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COVID vaccine

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COVID vaccine

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COVID vaccine is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between September 20, 2021 and January 16, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as “unwillingness to take the COVID vaccine”; “COVID Vaccine Killing People”; “one person blaming his death on the COVID vaccine”. It most often appears alongside United States, Biden, Elon Musk.

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  • Category: Concepts
  • Mention count: 3
  • Issue count: 3
  • First seen: September 20, 2021
  • Last seen: January 16, 2026

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

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September 20, 2021 · Original source
4: Contra speculation, there is no link between knowledge of the Tuskegee experiment and black people’s unwillingness to take the COVID vaccine.
Inline links: no link between
Sorry, I Still Think I Am Right About The Media Very Rarely Lying
December 29, 2022 · Original source
In any case, it definitely doesn’t look like anyone is making anything up or outright lying. Fox is honestly reporting what Rand Paul said. Rand Paul is honestly reporting what the Vote Pattern Analysis blog said. Vote Pattern Analysis discovered a suspicious-looking true fact, and leapt from there to “fraud!” without considering innocent explanations. If you look at other media claiming the 2020 election was stolen, you’ll find very similar stories. 2: The COVID Vaccine Killing People Moving on to Tony’s second example, I Googled “COVID vaccine killing people”. The first article I found supporting the statement was from “The Daily Sceptic”: Twice As Many Vaccine Deaths As COVID Deaths In US Households, Poll Finds. It reports that 3.5% of people polled say that someone in their household died of COVID, but 7.9% said someone in their family died from getting the COVID vaccine.
Inline links: Twice As Many Vaccine Deaths As COVID Deaths In US Households, Poll Finds
Moving on to Tony’s second example, I Googled “COVID vaccine killing people”. The first article I found supporting the statement was from “The Daily Sceptic”: Twice As Many Vaccine Deaths As COVID Deaths In US Households, Poll Finds. It reports that 3.5% of people polled say that someone in their household died of COVID, but 7.9% said someone in their family died from getting the COVID vaccine.
Inline links: Twice As Many Vaccine Deaths As COVID Deaths In US Households, Poll Finds
My guess - which I admit is awkward and unsatisfying - is that the people taking the poll must have misunderstood the question. Maybe 7% of people misheard it as “Do you have anyone in your household who got the COVID vaccine?”, not “Do you have anyone in your household who died from the COVID vaccine?” Commenters also bring up the possibility that people interpreted any death after ever having gotten the vaccine as a vaccine-caused death, at least for purposes of this question.
The Dilbert Afterlife
January 16, 2026 · Original source
(also one person blaming his death on the COVID vaccine, but this is Twitter, you’re never going to avoid that)