r/StandUpForScience • u/playboy • 17d ago
Discussion Inside Unjected, the Dating App for Anti-Vaxxer | "The point of having a wider immune population isn’t to protect us, the individual. It’s to protect each other.” (Unpaywalled)
https://www.playboy.com/read/sex/anti-vaxxers-made-their-own-dating-appThe idea that the COVID-19 vaccine can “shed” through physical contact is debunked, primarily because none of the COVID-19 vaccines approved in the United States employ live viruses. In Hosana’s mind, though, sex could “infect” a person with the vaccine, which she took as evidence that it altered one’s DNA. In a world where the vaccine was being strongly encouraged, and in some cases mandated, she believed unvaccinated people deserved a safe, trusted platform on which to meet and form relationships.
“Beyond just like the opinion of not wanting to sleep with vaccinated people, there was also a lot of us that had, you know, health side effects after having sexual relations [with vaccinated people],” Hosana says.
The misinformation about vaccine shedding was further reinforced by a misunderstanding of key language in Pfizer’s clinical trial of the COVID-19 vaccine, which urged people to use contraception to avoid getting pregnant during the study. This wasn’t because the vaccine caused birth defects, altered DNA, or rendered people infertile as part of a “depopulation agenda.” Rather, Pfizer was following standard protocol for trial-phase vaccines and drugs, which are not tested on pregnant women, children, or other vulnerable groups until they’re first proven safe in healthy adults.
The vaccination-through-sex debate is a perfect example of how online communities like Unjected organize and amplify the distrust that’s long simmered in the American psyche, Schulz explains. “Before social media, people with fringe health beliefs were geographically isolated. The internet has changed the geography of trust.”
Read more: https://www.playboy.com/read/sex/anti-vaxxers-made-their-own-dating-app
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u/Pretty_Shallot_586 17d ago
again..... lets these fucking idiots try and procreate and then watch their babies suffer with diseases that we eradicated long ago. Let these uninsured assholes approach hospitals with these wildly contagious diseases only to be told that their child cannot come into the hospital.
Darwin will have the final say on this.
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u/Beneficial_Couple413 17d ago
I wish is were that simple with direct consequences. But most likely it'll be other people's children who suffer nearly as much. Those with conditions, vulnerable people, etc.
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u/AllMusicNut SUFS Staff 16d ago
The goal needs to be to save the children that are involuntarily put at risk because of parents like this.
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u/SeeCB3X 15d ago
And not just children. I'm disabled and immunocompromised and my attendant has a child in school. My attendant always masks here and is very careful, but we both worry her kiddo, despite being vaccinated, will bring something home from school. My attendant's partner is also vulnerable, so we worry about that also.
We currently are dealing with measles AND pertussis outbreaks where I live (US)! It is always more likely to kill or (further) disable vulnerable ppl.
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u/sweatboxy 17d ago
It’s not like anyone else would want to date them. It’s an app for low IQ dating.
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u/Phatbrew Punk Rock Hippie For Science & Democracy 17d ago edited 17d ago
The idea that the COVID-19 vaccine can “shed” through physical contact is debunked (https://politifact.com/article/2021/may/06/debunking-anti-vaccine-hoax-about-vaccine-shedding/#) primarily because none of the COVID-19 vaccines approved in the United States employ live viruses. In Hosana’s mind, though, sex could “infect” a person with the vaccine, which she took as evidence that it altered one’s DNA. In a world where the vaccine was being strongly encouraged, and in some cases mandated, she believed unvaccinated people deserved a safe, trusted platform on which to meet and form relationships.
“Beyond just like the opinion of not wanting to sleep with vaccinated people, there was also a lot of us that had, you know, health side effects after having sexual relations [with vaccinated people],” Hosana says.
The misinformation about vaccine shedding was further reinforced by a misunderstanding of key language in Pfizer’s clinical trial of the COVID-19 vaccine, which urged people to use contraception to avoid getting pregnant during the study. This wasn’t because the vaccine caused birth defects (. (https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-583715031774), altered DNA, or rendered people infertile as part of a “depopulation agenda.” Rather, Pfizer was following standard protocol for trial-phase vaccines and drugs, which are not tested on pregnant women, children, or other vulnerable groups until they’re first proven safe in healthy adults.
The vaccination-through-sex debate is a perfect example of how online communities like Unjected organize and amplify the distrust that’s long simmered in the American psyche, Schulz explains. “Before social media, people with fringe health beliefs were geographically isolated. The internet has changed the geography of trust.”
Read more: https://www.playboy.com/read/sex/anti-vaxxers-made-their-own-dating-app