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hhas01 | 5 years ago

Please name a vaccine that is injected into your bloodstream.

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nkohari|5 years ago

It's good to see that HN continues to find ways to increase pedantry! You know what I meant, intramuscularly.

hhas01|5 years ago

“You know what I meant”

No. I am not a mindreader. And “vaccines are injected into the bloodstream” is a standard antivax lie.

Yes there’s a risk in receiving a vaccine, just as there’s a risk in receiving any prophylactic/therapeutic treatment, but severe side-effects are closer to 1-in-100K to 1-in-a-million. Compared to a disease that is currently killing 2-in-100, with significant sequelae likely much higher.

I’m happy to accept that “bloodstream” was a slip of the tongue, but really try not to make those malignant lying bastards’ jobs any easier, when people die because of them.