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   Amir E. Aharoni (aharoni@wikis.world)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2026 00:19:28 JST Amir E. Aharoni

   Somebody has just asked me if I received COVID-19 vaccine before the outbreak of COVID-19.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2026 00:19:21 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @aharoni Could they mean the seasonal upswing in COVID-19 cases that usually happens during the winter in our hemisphere? People are encouraged to get their boosters *before* the upswing.

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     Amir E. Aharoni (aharoni@wikis.world)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2026 00:19:22 JST Amir E. Aharoni

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     This actually happened.

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     Amir E. Aharoni (aharoni@wikis.world)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2026 00:19:24 JST Amir E. Aharoni

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     "Oh, I see, you received it... during the COVID-19 outbreak. Mmm... OK."

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     Amir E. Aharoni (aharoni@wikis.world)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2026 00:19:25 JST Amir E. Aharoni

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     And I said "no, I did receive it, but not before the COVID-19 outbreak. Because, you know, the COVID-19 vaccine didn't exist before the outbreak. I received it during the outbreak, like most other people."

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     Amir E. Aharoni (aharoni@wikis.world)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2026 00:19:26 JST Amir E. Aharoni

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     So they said: "oh, so you didn't receive the COVID-19 vaccine?"

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     Amir E. Aharoni (aharoni@wikis.world)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2026 00:19:27 JST Amir E. Aharoni

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     So I said that I didn't, because the COVID-19 vaccine didn't exist before the outbreak of COVID-19.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2026 02:34:41 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Dan Patch

     @datn @aharoni are you familiar with this person?

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     Dan Patch (datn@xoxo.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2026 02:34:43 JST Dan Patch

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan @aharoni that is a vastly overcharitable interpretation

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2026 04:11:52 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Dan Patch

     @aharoni @datn Hmm. That's interesting! To me, that suggests that my interpretation is more feasible -- or maybe that the person who wrote the question meant it my way, and a different person who read the question aloud didn't understand what they were asking.

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     Amir E. Aharoni (aharoni@wikis.world)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2026 04:11:54 JST Amir E. Aharoni

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     • Evan Prodromou
     • Dan Patch

     @evan @datn Not familiar personally. It's a phone representative from a medical services company who reads questions from a script without pausing to consider that the script occasionally makes no sense.

     Such things happen very often, and this instance was particularly amusing.