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BootinUp

(51,449 posts)
Wed Apr 15, 2026, 06:17 PM Yesterday

8 billion... 8 B I L L I O N... vaccine doses

After more than 8 billion doses administered worldwide yes, 8 BILLION, not a typo COVID-19 vaccines are now among the most extensively tested and closely monitored medical interventions in history, and they remain one of the safest ever developed.

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erronis

(24,061 posts)
1. Quite a few smallpox, measles, polio, vaccines over the years. Rfkjr and family get them, but doesn't want us to have em
Wed Apr 15, 2026, 08:44 PM
22 hrs ago

the nelm

(275 posts)
3. RFKm Jr. - the guy who snorted coke off of a toilet seat and ate roadkill...
Wed Apr 15, 2026, 09:09 PM
21 hrs ago

honestly one couldn't possibly begin to make this crap up in several lifetimes.

Midnight Writer

(25,527 posts)
2. Yet every time I read a celebrity obituary on-line, the comments are full of "It was the jab" declarations.
Wed Apr 15, 2026, 08:44 PM
22 hrs ago

I saw a poll last night that slightly more Americans think that vaccines are dangerous than think vaccines are safe.

I have no proof, but I reckon this is the voter pool that Trump's base support comes from.

NBachers

(19,485 posts)
7. I got mine this afternoon. Dear republicans: Don't get vaccinated, fuck off and die off quickly. Go extinct
Wed Apr 15, 2026, 09:19 PM
21 hrs ago

popsdenver

(2,370 posts)
8. Trump and Republicans during Covid......
Wed Apr 15, 2026, 09:25 PM
21 hrs ago

by their actions/in-actions, directly caused, and it is widely recognized by experts and scientific authorities AS FACT, that an additional 500,000 U.S. Citizens died due to them.

Trump, by delaying his followers from getting vaccinated, made an even bigger fortune for Ivanka/Jared than they would have made if he backed vaccinations.........(Ivanka/JARED took control of ALL government and private PPE in the entire U.S., and were in charge of selling it off.).....

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