Most common MAGA antivaxxer response is to deny that the FDA has actually approved it

[Nevilledog]

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Arieh Kovler
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Aug 24, 2021
The most common MAGA antivaxxer response I've seen is to deny that the FDA has actually approved it. They're insisting that the FDA has only extended the existing Emergency Use Authorization and that the media is lying.

Problem with this theory: the FDA's website says they approved it...

FDA Approves First COVID-19 Vaccine
FDA approved the first COVID-19 vaccine, now marketed as Comirnaty, for the prevention of COVID-19 disease in individuals 16 years of age and older.
fda.gov

..or does it? A theory being pushed by Steve Bannon on his War Room show and that's spreading in MAGA and QAnon circles is that the FDA approved a different, future Pfizer vaccine that hasn't been made yet, but the current vaccine is still only under a EUA.
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Antivaxxers invested a lot of capital in the "experimental unapproved" line and aren't willing to bite the bullet on FDA approval. So they have to invent new fantasies.
9:33 AM · Aug 24, 2021

[Wounded Bear]

1. I've seen at least one person cite a quote from page 12 of the FDA statement...

which seems to countervene the statement on page 2 that clearly says the drug is approved.

Gaslighting and obfuscation, it's all they have.

[Nevilledog]

3. Lots of you can't trust the FDA

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Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D
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I’m looking at anti-vaccine responses to the FDA’s approval of the Pfizer vaccine to identify key talking points & narratives, and thus far the most prominent one is that you can’t trust FDA approval since they’ve previously recalled drugs that were approved. 1/
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10:24 AM · Aug 24, 2021

[Maru Kitteh]

2. FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA

And therein lies some of the problem.

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4. Covid 19 may mutate

But the virus has nothing on the anti-vaxxers and their limitless ability to shift their excuses for not getting vaccinated. As soon as one excuse is used up, two or three more are concocted to take its place. They don't want to be vaccinated. It's just that simple. I'm disengaging from any discussion with them, because they aren't operating in good faith. Enjoy your shroud, Steve Bannon.

[viva la]

6. Cowards. They're scared of needles... :)

At least that would be a rational reason, if insufficient.

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7. When they're heavily tattooed, though

Sort of argues against that position, but I've read accounts of people who've tried it.

[lagomorph777]

10. Hahahahaha!

[belpejic]

8. Oh, I'm sure that Bannon is vaccinated.

He may be an evil, sociopathic, gin-soaked goat-fucker, but he's not stupid.

[DemocraticPatriot]

11. Bbbbbbutttttt--- if they get vaccinated, they let Biden Win!!

I think it is as simple as that-- regardless of the other excuses they use.


I too have given up on them, and resigned myself to the awful consequences: that as a result of their stubborn refusals, there will be fewer GQP voters who will be able to vote in the next elections, because they will be dead. Oh the horror.

[moondust]

5. Sadists don't surrender!

Old Cynic can't rule out that they are loving all this sickness and death "thinning the herd." Not enough wars anymore to "take care" of the poor.

[lagomorph777]

9. OK - I didn't see that one coming. I figured they would just say they distrust FDA.

That's much more creative. Kudos to the idiots.