Russia coronavirus vaccine 'Sputnik V' safe despite no clinical trials, says Putin

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Antivaxxers are equal opportunity murderers. On the left are the “body purity, antiPharma” crunchy granolas, on the right are the “health freedom, aborted fetus, DNA modification, tracking chip” conspiracy theorists. They agree on noting other than vaccine is bad, and apparently dead babies are OK in comparison.

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So why didn’t Putin himself get it?

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Sorry, Vladimir, but I prefer my vaccines without polonium.

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I wonder if this is one of those “Vaccine is safer than questioning safety of vaccine, yes?” Significant Eyebrow type occasions…

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/s

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Anyone who believes in both-siderism has a very immature analysis of politics. There’s more than two sides to the Republicans alone, and the Democrats are even more diverse. Anti-vaxxers are all over the political spectrum.

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“The vaccine! It does nothing!” *

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*Satirical comment about this specific one that lacks clinical trials. Not vaccines in general.

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No worries:

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What gets rapidly meta-agitprop’y here is that Putin is also behind spreading anti-vax stuff (ref1 ref2 ref3) For the ultimate nerd metaphor, in star-wars the evil sith lord was both promoting the civil war and fighting it – keep everyone in turmoil and pick up the pieces later.

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I assume someone told Duterte Harry that clinical trials were also a form of due process that stand in the way of Getting Things Done™ and he was all for it.

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Looks like the preferred soft drink of white nationalists.

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The contradictory messaging is deliberate. Putin wants headlines saying that Russia is first with a vaccine, but he also wants it to look as if they are doing things properly.

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Yeah. Right. To be incredibly kind, I think Duterte is confusing “guinea pig” with “non-historical control subject”.

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Makes me wonder if he’ll try to get the vaccine into some people w/o their knowing.

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Remember that Putin is just as untrustworthy as Trump. The difference is, Vladimir Vladimirovich lies deliberately, with a purpose, and is aware of the reality even if he wants to deny it.

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On a lead injection device with polonium adjuvant? Sounds on point.

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And so begins the zombie apocalypse.

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So then you’re recommending we let Trump try it?

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Chess vs Tic Tac Toe

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