Yes, there are multiple meaning to the phrase. No I didn’t click all the links that were shown. Be careful looking up stuff on the internet.
But it does include the time on South Park in 2019 that Cartman didn’t want to get his vaccination shot. Which leads to him almost being thrown out of school (remember those days?), and he uses this to negotiate the exclusive use of the volleyball for the next six months.
Of course, he escapes the doctor trying to give him his shots. Again.
Why do people hate shots and vaccinations?
25% of [ep[;e are terrified of the needles.
Some people are afraid of the pain.
I’ve had many, many, many, many, many vaccines and I can tell you my experience.
Many.
In fact the last 2 I got were the Shingles second shot in October, and the flu shot in October.
Let’s talk about the fear of needles. While tatted with full sleeves and choker.
Sometimes it is an irrational fear.
Sometimes it does hurt.
But the hurt always goes away. The hurt is cause by the inflammation of the immune system response to what it thinks as an invader.
The hurt is a good thing. It means that the immune system is activated and will learn the often inactive microbe that was in the vaccine.
When I was giving covid vaccine shots in 2020 and 2021 many people were afraid of the needle.
But they still rolled up their sleeves.
Often I would administer the shot and the patient would ask when would I give the shot. Only to be amazed that it was already done. For the very fearful, I advised them to close their eyes.
These vaccine clinics often led to the how much is it going to hurt question.
Fair enough question.
I would engage in conversation with these people and ask them if they had ever had a tetanus shot, specifically the Tdap, or a flu shot. When they indicated they had, I would tell them that the covid shot hurt less than the tetanus shot and more than a flu shot. With a point of reference, they would nod and allow me to administer the hot.
There is another reason for mentioning the Tdap.
Babies are dying.
According to an article from CIDRAP from the University of Michigan, three infants have died of pertussis aka whooping cough in Kentucky. They were not vaccinated. This is the loss of herd immunity as overall vaccination rates are 90%, well under the herd immunity threshold of 95%.
There have been 2 dead babies in Texas. For the same reason.
The first thing I looked for in the X location transparency that dropped this week was the location of anti-vaxxer bots.
Okay, first I giggled and then I looked.
There wasn’t a lot of information. Most of it was around the bots in the red hats. There were some bots in blue hats. All are to blame here. But the red hatted bots WAY outnumbered the blue hatted bots and from such interesting locations as Asia and African countries.
This 99% accuracy as touted by X is stunning.
But, like most things these days, take with a grain of salt.
But babies are dying because of the inaction of their parents and doctors, fueled by lies from the department of health and human services secretary. They have a new accomplice in the CDC. Which takes vaccine providers to task by not being able to prove a negative.
But babies are dying and will continue to die because of misinformation and lies that have been passed down like grandmothers’ wedding china.
Just like women who are continuing to die under draconian anti abortion laws.
This is nothing to laugh at.
After all, a vaccination is just a little prick.
Dispatches from the Evening Shift 