They are citing ONS figures of excess deaths as proof the vaccines are killing people. I tried to explain that not being able to get a doctor’s appointment, staying home and getting fat, etc explain the figures (official sources have said it too) but they said it’s “gaslighting” and then said their family doctor wouldn’t get the vaccine.

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    Well I guess we agree that we should respect body autonomy.

    But please be cognizant of the social consequences of not having herd immunity to protect the vulnerable and the perfectly reasonable judgement that your actions will result in the death of children, potentially including your own.

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    “If you think the world’s top scientists are trying to kill you, then why would you listen to any expert about anything? They’ll save you from yourself when you’re wrong anyway. Would you do the same for them? That’s why they’re trustworthy, and you and your sources are not.”

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    I’m often a dick. I probably wouldn’t say anything immediately, and then use that asinine opinion to dismiss anything else the person says later. Forever. They say something about <whatever topic>, “Yeah, but you also think vaccines kill people, so we already know you are an idiot.” Just on repeat on every opinion they voice, until they never want to say anything around me or talk to me.

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    in 2025? Vaccines have been available for how many years now? Why does anyone even think about COVID vaccines anymore in this year? We would have figured out any adverse effects by now if there were any.

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    Just mock them.
    “Yeah, sure. It’s all apart of Elvis’s plan to return as the antichrist.”

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    Tell them that’s completely true, and that if they keeps spreading the truth the black vans will come for them, they know to much.

    The birds have already heard the rumors, and the clock if ticking. They better do something and shut up before they end un in “the facility”.

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    Maybe not the answer you’re looking for, but I have an uncle like that.

    I suggest going no contact if you can.

    Reason being, they don’t care about facts, nothing you say will convince them.

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    Remind them abortion is illegal in many places, that women are to be awarded certificates for having a “litter”, and show them the article about the brain dead woman kept on life support for months to deliver a child slightly over one pound that now needs months in the NIC unit to survive.

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      Not deliver. They autopsied the woman to collect the baby. They had to collect it because the lady’s body was decomposing. Because she was dead. Not brain dead. Dead.

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        Thanks for pointing this out.

        It’s almost like the woman was just a lab experiment at this point, in an effort to create a baby incubator.

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          Precisely. There has been talk of using brain dead women to breed kids. For fascists that solves so many problems. Men get to be as macho as they want, get to father a bunch of kids with no women demanding rights or respect, no consent required at all. For these guys the best woman is one that barely exists at all.

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      Oh damn, I didn’t know the baby’s health was so, so bad. All that extra time of forcing “life” to still create a bad situation.

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        And the mother’s family in beaucoup medical debt, as the cherry on top of this nightmare sundae.

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    Their bullshit causes a risk that someone else hesitate or pass on vaccination. You did an attempt at convincing. The responsible alternative is to make them feel uncomfortable bringing up the subject.

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    Every time he lies about vaccines you break one of his fingers and tell him lying is bad for his health.

    Jokes aside, ask him who his doctor is, call up his doctor on speaker and ask the doctor if they’d recommend vaccines. He is almost certainly lying to you because he thinks “you believe doctors, ergo I will lie and say a doctor supports my position in an attempt to manipulate you”.