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[–] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 60 points 10 months ago (3 children)

cue antivaxxers' pro-plague and pro-death screeching 🤦‍♂️

[–] deft@ttrpg.network 29 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Any day now those vaxxed will drop dead!!

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I often go by a place were somebody tagged the wall with something that roughly translates to "Half the vaccinated will die".

So half will not? Ever?

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The other half becomes vampires, obviously.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So, the 5G mind controller chips in it do make sense after all.

[–] PopShark@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

It’s an easy issue to resolve, really. Just install garlic frequency beams to our 5g towers and boom solved the vampire crisis

[–] psud@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Exactly.

Whomever did that tag didn't think enough to notice they're implying that the vaccine gives ethernal life to half those who take it.

(It also neatly illustrates how simplifying one's idea down to a slogan actually increases the chance of ending up implying something else than the idea one wanted to pass)

[–] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Does that mean I won't have to go to work anymore or will they find a way to indenture and monetize my corpse?

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Capital zombies. I don't think I've seen that movie done....

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

Well if we wait long enough, they will! See! We were right all along!

[–] nepenthes@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Haha, but if we do, they will follow in a gross and painful fashion: In Canada, 83% of the population received at least one dose. I believe we are ~~39M~~ 40M now (lol, I was sleeping).

So 6,800,000 gonna keep the electricity going; grow and process food; and perform medical procedures? --Oh wait, all the medical people are dead. Speaking of dead, there aren't any firemen to dispose of the bodies! Damn, biohazard everywhere. I'm assuming their edjumacashun didn't be gud, so I'm not hopeful of their prospects for rebuilding, but I suspect rage will take them out before it gets to that point anyways.

Edit: Math is hard

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Surelly at least the food problem and the bodies problem can be solved at the same time by resorting to cannibalism?!

With a bit of luck the vaxxed would drop dead in early Winter, which would help preserve the meat longer.

What's the proportion of the overweight in Canada? I'm thinking maybe the energy problem too can be solved with a proper use of all that fat.

[–] butterflyattack@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

"It's God's will!"

[–] arc@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I was browsing LinkedIn before Christmas and a person popped up in my feed who spent the entire pandemic over on Twitter posting misinformation. This POS dressed up the misinfo as if it were science & statistics even though it was obviously distorted and cherry picked nonsense. He had hundreds of thousands of followers so I think it is reasonable to assume people died as a result of his garbage.

In the UK there is a law called the Cancer Act which was enacted in the 30s to ban advertising or selling of quack cures for cancer and give some means to prosecute offenders. I really wish that act were modernised to ban advertisement or promotion of quackery for any disability, chronic / terminal condition or contagious disease.