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demmiblue

(36,845 posts)
Sun Aug 1, 2021, 08:58 AM Aug 2021

State TV: Russians Are Using Prosthetic Arms to Dodge COVID Jabs

Kremlin loyalists are lamenting the insane measures some Russians are taking to avoid vaccine mandates. But it’s a mess of their own making.

remlin-controlled media is deep in a massive vaccine disinfo campaign, and has been ever since COVID jabs were first introduced. The goal, from the beginning, was simple: to undermine foreign-made inoculations, and promote Russia’s COVID jabs as the very best.

But now, it seems that the fearmongering is backfiring and impeding the Kremlin’s push to vaccinate its own people. The sale of counterfeit vaccination certificates is currently the most widespread type of online fraud in Russia, and some are so desperate to dodge the jab that they’re allegedly ordering prosthetic arms to fool medical personnel.

“So far, the most f’d up story about anti-vaxxers was brought to me by a makeup effects artist who made us costumes for our last shoot. She has a workshop, where they make props and prosthetics,” Russian film producer Rosya Skrypnik tweeted last month. “Every week someone tries to order a silicone pad that could be applied to the arm, so that the vaccine would be injected into a ‘fake shoulder.’”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/state-tv-russians-are-using-prosthetic-arms-to-dodge-covid-vaccines


* The rest is behind a paywall. Here is an interesting tidbit, though:

Video of a woman violently twitching—allegedly after receiving the Pfizer jab—was played on loop across Russian airwaves & racked up millions of views.

It may soon be coming to Fox News, having been recently mentioned in a clip with Senator Ron Johnson.



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State TV: Russians Are Using Prosthetic Arms to Dodge COVID Jabs (Original Post) demmiblue Aug 2021 OP
"Prosthetic Arms" ? ? ? ? no_hypocrisy Aug 2021 #1
people may be trying it but i doubt it works.... Takket Aug 2021 #3
That what happens when you simultaniously require inniculations while knocking it in ... marble falls Aug 2021 #2
I think the most important word in there is "allegedly" Worried2020 Aug 2021 #4
What a crock of 💩 meow2u3 Aug 2021 #5

no_hypocrisy

(46,088 posts)
1. "Prosthetic Arms" ? ? ? ?
Sun Aug 1, 2021, 09:16 AM
Aug 2021

Unless the doctors/nurses/medical assistants are giving the shot through clothes, how could you get away with that? And even if you had a rolled-up sleeve or took off your shirt, the prosthetic could be obvious to the eye. Only skin and flesh look and feel like skin and flesh. Am I to believe the alcohol swab is sterilizing a pad?

marble falls

(57,080 posts)
2. That what happens when you simultaniously require inniculations while knocking it in ...
Sun Aug 1, 2021, 09:58 AM
Aug 2021

... other countries.

One of these days I'd like 45 or Jervanka to explain the confiscated respirators taken from states that paid for them, and given to Russia.

Worried2020

(444 posts)
4. I think the most important word in there is "allegedly"
Sun Aug 1, 2021, 11:06 AM
Aug 2021

.

From the OP snip . . .

"some are so desperate to dodge the jab that they’re allegedly ordering prosthetic arms to fool medical personnel"



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meow2u3

(24,761 posts)
5. What a crock of 💩
Sun Aug 1, 2021, 11:53 AM
Aug 2021

Do the russkies really expect us to believe that nurses are administering vaccinations through clothing? GTHUOH!

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