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Far-right troll Jack Posobiec suggests alternative to vaccines: vaccines

Revelatory.

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jack posobiec with 'what if instead of a vaccine we just were able to get exposed to a weak version of the virus that enabled us to build the antibodies we need to fight the real thing' tweet

Far-right media personality Jack Posobiec, who works at the more-than-dubious outlet One America News Network, has a lengthy history of pranks and trolls.

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So much so that whenever one of Posobiec’s bad takes goes off the rails, he’s free to claim it was all a joke. But that didn’t stop him from becoming the butt of the internet when he recently suggested an alternative to vaccines in an absurd tweet.

“What if instead of a vaccine we just were able to get exposed to a weak version of the virus that enabled us to build the antibodies we need to fight the real thing,” Posobiec asked.

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1339720194718113794
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As a plethora of Twitter users pointed out, that’s exactly what a vaccine is.

(Except, weirdly, in this instance, where the coronavirus vaccine doesn’t use a version of the virus, but rather mRNA, which acts like a version of the virus yada yada yada.)

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While Posobiec later claimed people completely missed that he was trolling, it’s unclear what exactly the troll might be. Unless wanting people to think you’re ignorant to medical science is a troll.

If it is a troll, it’s one he’s repeatedly posted.

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https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1264914254093791232

So far, the effect of Posobiec’s repeated “trolling” is unknown.

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