The 2020 COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic led to vaccinations, sometimes called the “freedom shot.” The term “freedom shot” is a reminder of the gunshots of the battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, called “The shot heard round the world.” “Freedom shot” is often used jocularly.
     
“Once there is a vaccine, getting inoculated will be called ‘getting a freedom shot’ in the #USA” was posted on Twitter by Itkovian on April 3, 2020. “We’re ready for our freedom shots Mr. President administered by the military!!” was posted on Twitter by Christopher Greene on May 17, 2020. “Freedom shots” was entered in the Urban Dictionary on November 23, 2020.
   
“Freedom mask” (face mask) is a similar “freedom” term.
   
     
Wikipedia: COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. The outbreak was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern in January 2020 and a pandemic in March 2020.
       
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Itkovian
@Itkovian
Once there is a vaccine, getting inoculated will be called “getting a freedom shot” in the #USA.
1:00 PM · Apr 2, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
 
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Christopher Greene
@amtvmedia
Replying to @amtvmedia and @realDonaldTrump
We’re ready for our freedom shots Mr. President administered by the military!! Thanks for being so patriotic Flag of United States
2:21 PM · May 17, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
     
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Tina McK
@mchappy07
Replying to @amtvmedia and @realDonaldTrump
Freedom shot?  You mean vaccination? You can have mine too dude. #followJesusdoya?
3:29 PM · May 17, 2020·Twitter for Android
 
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Rob Cooper
@TyDurdan88
Fall in line for your “freedom shot” sheeple!
6:45 PM · Sep 15, 2020·Twitter for Android
 
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Mountain Witch
@nopemountain
Maybe if we brand the vaccine the Trump Freedom Shot and give out little shot glasses engraved with the American flag with every injection, we can get anti-vaxxers to take it.
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Dana Donnelly
@danadonly
· Nov 9, 2020
love how trump supporters are like “thank you trump for vaccine Folded hands” then in the same breath go “i would never take vaccine vaccines are government mind control devices”
12:48 PM · Nov 9, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
 
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Furious Apollo
@Fur1ousApollo
Replying to @EndUKLockdown1
The Freedom Shot!!
According to the loons, without it, you’ll never be free again or use the NHS.
4:58 AM · Nov 14, 2020·Twitter Web App
 
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Sonaldo
@jeramye
Replying to @TheM_L_G and @MC_of_A
That vaccine can’t call itself a vaccine though. It’s a properly branded “Freedom Shot”
8:41 AM · Nov 16, 2020 from Oneonta, AL·Twitter for iPhone
   
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Kase Brammer
@LLCoolKase
Don’t even call it a vaccine, it’s a freedom shot. Get your freedom shot today #freedomshot
10:59 PM · Nov 20, 2020·Twitter for Android
 
Urban Dictionary 
freedom shots
A coronavirus vaccine is known as a “freedom shot.” People who get freedom shots gain immunity from the big ‘rona and are free to roam this land. Despite fears of being injected tracking microchips from big tech CCP shill Bill Gates, freedom shots are widely accepted as they are the only way life can get back to normal again.
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by Very high 420 November 23, 2020
         
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Lee Devonald
@LeeDevonald
Come get your freedom shots right here!
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Mara “Get Rid of the Nazis” Wilson
@MaraWilson
· Dec 1, 2020
This is an amazing stock photo
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2:16 PM · Dec 1, 2020·TweetDeck
   
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Scotty ‘Doesn’t Know’ K
@Scotty_K_
I vote we call the COVID vaccine the “Freedom Shot” or the “Trump Vaccine” to improve the effectiveness in rural America
12:35 PM · Dec 4, 2020·Twitter Web App
   
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KarmaCorona
@KarmaCorona
Replying to @DrTomFrieden
They should call it an Anti-Mask Freedom Shot
8:01 AM · Dec 5, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
 
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The wonderful Anna Marie
@RawaHerc
Replying to @OhNoSheTwitnt
Rename it “freedom shots”
11:16 AM · Dec 8, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
 
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Appalachian /K/ommando
@ActualFixer
Coming to a grocery store near you! Have you had your Freedom Shots, citizen?!
9:31 AM · Dec 9, 2020·Twitter Web App
 
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downtowndave
@DaveThmpsn
Replying to @realDonaldTrump and @Varneyco
Sad for Lumpy, Joe’s first EO will be to rename all Covid Vaccines to Biden Freedom shots.
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10:49 AM · Dec 11, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
     
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Matt
@shivaoftheeast
Replying to @coyotebonez
“Freedom shot” made from the essence of bald eagles, bush light and ar-15’s…with donald trumps toddler signature written all over it.
That’s how you get “Americans” to take the vaccine.
11:54 AM · Dec 18, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
 
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Seth Barnhill
@artmercenary
Replying to @EnglishGuy75 @WadeCannibal and @aetiology
Both are just marketing problems. Call the organic food “junk food,” and the vaccine a “freedom shot.” Problems solved.
8:42 AM · Dec 23, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
 
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Volntyr
@Volntyr
I wonder.  If we start calling the COVID 19 vaccines “Freedom Shots” would more people accept it? 
Everyone!  Get your shot of Freedom and Save the USA!
7:45 PM · Dec 30, 2020·Twitter for Android
         
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AngularAnglo
@AnglandAnglo
Replying to @GammonBritish
Blair of all people. If he wanted to nudge his followers into rolling up their sleeves for their ‘freedom shot’, surely it didn’t need Blair!
3:37 AM · Jan 5, 2021·Twitter Web App
 
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AngularAnglo
@AnglandAnglo
Replying to @RealBlackIrish
If they’re going to blitz the public with ‘freedom shot’ propaganda, they really should think harder about the public faces they’re using to sell the idea
8:55 AM · Jan 6, 2021·Twitter Web App
 
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John Steele
@PeacefulVet11B
Replying to @ezraklein and @dmt4mt
It’s going to take a long time to undo the brainwashing in alot of Trump’s supporters, who have chosen to listen to him over Doctors and Scientists. Just tell them it’s a “Freedom Shot” and they’re not ‘Murican if they don’t take it.
5:02 PM · Jan 15, 2021·Twitter Web App
 
Times Herald-Record (Middletown, NY)
Center for Discovery secures 900 vaccines, has few coronavirus cases, no deaths a year into pandmic
Daniel Axelrod
January 26, 2021
HARRIS – Parents are already cracking smiles and crying because the Center for Discovery’s newly vaccinated residents can return home for short visits for the first time since March.
 
The Harris-based Center – an internationally known caregiver, health-care provider, school and research institute for those with complex developmental disabilities – recently administered 900 Pfizer coronavirus vaccines.
 
“We’re calling them freedom shots,” said Terry Hamlin, the Center’s associate executive director. “We knew right away we’d be in trouble with this virus if we didn’t act quickly,” she said.