Honestly as a medical professional the antivax is just getting tiresome. It is not easy to day in, day out, try and engage with people who genuinely believe they have sufficient understanding of the underlying concepts, and yet have virtually no understanding of the underlying concepts, no trust, no nothing. And as soon as you try and correct them on a basic level, you’re being paid off by the TGA or the drug companies or whatever
e.g, a number of people have told me AZ is no good because it contains polyethylene glycol (fact check-
- AZ does not contain PEG, Pfizer does however). That Novavax is better as it has been around for 10 years and Ebola vaccines have used the same technology (
- Ebola vaccines are similar to AZ and J&J), that AZ contains chimpanzee DNA (
- no, it’s a chimpanzee adenovirus. It’s no more chimpanzee DNA than saying influenza contains human DNA ie completely incorrect)
this stuff just goes on and on, day in and day out