“I had another of many friends have a horrible reaction to the vaccine just today. She thought she was dying and fears her quality of life has changed in the past few days for good."
The world’s greatest surfer, athlete, Kelly Slater, has enlivened an otherwise dreary news day by teeing off on COVID vaccines on a relatively obscure Instagram account.
The almost fifty-year-old Slater lit up after the account @summer_ofsurf posted a message thanking ocean racing competitors for getting vaccinated against COVID-19, prompting ironman Matt Poole to write.
“The next time I head down to surfers I’m going to jump in the rip because “freedom of choice”,” Poole wrote. “It’s no issue for me, but as soon as I start telling others there is no danger in the rip, they’ll jump in too, and tell their mates and before you know it, there is a 100 of us in there… Now some of the 100 get in trouble, and lifesavers come to save them… putting those lifesavers in danger as well. Now 50 are drowning and the lifesavers are overrun, and can’t save them all or themselves…. But that was our choice. It’s not freedom of choice if it impacts others — it’s about helping others.”
Here, Slater jumped in.
“@matt_poole1 let me explain why your analogy makes no sense. If I know the risks (informed consent) and I judge the choice to be one that benefits/hurts me based on stats and info and my own ability (health), I can choose accordingly.
“If something happens to me it’s on me, not someone else. Your argument is a false equivalence. Apples and oranges. If 99.7% of all people would be fine with no lifeguard while in that rip and they’re given all the possibilities, most could swim the most dangerous part of that beach without risking drowning.
“And plenty of people drive without seatbelts. We can agree that’s statistically not a great thing at speed but it’s still your choice, not mine. And my seatbelt (like the gene therapy) doesn’t save you so that’s another fallacy. Now regarding covid…21 total deaths in OZ under the age of 30 and 6 below 20. This is clearly a disease of obese, unhealthy, and elderly if you study the official statistics.
“And for people saying listen to the doctors, I’m positive I know more about being healthy than 99% of doctors, but I wouldn’t trust me. But most of my covid info comes directly from doctor friends, many of them in disagreement with the official ‘science’.
“I had another of many friends have horrible reaction to the vaccine just today. She thought she was dying and fears her quality of life has changed in the past few days for good. My mom also is part of those underreported stats. Other friends have literally died from it. So anyone here shaming people who are affected or concerned does nothing but feed the ego.
“When you study and talk to health professionals that deal with actual health and find out about the immune system suppression from the vaccines one day, you’ll open your mind to it.
“Don’t worry, plenty of doctors also talk about this but your algorithm isn’t feeding it to you. It’s wild that people don’t believe we are born with the ability of our bodies to adjust and prepare for different health issues. Covid exposes the unhealthy underlying patterns and issues in people.”
Back in August, Slater leveraged his formidable social media platforms to create what he had hoped would be a non-politicised debate around the use of vaccines to fight COVID-19 and its sequels.
Slater posted an excerpt from an article by Michael Yeadon, a former VP of Pfizer who has become the poster-boy of anti-vaxxers for his belief that there’s gonna be a few side effects we don’t know about yet.
“There is absolutely no need for vaccines to extinguish the pandemic,” wrote Yeadon. “I’ve never heard such nonsense talked about vaccines. You do not vaccinate people who aren’t at risk from a disease. You also don’t set about planing to vaccinate millions of fit and healthy people with a vaccine that hasn’t been extensively tested on human subjects.”
Adding an addendum Slater wrote,
“Something to ponder. But I’m no epidemiologist.”
In a story from March, news agency Reuters tore hell out of Yeadon and his claims etc.
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Just shows how kelley slater was prepared to spin crap about people dying from the vacs then amending to horrifying not dying
Lost all respect for the guy..stick to surfing and shut up about medicine because like you and all the other anti vaxers you are not doctors and know absolutely nothing about modern medicine
If you had just read about vaccines you would have seen how they have staved off plagues
So go listen to people like trump and whoever else but stop piping that crap out there you are only thinking about yourselves
Time to wake up and help us all get to a better place!!
Right on Kelly! listen to the goat.
Follow the science and say no to being a test subject “to save the world”
Seems to me many Australians are suffering from a pretty bad case of Stockholm Syndrome these days.
Thanks bro … it’s been fun
You probably just had a bad case of the flu
Mr Meoff …or can I call you Jacko ?
A French Philosopher once said , the essential, was to ask the questions , especially those which have no answer …..
Self-diagnosis huh?
Good onya, Kelly.
The point proved here is that you’re delusional. You rather distort facts to fit a fixed narrative than think and create your own.
If a tree falls in the forest,does anybody hear?
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telegram: @c19res
Lunatic fringe shit but good for the lols.
3 X!!
I think he was referring to his females friend having a bad reaction to a herpes vaccine.
See #Germany
My people! I’d hate nothing more in the world than someone like me to move in next door…
Yep sure. Even if you take the ‘data’ at face value it is 450000 reports of any reaction out of how many vaccinations?
Here’s an anecdotal one for you. I saw an online survey asking people what reaction they had. Almost all said they had a sore arm for a day or so. Some said they had a mild hangover after either the first shot or the second that lasted anywhere from a few hours to a few days. One person had an allergic reaction that they have had previously on a few occasions, that may or may not have been brought on by the vaccine. Survey size: 689 respondents.
We keep hearing of all these people dying from the vaccine. Where are they? Can anyone who claims it is so give me some info on either the two that Kelly knows to the millions that Alex Jones knows?
BULLSHIT. Everyone I know has gotten really sickness post second jab.
Fuck. I hate it when the only time I get a one in a billion thing happen in my life, it’s not millions of dollars landing on me.
Even when the Astra-Zeneca jab was thought to be causing blood clots, (still no 100% causal link found on that), even with that complication thrown in, the risk of harm from vaccination was still significantly less than the risk of a car accident on the drive to the clinic, and that was still far less than the risk of harm from COVID.
Writing words in capital letters is not considered evidence in most parts. Got any? Got any names I can look up? Any details on the terrible things that happened?
Here’s a site to get a bit of background info on COVID responses that might help. https://www.theshovel.com.a…
Sadly, you can take the boy outta florida, but..
Found it interesting that the NRL is not mandating the jab.
Got to be about the only sport around not doing it.
I’m just kicking the can down the road and will have to get it soon. Chairman Dan said shit here won’t be open until May for unvaxxed, and even then we will be talking 3rd booster.
Like you, Ive got 20 yrs on this planet if Im lucky,and want to be able to do some travelling which means I have to get it.
Guy I MTB with at work is about 35. He got the Pfizer and had heart problems from the start. Went to the cardiologist last week and they put him on meds for 3 months, said he might have to get fluid drained.
The Amish gained heard immunity in May 2020, there were other options to get through this. Seems getting the jab was the easiest for politicians to keep their jobs.
So you can’t go to the pub or kmart, fuk that who cares
Noone checking here except big businesses.
Just been at westfield
No dramas.
Nah..can’t get into the pool, gym, my kids volleyball games.
The guy is a intent on punishing us for not getting it.
Has said straight out that we will not be able to do anything for most of 2022.
Things change
The Amish gained heard immunity in May2020.
and if he’s so smart how come he doesn’t have any hair
what vaccine