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No, COVID-19 vaccines don’t suppress your immune system—here's the science (news.immunologic.org)

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A recent preprint, “Immunological and Antigenic Signatures Associated with Chronic Illnesses after COVID-19 Vaccination” has fueled anti-COVID-19 vaccine rhetoric. It is being circulated by anti-vaccine advocates as proof that COVID-19 vaccines cause immunodeficiency and therefore, their claims for the past 5 years are validated.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

That is what I was thinking as well. If someone gets all of their medical information from Facebook, "showing them the science" would probably be counter productive.

It's not a lost cause all the time. I convinced my neighbors to get their COVID vaccination, but it took time and I had to strategically counter any conspiracy theories they had heard. One trick I like is to make them sound stupid in a way they realize that they sound stupid, without insulting or degrading them.

Conspiracy theories are usually built on extremely fragile false assumptions and coated in numerous layers of bullshit. If you get lucky, you can just kick the foundation and the rest of the story falls apart.