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.
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.
