Distancing from the vaccinated: Viral anti-vaccine infertility misinfo reaches new extremes

[Nevilledog]

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A popular new anti-vax narrative posits that just being in the same room with vaccinated people will cause fertility issues because of “shedding”

Those who believe it are now asking the vaccinated not to enter their stores. My latest with @BrandyZadrozny

Distancing from the vaccinated: Viral anti-vaccine infertility misinfo reaches new extremes
"You can't fact-check someone's personal experience," said one expert. "With Instagram stories, people share their testimony, and the first round of it feels so intimate and immediate."
nbcnews.com
7:58 AM · May 14, 2021

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/viral-vaccine-infertility-misinformation-finds-home-social-media-n1267310

April Glaser is a reporter on the tech investigations team for NBC News in San Francisco.Brandy Zadrozny is a senior reporter for NBC News. She covers misinformation, extremism and the internet.
May 14, 2021, 3:00 AM MST / Updated May 14, 2021, 9:16 AM MST
Yehuda Goldberg, owner of Brothers Butcher Shoppe in Ontario, updated the Covid-19 guidelines for people visiting his meat shop this month. He posted on Instagram that he would ask vaccinated people not to come in to protect his female customers.

"We have decided that since the majority of our customers are women and since women are most at risk for these side effects, we ask that if you've been vaccinated to please order for curbside pickup or delivery for 28 days after being vaccinated," .

The reason, Goldberg said, is that evidence is surfacing that people who have been vaccinated are "shedding spike proteins," which appears to be affecting women's menstrual cycles. While medical experts say that isn't true, Goldberg said that what he's reading shows that just being around someone who has been vaccinated can cause reproductive health issues for women and that he doesn't want to endanger any of his female customers.

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[Grokenstein]

1. I'll be more than happy to not visit stores run by morons.

Let's watch 'em either (1) give it up and drop the charade or (2) go out of business and start sucklin' that sweet sweet socialism they're always yelling against.

I wonder if this fool is going to demand proof of non-vax status.

[marybourg]

2. Same kind of claims as made by Taliban. Figures.

[FakeNoose]

3. Here's the crazy rumor that will make a difference

"Women won't sleep with men who aren't vaccinated."

[panader0]

4. An old band mate laid that "shedding" bs on me when I went to play music at his place.

"You've had your shots huh? Don't be shedding here now." I didn't know what he meant
until I looked it up later and saw that, like many other anti-vax ideas, it is BS.

[smirkymonkey]

5. What is this anti-vaxxer "shedding" BS?

You shed the actual virus, you don't "shed" antibodies. What the hell are they talking about? It makes no sense.

[Klaralven]

7. AFAIK, it works like this

The mRNA vaccine is converted to DNA by reverse transcriptase. The DNA is incorporated into the vaccinated persons genome. The DNA then produces more mRNA in great quantities. The mRNA then produces the spike protein in great quantities. The vaccinated person "sheds" the excess spike protein and it is absorbed by nearby females. Once in the nearby female victims, the spike protein mimics a placental protein. The female victim creates antibodies against the placental protein which makes the female infertile. It's all a part of the plot by socialists to make conservative women infertile.

Actually, it doesn't work like that, but that's the conspiracy theory being advanced.

[smirkymonkey]

8. Where to they come up with this nonsense?

I mean, that takes some serious Dunning-Kruger type of confidence to invent such an idiotic conspiracy theory.

The mRNA vaccines do not affect or interact with our DNA in any way. mRNA never enters the nucleus of the cell, which is where our DNA (genetic material) is kept. The cell breaks down and gets rid of the mRNA soon after it is finished using the instructions. It isn't possible for the vaccine to be "converted" into DNA and proteins don't "shed". What they are claiming is not scientifically possible.

I swear, this country is going collectively mad. Too many people believe every single thing they read on Facebook.

[Klaralven]

10. "What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence." Christopher Hitchens

[Klaralven]

6. It it keeps the unvaccinated in their own pod, I'm all for it.

[stillcool]

9. got to wonder about the quality of his meat.

[d_r]

11. our secret liberal evil agenda

to stop the right wingers from reproducing is beginning to work. Stage two begins when the unvaccinated masks come off -

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210513/coronavirus-lingers-in-penis-and-could-cause-impotence?src=rss_public#1

It was a master plan to get them to expose themselves.

[Crunchy Frog]

12. Sad to see batshit insanity taking hold in Canada.

I'm happy to know which businesses to avoid like the plague pits that they are.