Covid vaccine myths

[Magical Realist]

https://www.news10.com/news/myths-about-...btPryO0kCk

[C C]

https://www.news10.com/news/myths-about-...btPryO0kCk

Myth: COVID-19 vaccines contain tracking microchips or “nanotransducers”

The COVID-19 vaccines do not contain tracking microchips or “nano transducers” that control the brain or can download personal information. The Mayo Clinic said this myth became active after Bill Gates referenced a “digital certificate of vaccine records.”

Heh.

[confused2]

I see masks not being effective turns up in the top retractions of 2020 which CC linked to on another thread
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opini...2020-68284
Bad news for libertarians.

The same week as the Lancet and NEJM Surgisphere retractions, the Annals of Internal Medicine backtracked on a highly-cited paper it published in April that purported to find that masks were ineffective at preventing the spread of SARS-CoV-2. The article, which became a media—and social media—star, was woefully light on data, based in fact on just four subjects.

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I'm not sure to what extent our pet tame libertarian can be relied on as a source of misinformation however:

https://www.scivillage.com/thread-9351-p...l#pid39491
Syne from 22nd Nov 2020

Hospitals are not being overwhelmed in the US.

https://www.newsweek.com/video-shows-cal...es-1556962

The video, shared with Newsweek on December 23, shows patients lying in medical beds in the hallways of Kaiser Permanente's Downey and Fontana medical centers.
Even more patients were outside the hospitals hooked up to oxygen tanks while sitting under tents.

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Oooo - Vaccine myths - not just myths - sorry.
I have got one...
I'm hoping to be among the first to be vaccinated.

[Zinjanthropos]

Price gouging no myth. Had to go out and grab some things this a.m. and there’s a retail chain that advertises discounts for seniors on Thursdays, so needless to say there were none today. In fact many prices inflated. Didn’t affect me but front checkouts had many complaining to a manager and leaving carts full of merchandise at checkouts, customers just walking away. Heard manager say that supplies weren’t keeping up during this time. Poor bugger only following head office lead I think. Pretty funny. Economics 101... supply & demand. Bad timing however.