red tape and getting rid of these things that protect all of us. This is literally what they say they want.

Chalk another one up for right wing hypocrisy, I suppose...

• 1. Vaccines against coronavirus have been in development for decades. The urgency for them really ticked up with in the early 2000's with SARS coronavirus floating around. Also the tech for quickly developing mRNA vaccines has been in the works since the 80's.
• 2. HIV is a very different virus and we do have pretty good treatments to prevent infection (prep) and stop HIV from becoming AIDS. I have someone in my family that has had HIV for decades and he is going to die from old age, not AIDS.
• 3. Cancer, like a broken leg, is not a virus. It's an entirely different medical problem.

The worst part about this is that the MRNA tech used in the COVID vaccine was developed specifically to make cancer vaccines.

Why the fuck are these idiots so weirdly obsessed with Gates. He's a fuckin' retired OS monger, not a supermegapolyscientist

There are two reasons for no AIDS vaccine: 1) it’s very hard to make a vaccine for a virus that targets the immune system and 2) it’s very hard to make a vaccine for a virus that is primarily associated with a group that one political party has a contingent that wants that group dead

https://www.hiv.gov/blog/encouraging-first-in-human-results-for-a-promising-hiv-vaccine/

An HIV vaccine is in human trials

They found a 100% effective way to place microchips on our bodies within just 10 months? Damn, I didn't know science had advanced that much.

Ignorance appears to be like rabies in at least one way, once it rots enough of your brain you become fearful of anything and everything around you.

"Things I don't understand make me scared!"

In fact, there are vaccines against some cancer types. There's a virus, which is responsible for almost all womb cancer cases. Here in Germany, the vaccine is free, if you're under 20 iirc.

I like the suggestion that cancer only existed for 100 years

I'm mad, but for the wrong reason. I'm mad we haven't invested enough in research for cures to other things.

One of the worst parts is that there are many valid reasons to criticize Bill Gates with regards to the COVID vaccine (mainly as it pertains to his intellectual property crusade leading to a few companies getting to dictate the rollout and screwing over the Global South in the process), but it's all drowned out by these idiots screaming about microchips.

Both my parents didn't want the vaccine because they were scared of side effects. Both of them have multiple chronic diseases . My dad lungs are basically dead from chaine smoking for 50+ years. They miraculously survived getting coronavirus twice.....

I mean there's been so much research towards AIDS that it's not the death sentence that it was in the 80s.

However, there probably would have been even more progress had Reagan not stifled progress

Vaccines are typically meant to protect against viruses or bacteria. Cancer is neither of those. hiv is a virus but the political will to produce effective treatments was not always there. I think a lot of young people underestimate the homophobia that was pervasive not all that long ago and how it was tied to the aids epidemic.

How can they even compare them? Nobody even suggested that COVID is similar to the other two. Cancer isn't even a virus and left to their own devices COVID is probably the less dangerous one.

Also cancer isn't just a single disease, there are multiple conditions that can lead to cancer and they all have different chances of survival.

I like how they just added those question marks with a pen

The best thing for my family was that we were in St Jude with our daughter while the rest of the world lost their minds. I was able to speak directly to Infectious Disease doctors that had nothing to do with anything but researching for cancer patients. They had worked with the original doctors for the Covid vaccine, and how long it had been in development as we learned more about the disease. People were just going off ignorance. Just because you don't know, doesn't mean everyone else is trying to lie to you.

I hate people who are unwilling to learn and even proud of it

Does this person think cancer is a virus?

No vaccine against stupidity either. Coincidence?

I thought we were all supposed to drop dead in 2 years, the cookers were all banging on about that at one point when they weren't punching horses and thinking the government used laser weapons on them and not that they got sunburnt from spending the day in the sun "protesting"

AiDS destroys the immune system, you CAN'T make a vaccine for it.