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LinkPizza posted...

A ton are going for the religious exemption

Because nothing could be more American than only caring about religion when it works as an excuse to get out of doing the right thing.

DragonClaw01 posted...

The main objection seems to be that the drug manufactures use fetal cells lines to test the vaccine, but that is SOP for pretty much everything now a days. To be logically consistent you would have to swear off nearly every drug if this was an issue for you.

Indeed. Specifically, it's a cell line from *one* aborted fetus from the 50's (who was aborted because the mother didn't want the pregnancy, not specifically for the sake of harvesting the cells) which has since been used in developing countless drugs and other products. That cell line can be credited with saving literally billions of lives, so while the ethics of using it in the first place were somewhat questionable, enough good has come from that decision that I feel morally at peace with the issue.

Plus, as you say, it's in bloody everything. It's been raised by anti-vaxxers as something wrong with the Covid vaccine specifically because they're desperate to find anything to discredit it, but I can all but guarantee that everyone leaning on that excuse has happily consumed other products using that cell line, likely without even looking past this month.

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