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[donjohn]

Report on the vaccine injuries, I dare you

[PetitHibou]

How on earth do they figure future variants will get more severe, when there is nothing indicating that in our lived reality the last 2.5 years? Please folks, don’t abandon your common sense. It’s a highly underrated faculty. We must all endeavor to be educated, in part as a safeguard against being manipulated.

[sdeko]

Came to the UK 3 weeks ago and covid has been totally forgotten about. Not one mention on the news/Tv. They’ve moved on..
Get over it Australia. Stop scaring people…

[AlanReynolds]

it's just a mask." "It's just six feet." "It's just two weeks." "It's just non essential businesses."" It's just for the useless eaters" "It's just for non essential workers." "It's just for going into bars." "It's just for going to a restaurant" "It's just to keep from overwhelming the hospitals." "It's just to make the cases go down." "It's just to flatten the curve." "It's just a few inmates." "It's just to keep others from getting scared." "It's just for a few more weeks." "It's just a few more months" "It's just for a few more years" "It's just for going into church.” "It's just a small bracelet." "It's just a phone app." "It's just for tracing." It's just for tracking " " It's just more dying people " "It's just for the greater good" "It's just to let others know you're safe to be around." "It's just to let others know who you've been in contact with." "It's just a few more deaths." "It's just for large gatherings" "It's just a few violent protests." "It's just a vaccine." "It's just 2 vaccines" "It's just 3 vaccines" "It's just 4 vaccines" "It's just a little microchip." "It's just a blood test." "It's just a scam." "It's just for medical information." "It's just a vaccination certificate." "It's just like credit cards." "It's just a few places that don't take cash." "It's just so you can travel." "It's just so you can get your driver's license." "It's just so you can vote." "It's just 200, 000 more cases" "It's just another 400, 000 doses" " It's just more booster shots" "It's just another booster shot" "It's just more variants" " It's just another scientific study" "It's just another injection in your body" "It's just more studies" "It's just to not let people make their own decisions" "It's just for people with underlying causes" "It's just more lies from the CDC" "It's just more lies from the FDA" "It's just more vaccine mandates" "It's just Fauci lieing" "It's just about get the vaccination or lose your job" "It's just the Omicron BA2 variant" "It's just no scientific evidence to back this claim" "It's just until it doesn't become a threat" "It's just time to take out these tyrannical dictators" "It's just (The New World Order.)

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[jozefgoethals]

We are vaccinating to protect us against the virus but the virus is vaccinating too to protect it against our vaccins and immune system.
And the virus has much better vaccines

[TestUserTestUser-ycvm]

conventional wisdom is that you don't vaccinate into an ongoing epidemic, because this will create a wave of evasive variants !

[annmareemillerholistichealth]

So glad the comments are switched on. Dr John Campbell, Dr Prasad and many others have done excellent reviews of all the mutations, research papers including the decline in hospitalisation of only the disease, not including the comorrbities. For those who want honest, non biased reviews 🙏🧘‍♀️

[axcellbase]

Putting immune pressure will generate new variants. It's common sense. Its trying to thrive and survive

[tanoz]

Africa did not have the same access to vaccines as the western world. Doctors could also prescribe medications that were banned in western world. Perhaps this is why they fared better.

[jansimpson]

They just don't give up! Turn it off folks. Your life depends on it.

[leftymuller]

ABC keeping the covid dream alive I see

[theSupertonesurf]

this was the biggest con job of all time

[danecrude]

covid19 shots are not vaccine, try to keep up.

[MoparAdventure]

How are covid variants so dangerous when then CDC drops all covid restrictions??

[geomcc]

This is not going to end till the world does ! you got to respect this virus it has the world at it mercy !

[smithgorrilugum]

The visual effects make the virus look like pretty, multicolored space flowers. I would like hug one of them.

[Seagoatsunday]

I got LONG COVID from both fking omnicon infections😭Its NOT NORMAL to get this sick EVERY THREE MONTHS!!!!

[karengiorella]

I've got long COVID. It's really difficult to live with. The extreme fatigue. The amplification of my pre existing chronic pain and fibro. I was in four car accidents in my 20's. Debilitating. Eight months later and having breathing issus. Praying for a breakthrough treatment/cure. There are millions just like me. Going for heart tests because of heart arrhythmia. Never had heart issues before. I'm 52 and feel like I'm 80. I'm praying for relief. I want to go back to school. Not to the doctors.

[drewmclean]

Loving the graphics. Covid is so cool when presented like an arcade game. How much money was spent on this art installation?

[josephinebcmpatrick]

If you want non frightening, factual Information, listen to Dr John Campbell, on You Tube.