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Humanists UK @humanists.uk

Deaths from preventable illnesses are on the rise due to the spread of scientifically unfounded fears about vaccines across social media. www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/baby...

aug 31, 2025, 8:18 am • 143 66

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stevewarren209.bsky.social @stevewarren209.bsky.social

Back to the Dark Ages, because The Plague was so much damn fun!

aug 31, 2025, 8:21 pm • 0 0 • view
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Alice Hare @towerblockwalks.bsky.social

You have to be real about this. Anti-vaxxing is rife on Pakistan's News channels & social media; a lot of disinformation comes from Islamic countries. They are fearful of the West tying to control the spread of ideology through childbirth. There I've said it & I stand by it. It is infecting the UK.

aug 31, 2025, 4:33 pm • 0 0 • view
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Immaterial @listeningmainly.bsky.social

Return of the Dark Ages

aug 31, 2025, 10:29 am • 2 0 • view
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Aura Fitzgerald @aurafitzgerald.bsky.social

I hate to sound callous, but if people are so dumb that they avoid life-saving treatment for their children, maybe we are weeding out the stupid from the gene pool 😕. Exposing your kids to life-threatening illnesses is child abuse.

aug 31, 2025, 9:23 am • 3 0 • view
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blastedoff.bsky.social @blastedoff.bsky.social

Calling vaccines "jabs" is stupid and irresponsible, using antivaxxer language is gross

aug 31, 2025, 2:12 pm • 3 1 • view
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Alice Hare @towerblockwalks.bsky.social

Yep, JABS is an American cliché...a country that is rife with linguistic clichés..."kill the lights", "hit the switch", "he's hitting on me", on & on &on... violent language memes...

aug 31, 2025, 4:36 pm • 0 0 • view
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blastedoff.bsky.social @blastedoff.bsky.social

Never heard vaccinations being called "jabs" until the Covid era. The language suggests getting a vaccination is a violent act

aug 31, 2025, 4:39 pm • 1 1 • view
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Alice Hare @towerblockwalks.bsky.social

yeah it's been around...inoculate is a bit too adult and rational for many...😱

aug 31, 2025, 4:45 pm • 1 0 • view
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Allyson @ada-l.bsky.social

These are common colloquialisms in the UK and predated ant vaxxers. In Scotland we call them jags. www.oed.com/dictionary/j...

Additional sense (2022) 1949– Chiefly Scottish. A hypodermic injection, esp. a vaccination. Cf. jab n. 1b. 1949 Peron orders jag for all... The action came in the face of a growing smallpox outbreak. Press & Journal (Aberdeen) 8 September 1/2Citation details for Press & Journal (Aberdeen) 1982 If she takes flu, in spite of an annual ‘flu jag’,..a home help attends her domestic needs. A. MacVicar, Bees in my Bonnet ii. 43Citation details for A. MacVicar, Bees in my Bonnet 2021 It was a massive relief that my own parents had their jags in the past week or so. Evening Times (Glasgow) (Nexis) 10 February 14Citation details for Evening Times (Glasgow)
aug 31, 2025, 5:26 pm • 2 0 • view
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Bill Stone @billstone.bsky.social

Why is the UK getting so dumb about vaccines? Are you copying trump and RFK Jr.?

aug 31, 2025, 11:33 am • 2 0 • view
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Courtmouse @courtmouse.bsky.social

And RFK, jr and tRump (cause he appointed the asshole) have blood on their hands in EVERY SUCH DEATH.

aug 31, 2025, 9:54 pm • 0 0 • view
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James Gorton @aspi-avenger.bsky.social

are you supposed to be about personal choice. not bowing to religion or government and here you are getting preachy about immunizations. as I said and will say a thousand times your no different to any other group or cult. your about controlling the thoughts of the masses and directing will

aug 31, 2025, 11:02 am • 1 0 • view
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blastedoff.bsky.social @blastedoff.bsky.social

You and the rest of the antivax terrorists need to be dropped on an island and fight a smallpox epidemic

aug 31, 2025, 2:13 pm • 3 0 • view
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John Topham @johntopham.bsky.social

Humanism includes reason & evidence as part of its outlook, along with compassion for our fellow man. Using those criteria, encouraging vaccination is obvious. Evidence shows they work, reason suggests we take them and compassion for our fellows suggests we encourage them

aug 31, 2025, 9:12 pm • 0 0 • view
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watersigndream.bsky.social @watersigndream.bsky.social

Parents need to be in prison if their child dies of a vaccine-preventable disease.

sep 1, 2025, 12:27 pm • 0 0 • view
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SCOTT @artist71.bsky.social

Stupidity kills!

aug 31, 2025, 1:11 pm • 2 0 • view