Posted on 10/18/2021 8:46:00 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Fox News anchor John Roberts deleted a tweet on Monday that suggested former Secretary of State Colin Powell's death from COVID-19 complications raises "new concerns" about the long-term efficacy of inoculation.
Powell's family announced his death in a statement that also said the 84-year-old had been fully vaccinated.
He also reportedly had been diagnosed from multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer that weakens the body’s ability to protect against infections.
Roberts's deleted tweet said "the fact that Colin Powell died from a breakthrough COVID infection raises new concerns about how effective vaccines are long-term."
It was met with an immediate backlash online, where plenty of those responding noted that Powell's age and specific health history put him at a higher risk for COVID-19.
In a series of follow-up tweets, Roberts explained he'd deleted the tweet because it had been interpreted as being "anti-vax."
Roberts said he had encouraged people to get vaccines and that he also though booster shots could be important.
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His raisin-like testes shriveled even further and detached, which enabled a Tardigrade in his now stained underpants to consume them in Robert's panicked flight.
Have you ever taken the influenza vaccine, and gotten the ‘flu anyway?
Anyone with much sense knows that no vaccine is going to protect everyone - we’re not all biologically the same, cut like cookies from the same dough.
I don’t care if people don’t want to take the vaccine - I believe that it’s their God-given right to refuse.
But I don’t like seeing specious arguments against it, either.
It wasn’t an ‘argument’. It was a question.
I don’t think it was the vaccine that eradicated smallpox. It was the herd immunity to which the vaccine contributed.
Some interesting stuff about smallpox (which vaccine has it’s own severe risks for susceptible people):
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1069029/
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/researchersseek.html
>> It wasn’t an ‘argument’. It was a question.
“have you stopped beating your wife?” is characteristically a question too.
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