Trump’s health secretary shared photos of himself fishing before he offered any thoughts about the attack.

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    obsessed with a belief that the coronavirus vaccine had harmed him.

    I mean there are lots of cases of this really happening, so i wouldnt just disregard that as a conspiracy theory. The work to follow up on adverse effects of the vaccine was also very minimal. Not to say what he did was reasonable or anything, but i dont like when news articles just categorically disregard someone as a crazy idiot, when they have no actual knowledge of the individual.

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      I mean, him being a “crazy idiot” (your words, not mine) seems evident from the shooting. Given that he is, what’s more likely? Genuine vaccine damage or him buying into conspiracy theories and delusional thinking?

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      What if I, a non media outlet, say that this person was a crazy idiot, and that you are veering very close to that descriptor yourself?

      Will you pause to consider why some random stranger would consider your position on covid vaccine harm as that of a crazy idiot and bother to reply to you? Or just write me off?

      I’d give good odds on the latter. But I’ll hold out hope.

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      Do you have peer-reviewed sourced citations that prove your “lots of cases of this really happening”, or might you be some crazy idiot, too?