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[–] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 63 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The title bothers me. He still is totally fine, but he was, too.

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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 57 points 2 years ago (2 children)

He's totally fine, plus now he can pick up radio signals from all over the known universe.

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

With that many shots, he is basically a 5G tower at this point.

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[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Also legally allowed to walk around in public telling people "touch me child and be cleansed".

[–] turkishdelight@lemmy.ml 49 points 2 years ago (4 children)

If you get 216 covid shots, something is clearly not fine.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

My elderly mother-in-law was terrified of COVID and made it a point to get two extra booster shots a few weeks after she got her original dose. She goes back every three months to re-up. I suspect she'd get more if the Pharmacy didn't have her on file.

Some people are just, like, the opposite of anti-maskers. Absolutely paranoid of the disease and ready to grab at any kind of tulpa offered if they're convinced it'll offer protection.

[–] reversebananimals@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

This guy is calling people "Grandpa Biden" as an insult in other threads. I wouldn't take what he has to say about COVID too seriously. He's clearly a Fox News nutjob.

[–] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Perhaps she has "Hypochondria?" Who knows how many people/lives in her life that was affected by COVID. At least this article provides some confirmation that she isn't hurting herself.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Perhaps she has “Hypochondria?”

Or she's just on Facebook too much. She's not like this with everything, but COVID really got under her skin.

At least this article provides some confirmation that she isn’t hurting herself.

No more than someone with a bunch of tattoos, anyway.

[–] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's a fair point. Unfortunately, there is still plenty of posts of antivax people dying from deaths that could have been prevented. Which coincides with the fact that the platform is incredibly anitivax in the first place.

I personally don't understand the tattoo reference here but have an up vote anyways. 🤷‍♀️

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I personally don’t understand the tattoo reference

You typically get a tattoo by having a needle jabbed in your body repeatedly.

[–] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Wow, considering the headline I really should have gotten the reference. 😔 Thank you.

[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Or she’s just on Facebook too much. She’s not like this with everything, but COVID really got under her skin

In her defense, Ive had covid 3 times and it really sucked every single time, even with the 3 shots I got. If taking 6 shots would have made it half as bad, I may have gotten them.

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[–] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] TheDoctorDonna@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Something you believe in so strongly it becomes real.

[–] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

It means you're one of the 99% who stop right before winning

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] PopcornTin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Stop being antivax!

[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 45 points 2 years ago

I am from Germany, and the last time I hear about that someone got 217 vaccine shots it was satire because some places offers free food if you get a shot. And he said: "I was just hungry"

[–] Alpha71@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I get angry whenever someone pushes that "They lied to you" bullshit. I just tell them "well tell that to my fucked up heart and lungs."

[–] doubletwist@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago

Or my dead-at-16yrs nephew.

[–] The_wild_card@lemmy.today 20 points 2 years ago

Wow he really liked those shots

[–] formergijoe@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well that's because he hasn't gotten the Bill Gates' microchip vaccine grown in the same peach tree dishes as his burgers administered by Biden's Gazpacho police and activated by the Jewish space lasers!

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

You bastard, you almost made me laugh hard enough to wake my girlfriend 🤣

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm more curious to know if he ever got COVID or if it actually got him so many antibodies that he never actually got sick

[–] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

~~The researchers did a bunch of tests and determined that he never had COVID, though they cannot attribute that to 217 boosters specifically. They noted that it could’ve been isolation, hand washing, etc.~~

Better to quote directly from the article:

Last, multiple types of testing indicated that the man has never been infected with SARS-CoV-2. But the researchers were cautious to note that this may be due to other precautions the man took beyond getting 217 vaccines.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To be fair, you have to sit at home since 2019 in order to be cautious enough not to catch it without protection :D

[–] SomeoneElse@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Myself, my partner, mum, dad and my grandma have never caught it. We follow the government advice so haven’t been wearing masks for over a year now.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You're probably vaccinated then, aren't you?

I'm talking about being non-vaccinated :D

[–] SomeoneElse@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh sorry, I thought by protection you meant masks and social distancing. It’s been a long week! Yes we’re all vaccinated. I’m immunosuppressed so they weren’t sure if my body would respond but apparently so!

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 3 points 2 years ago

Good to know it worked! Saved me too, lived with two covid patients :D

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[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Good thing there's an article

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I guess that is the second article from wired I've read this month and the first one was free. I only got the first paragraph before a paywall.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Understandable, no he never got COVID

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Interesting, thanks for letting me know.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No problem. Sorry I was being short before.

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

No worries, I usually search on archive for the article if it has a paywall but I asked in the comments instead.

[–] RoyalEngineering@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Same for me but I used https://12ft.io/

[–] CapillaryUpgrade@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

Same for me. You can bypass it if you read in a "private browsing" window.

[–] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Well that's one way to host a networked nanite symbiote.

He is Borg now.

[–] fraichu@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Wow. This opens up a possibility that we can keep exercising our immune system and study the long term effects of that. What if there was a weekly schedule of all diseases to practice immune response against!

[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

How did no one notice he taking like a shot about every 3-4 days on average? Does that even make any sense? The more you try to parse it. Like, no one in his family noticed? Nor his Doctor? Did he travel around the world or to different countrues to get all of them? Since most countries do not have them all.

Looked into the guy, there is official evidence for 134 of the vaccinations, which include eight different types of vaccines authorized for human use. The remaining are self-reported. But still, guess no one cares or bothers to notice if you are pushing product.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What do you mean by pushing product?

[–] Liz@midwest.social 6 points 2 years ago

Hey kids, you wanna try vaccines?

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