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Floyd R. Turbo

(30,082 posts)
Tue Feb 11, 2025, 06:16 PM Feb 11

An acquaintance of my wife was told by her ophthalmologist that her cataracts are likely caused by the Covid vaccines.

And she and her husband are dumb enough to believe it!

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Midnight Writer

(23,616 posts)
3. Fella near me tells me since he has had COVID 4 times, the vaccine will kill him.
Tue Feb 11, 2025, 06:36 PM
Feb 11

He tells me his doctor say he has so many anti-COVID antibodies from the four times he has been infected that the "antibodies in the vaccine" will overload his system and he would drop dead immediately.

Seems to me if all the antibodies from his first 3 infections didn't stop the 4th infection than maybe he doesn't have "too many antibodies".

I don't know if he actually believes this claptrap or if he is just full of shit. I am certain his doctor did not tell him he will drop dead from a COVID shot. I reckon he doesn't want to get the "ouchy" so he made up an excuse and now he believes his own bullshit.

SWBTATTReg

(25,077 posts)
5. Well, it looks like the MAGAs are not going to get shots etc., being that they deem them dangerous...are going to start
Tue Feb 11, 2025, 07:11 PM
Feb 11

getting sick and dying, just like they did when tRUMP ignored COVID the first time around and so many of them died back then.

Here we go again...what is that saying, that if you wait long enough, that history repeats itself? I could be mean and say that some deserve ignoring the shots, deeming that they're dangerous, but I won't.

A lot of us know the truth about vaccines and know the benefits of them. And will continue to get the shots as needed. A good call on their part. Don't let anybody else's fake excuses distract you ... get the shots, get your family and friends to get the shots. And then, unfortunately, sit back and watch a lot of unfortunate people die simply for the lack of taking the vaccine...by the time they discover that they are sick, it's too late for the vaccine by then. I remember some back in the day, moaning that they wished that they had gotten the COVID shots, but didn't and as a result, were the hospital, dying or very sick.

livetohike

(23,356 posts)
16. Same here. I was the last cataract surgery my Ophalmologist
Wed Feb 12, 2025, 08:40 PM
Feb 12

had before everything was shut down.

Figarosmom

(5,042 posts)
8. This
Wed Feb 12, 2025, 01:46 AM
Feb 12

What kind of eye doctor doesn't know what causes cataracts? Gotta be at the bottom of his class or a fake. Self certified like Rand Paul.

Hekate

(97,011 posts)
9. My ophthalmologist warned me for several years that cataracts were forming but said I had plenty of time...
Wed Feb 12, 2025, 05:04 AM
Feb 12

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Finally took care of it last summer and am delighted with the results. It would never have occurred to me that vaccines had anything to do with cataracts. Both my late parents had the surgery, and they were dead of old age before COVID existed. Same with my husband’s mother.

I think I’d change doctors.

True Dough

(22,522 posts)
10. Cataracts? She got off easy!
Wed Feb 12, 2025, 05:41 AM
Feb 12

I remember arguing with several right-wingers over the past few years about a few famous people, particularly athletes in the prime of life, dying suddenly. The MAGAts insisted the Covid vaccine was responsible each and every time.

It's hard to overcome their PhDs in internet research!

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