The social media folks over at Johns Hopkins used a clip from the 1990 film “Home Alone” to illustrate how vaccines work with Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) as the vaccine and the Wet Bandits (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern) as the Covid variants.
Have a watch:
"This is my body, I have to defend it!" 🏠
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— Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (@JohnsHopkinsSPH) December 21, 2021
Um, this actually means the vaccine (Kevin) will be battling Covid variants for years to come. There’s “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York,” followed by “Home Alone 3″ staring a brand new virus related to Covid, followed by Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House” which is yet another reboot of the original pandemic and on and on and on:
And then there was Home Alone 2. And Home Alone 3. And Home Alone 4… https://t.co/fFnTZTqt6O
— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) December 22, 2021
And we eagerly await another tweet from Johns Hopkins showing the vaccine meeting its creator:
In case you are confused by Klobuchar's comment about Trump, Trudeau and Home Alone 2, here is a top-five least important fact check of my career https://t.co/uOauaLRnY1
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 18, 2020
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