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[–] [email protected] 166 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Actually you could eat vaccines with no problems (unless you tried to eat the syringes too) but it would be a waste.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Stomach acid and digestive enzymes will just deactivate most components. Live vaccines might cause issues (probably wouldn't want to drink the TB vaccine). The post in discussion shows a shocking fundamental misunderstanding about how all of this works though. It is meant for like-minded people who would accept this logic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"Oral BCG was used in recent clinical studies and it was found that revaccination orally induces circulating cell-mediated immune responses, but does not induce a positive TST in responsive individuals."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Well dang, now I'm wondering if it's actually safe to shoot broccoli

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You could just stab it. No need to use a gun, it can't run fast at all

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

You've clearly never had to deal with 30-50 feral broccolis in your yard.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It makes me wonder if there are any substances that are safe to inject straight into your tissue that your body would even notice--let alone kill you--if you ingested in the same quantity as an injection. Icky taste aside...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Maybe some compound that is relatively harmless on its own but yields a toxic compound in contact with stomach acid? Blood is slightly alkaline so it would not trigger after an injection and leave time for the kidneys and liver to degrade it. Maybe some cyanogenic glycoside?

[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think you could drink a spoonfull of vaccines with no ill effects

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Yes, in general if you can safely inject something then you can safely eat it too (it'll taste like shit though). Vaccine won't work that way, but you probably won't even feel any I'll effects beyond the terrible taste.

I'm actually curious if there are any exceptions to this - things you can inject but highly toxic if ingested.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 months ago

Antivaxx mfers when they learn some vaccines are administered orally

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Vaccines are the opposite of healthy, they are specifically made to trigger your immune system. That's why with most vaccines the next day or days people feel like shit, it's like being sick. But the vaccine is much better than getting the disease it's designed for, is perfectly safe and has no permanent effects besides the training it gave the immune system.

Plus most vaccines are perfectly fine to eat, they just won't work that way.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago

That's like saying exercise is the opposite of healthy, it tears muscle fibres triggering your body to repair them.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

That’s why with most vaccines the next day or days people feel like shit

I have been warned about this for every vaccine I remember taking... other than the occasional sore spot where the injection went, I have never felt any other side effects.

This is anecdotal of course, but I am pretty sure the instances of these mild side effects is less than 10%

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Usually I don't really feel any vaccines, maybe a bit less energy the day after.

But one of the covid vaccines (I think the one for omicron) hit me like a ton of bricks, I was passed out on my bed for a good 24 hours and felt like shit for a couple of days. Heard similar from other people. But with another covid shot I felt nothing where my girlfriend had the worst headache for a day.

So it depends as always. One day of being sick is so much better than getting some of the awful diseases I've been vaccinated against.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

One day of being sick is so much better than getting some of the awful diseases I’ve been vaccinated against.

And even more to the point, it's also much better than spreading some of the awful diseases we get vaccinated against!

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm sorry I ate all the vaccines everyone. I was really hungry.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Your everything-immunity better make up for it. Next time there's a bio hazard you're getting a call.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I’m struggling to think of any substance that is safe to inject but not ingest. How would that even work?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

perhaps with something that when injected is inert but when ingested it mixes with the stomach acids and becomes poisonous?

Amygdalin comes to mind, but I'm not sure if it produces cyanide even when not in the stomach/intestine and just in the bloodstream, so obviously do not try it

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Saline should be fine, it's just salt water. You wouldn't want to chug a ton of it, but even a glass certainly won't hurt you.

Edit: After some googling, swallowing insulin wouldn't hurt you either. It won't help your diabetes, but it's definitely not poisonous.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Breathing pure oxygen can kill you. If you want to preserve your pure bloodlines, it's best to not take vaxs and even better if you get a nitrogen tank and breath just that. It'll clean up the gene pool really fast.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Instructions unclear, injecting oxygen into veins.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Veins are for bleach

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I prefer smoking broccoli myself.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

"So are carrots, but you don't see me injecting them between my toes!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Guu_XOa-gIw

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

🥦🚬

Back when weed wasn't legal in Germany, my SO and I would call it broccoli when talking to each other. Funny to think back to it

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Got it, so the only food we should ever eat is Blood.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Speak for yourself, i'm 97% lard

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Umm...lard. Why'd the most delicious things always the most unhealthy? Ughh, my mom used to cook with homemade lard when I was a kid (before the time of vegetable oil). The crusty pig skin left over after making the lard is my #1 snack as a kid, always craving that shit. We switched to vegetable oil when I'm about 7 or 8 yo, still miss that shit till today.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

So many MANY people died before we invented vaccines. Those people must be spinning in their graves seeing the stupidty that exists today.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Judging by the date this is actually a "true" antivaxxer and not a politically "inspired" Trump loving antivaxxer that only believes that stuff because they were manipulated by right wing media.

Take that as you will I guess lol props to them for "thinking for themselves" I guess? They should just do a little less of it though apparently...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The polio vaccine would like to have a word with you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Came here to say this. They literally administered the polio vaccine on sugar cubes. But most people don't remember that now.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Will you actually die if you drink a spoonful of vaccine?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Definitely not. If you had enough volume to fill a spoon, around 15 mL, it would be 30-60 times greater than your typical injected vaccine. Some individuals might have a slight immune reaction (think upset stomach, body aches, etc) to its viral fraction, but those people would likely have a similar reaction to the same vaccine being injected. Many people wouldn't notice anything at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Almost certainly not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Pretty much certainly yes. Within 100-120 years.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

What the fuck.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You joke, but there are influencers tryling to convince people that vegetables are bad because they contain harmful chemicals.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well they are known to contain dihydrogen monoxide, which is lethal to inhale in relatively small quantities.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

It kills more people annually than almost any other chemical.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There are harmful chemicals in some vegetables. Solanine in potatoes, for example. Not enough to be dangerous though unless you ingest a truly remarkable volume of potato skin. The dose makes the poison, as they say.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

The rotavirus vaccine is literally administered orally

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

yep, it's true. Don't eat needles, dudes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Everyone in this post is asking "but would a spoonful of vaccine actually kill you"

but no-one is asking "but would a broccoli injection actually kill you".

(Neither am I.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

This kind of crap is why I still follow '@BadMedicineTakes' on Xitter.

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