Musician Jim Corr’s bad take on vaccination gave people the needle – 9 savage clapbacks
Jim Corr is probably best known for being “not a woman” in the Irish family music group “The Corrs”, but he’s also carved out a little niche just for himself as a celebrity anti-vaxxer. He recently tweeted a vaccine-related take so bad it could be the next Prime Minister of the UK.
What if we were actually meant to get mild childhood illnesses like Measles so as to help prime our immune systems into fighting much greater diseases in later life? 🤔
— Jim Corr 🇮🇪 (@Jimcorrsays) June 25, 2019
With 1.8k replies and 171 retweets, it’s fair to say he was well and truly ratioed. Here are some of the best clapbacks:
1.
What if we were meant to read nonsense like this to inoculate us against idiocy?
— Rory Cellan-Jones (@ruskin147) June 27, 2019
2.
The Corrs are cancelled https://t.co/hzgKH6ChBx
— Vonny LeClerc (@vonny_bravo) June 27, 2019
3.
Jim. Hasn’t Ireland had enough ill informed extremism from men?
— Shelagh Fogarty (@ShelaghFogarty) June 27, 2019
4.
Or you could look up facts 'n' stuff in those books you get nowadays. https://t.co/UeteIsjr58
— Richard Littler (@richard_littler) June 27, 2019
5.
What if you were actually meant to play music and not talk shite https://t.co/8yvmzdzdJS
— Queen Meave (@MeaveofConnaugh) June 27, 2019
6.
Wouldn't it be awesome if there were a way to prime your immune system with a mild form of a disease in a manner that wouldn't kill you? Some way we could…say…inoculate against it? Hmmmm… https://t.co/ThrglZfAgw
— Grace Deitzler, MicroBEEologist (@dna_heligrace) June 28, 2019
7.
Do we have a vaccine for stupidity? https://t.co/W96miw5C3v
— Manisha Agarwal (@manisha72617183) June 28, 2019
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It be a great idea if it didn’t kill and make kids deaf and blind. If only there were a safer alternative… maybe some sort of immunogenic practice that could delivered by trained physician backed up by a plethora of rigorous data…
— James Gurney (@Jamesrgurney) June 25, 2019
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Quite the opposite, plague enthusiast: measles erases your immune system's memory, debilitating it for years https://t.co/CmlTFlGm17 https://t.co/tYFbah7VFs
— Dreadful E (@EvilCEOE) June 27, 2019
Ironically, Jim Corr had actually done the opposite of what he’d intended.
Yes, well done. You've just described vaccination.
A mild/incapacitated version of a dangerous disease designed to prime our immune systems into more effectively fighting the more dangerous versions of the disease later on.
That's, literally why we vaccinate our children. https://t.co/XKKwirKma6
— Alex Weatherall (@A_Weatherall) June 27, 2019
