Social Media Posts Show Random People Shaking, Saying ‘Thanks Pfizer,’ Here’s The Reaction

By Adam

Twitter trending “Thanks Pfizer”, as users used this phrase when sharing random videos … [+]People shake. (Photo: Getty)

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These are some seriously shaky claims. Many social media accounts have posted videos showing people shaking various parts of their bodies, suggesting they were suffering from Covid-19-induced spasms. A Twitter account called “Alison” posted a video showing a person shaking different parts of their bodies and suggesting that they are suffering from Covid-19-induced spasms. @AngeliaDesselle presented a video of two presumably human legs shaking rather vigorously, along with the words, “Thanks Pfizer.” Presumably, the tweet was referring to the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 mRNA vaccine and not another Pfizer product like Viagra. Could this have shown someone suffering from side effects of the vaccine? Or just someone shaking her legs because that’s what, you know, many humans with legs are able to do?

Well, the bio of this Twitter account didn’t include any clear self-identifying information. So, it’s difficult to tell whether this “Angelia Desselle” is actually a real person or whether those were actually her legs. And even if those were her legs, the tweet didn’t really provide any evidence that Covid-19 vaccines were actually responsible for the shakes. Who needs any real proof these days? This tweet was retweeted more than 5,400 times and quoted over 35.9K. It has also been liked 33.5K times. It also got the words “Thanks Pfizer” to trend on Twitter but maybe not in the way that the person running @AngeliaDesselle might have wanted.

The video and the tweet caused quite a few people to squirm. For example, someone used the “Community Notes” function on Twitter to emphasize that “Spasms have not been demonstrated to be a proven side effect of the covid19 vaccines”:

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Additionally, this Community Note pointed out a hard fact about @AngeliaDesselle’s video: “The shaking is very hard, uncontrollable, yet the camera remains still and level…” Holy special effects, Batman, could the @AngeliaDesselle video in fact have been staged? Was the intent of the video to suggest that someone was suffering from spasms after the Covid-19 vaccine when that didn’t actually happen?

However, other Twitter users tried to avoid such an intent by shaking their heads in some other ways. They shared other videos of random people shaking in various ways along with the words “Thanks, Pfizer” just to show how easy it is to do so.

Randi Mayem singer, for example, is a well-known screenwriter. Mrs. Doubtfire,This tweet was the real deal:

Yep, that’s Jennifer Grey as Frances “Baby” Houseman in the movie Dirty DancingIt was 1987. This, incidentally, was more than 30 years prior to the introduction of the Covid-19 vaccinations.

A second tweet was a dance around the subject, with a newer video.

And here was a swift reaction to the “Thanks Pfizer” trend:

Meanwhile, Duolingo, not to be confused with Dua Lipa, tweeted, “can’t….stop…twerking,” in this two-part tweet thread:

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Source:: Social Media Explorer