• BorgDrone@lemmy.one
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      Also, cancer isn’t one disease but a whole class of diseases. And we actually do have vaccines that prevent certain forms of cancer, like the HPV vaccine.

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        I WONT LET MY KID GET THE HPV VACCINE. IT MEANS THEY CAN HAVE SEX WITH NO CONSEQUENCES

        • lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca
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          Ma’am, pregnancy is still a consequence of sex as you obviously should know after having 5 kids.

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            if she grew up with a certain kind of religious education, it’s possible she still might not have drawn that particular connection

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        There is also a lung cancer vaccine made in Cuba, called CimaVax (I think).

        There’s some hurdles to getting it though, depending on where you are.

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        Also, they have had quite a bit of success using quick and custom mRNA vaccines to fight cancer. We very well may see this as a result of Covid.

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      Also, the amount of computational power that was made available for COVID research was recorded breaking.

      If you were on Folding@home at that time, they couldn’t get enough WU out fast enough for a while. Gamers really showed up and helped.

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        I always found the tracking chip conspiracy stuff to be particularly funny. Unfortunately, I never personally met any whackos that believed it.

        The best method for very accurately tracking them was the thing they likely used to post about the COVID vaccine tracking you.