*NBA player Trey Burke is catching heat on social media for admitting that he’s not down with vaccines.
Burke’s anti-vaxx opinion comes as folks (including professionals within the science and medical community) debate about the link between the coronavirus and the flu vaccine.
According to diabledveterans.org, “A recent military study shows military personnel evaluated who received the flu vaccine were at 36 percent increased risk for coronavirus with varied benefit in preventing some strains of the flu,” the outlet writes.
Meanwhile, scientists around the world are reportedly working to find a COVID-19 vaccine. But Burke wants no parts of it
The Philadelphia 76er’s point guard took to his Instagram Stories to sound off about immunization, writing: “F*ck a vaccination.”
He added, “Tryna kill us YOU [emoji eyes] you crazy you think otherwise!”
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OK, so the thing that has broken me is that Trey Burke is an anti-vaccer/conspiracy theorist. Please take me back to simpler times.
— Ismat Sarah Mangla (@ismat) March 24, 2020
He also urged his followers to “Pick a side” before noting his faith in God.
“I choose the Most High through Christ could careless [sic] what the world think [shrugging emoji].”
As reported by NewsOne, Burke went on to compare vaccinations to the RFID tracking devices — that by definition uses “electronic tags placed on objects, people, or animals to relay identifying information to an electronic reader by means of radio waves.”
Burke said “RFID in full effect and they ready to implement!”
Trey Burke dropping an antivax rant on IG is peak quarantine content
— Drunk Flan (@drunkflan) March 24, 2020
He also revealed that the hospital tried to prevent him from leaving with his baby without vaccinations.
Trey Burke posting some real shit on IG rn
— KAINECOBAIN3 (@kainecobain3) March 24, 2020
Via NewsOne:
Black folks have every reason to be suspicious of vaccinations in this country. Lest we forget the so-called Tuskegee experiment. Nevermind the AIDS epidemic that has disproportionately affected Black people as well as the “involuntary government sanctioned sterilization programs, medical discrimination and highly suspicious “birth control” programs even into the 1990s” that NBC News reminded readers of. The anti-vaxxer movement dates back centuries and is much more common among Black folks than other races and ethnicities, according to research conducted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The outlet also notes that the World Health Organization has classified “vaccine hesitancy” as a global health threat.
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