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Please name a vaccine that is injected into your bloodstream.

• nkohari 6y ago
  It's good to see that HN continues to find ways to increase pedantry! You know what I meant, intramuscularly.
  • hhas01 6y 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.
    • nkohari 6y ago
      If you had actually read what I wrote thoughtfully -- instead of falling over yourself to type a glib reply as fast as you could get it out -- it would have been easy to recognize that I am clearly not anti-vaccine, nor was I suggesting that side effects are common. I said both of those things explicitly. If your goal is actually to educate others, then educate others. Replying with snark achieves nothing but temporarily boosting your own ego.
      • hhas01 6y ago
        Yes I read your post, and yes it was poorly worded. Take the tip and move on.