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COVID-19 misinformation bolsters anti-vaccine movement

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By Rob Lever

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I'll just leave this research from the UK here.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4125501

Also from the Danish Health Authority Director:

When Søren Brostrøm visited 'Go' evening Live' on TV 2 on Wednesday night, he was asked if it was a mistake to vaccinate children.

- With what we know today: yes. With what we knew then: no, was the answer.

Source: https://nyheder.tv2.dk/samfund/2022-06-22-set-i-bakspejlet-fik-vi-ikke-meget-ud-af-at-vaccinere-boernene-erkender-brostroem?

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It's big pharma and governments' fault for trying to force everyone to get the 'rona' shot. And suspiciously trying to censor anyone who dare to ask questions about their 'miracle' product. If they had left people alone they would still trust the real vaccines.

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The under-educated kooks who think they know more about epidemiology than the doctors and scientists are the cause of this anti-vaccine madness....

Them, and the far-right media outlets and other advocacy groups whose only goal is to manipulate the outrage and fleece these minions out of their money...

Tin foil-lined caps and horse dewormer....utter craziness....

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Let's see, whom to trust?

The PhDs with decades of experience in epidemiology, laboratory research and billions in research, or the loons on the internet who saw something on Facebook?

Can I have a second to think that one over?

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lincolnmanToday  09:19 am JST

The under-educated kooks who think they know more about epidemiology than the doctors and scientists are the cause of this anti-vaccine madness....

Them, and the far-right media outlets and other advocacy groups whose only goal is to manipulate the outrage and fleece these minions out of their money...

Tin foil-lined caps and horse dewormer....utter craziness....

AM mayhem blabbermouths and blubberbutts, hack podcasters, televangelists, political 'leaders' who lie and deny or set a bad example, snake oil salesmen. Then they sit back and giggle.

NemoToday  09:23 am JST

Let's see, whom to trust?

The PhDs with decades of experience in epidemiology, laboratory research and billions in research, or the loons on the internet who saw something on Facebook?

Can I have a second to think that one over?

Doctors, nurses, scientists all over the world have been busting their butts to find a vaccination for this virus, and now we must get a planet of 8 billion inoculated. But these greedy business heads and loudmouth local political idiots and zeros aren't taking it seriously, at least in the US. People are acting like sheep about it and it's sad.

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Unfortunately a big part of the problem is that the stablished media gives free spaces for the antivaxxer groups to push for disinformation. You can even see it in this page, with every article about vaccines including comments that are easily proved as false, but remain untouched, possibly misleading someone that get a correct idea from the article (that are usually well sustained by evidence) but then gets completely bogus ideas from the comments, mistakenly thinking that if what the people are saying were false it would not be allowed to remain. The media has to assume the responsibility of helping the antivaccine movement, having a good, truthful and correct article do not compensate letting people promote disinformation on the comments.

Oh yeah sure it has nothing to do with Big Pharma claiming 90% efficacy for their miracle inventions and where we are now

The efficacy obviously was claimed over the clinical trials and there is no information that have make this claim false, even before the trials even began the possibility of variants was already discussed, which is where we are now.

With what we know today: yes. With what we knew then: no, was the answer.

There is no information we know today that would make it a mistake, no risk from vaccines is even comparable with the risk from the infection, preventing deaths is a very good reason to vaccinate, but preventing hospitalizations and long lasting health problems is not something that can be ignored either.

It's big pharma and governments' fault for trying to force everyone to get the 'rona' shot.

So you think antivaxxers appeared during the pandemic? there is no chance this movement would not take to promote disinformation against vaccines, using the convenience of people that prefer to become a risk for others instead of questioning their beliefs is just another of their methods.

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Let's see, whom to trust?

The PhDs with decades of experience in epidemiology, laboratory research and billions in research, or the loons on the internet who saw something on Facebook?

Actually, most of those who are skeptical of the mainstream narrative are the top scientists, they have done the work and have the publications to prove it:

Robert Malone, Peter McCullough, Didier Raoult, Pierre Kory, and many many more.

The vaccines have been promoted by big pharma backed misinformation. Every day, more people are waking up to the deception and are starting to question things. They are becoming aware that SARSCoV2 most likely came from a lab, and that those who funded that research are now telling us to get vaccinated. There really is a great awakening, also helped by RFK jr's best selling book "The Real Anthony Fauci : Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health."

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Actually, most of those who are skeptical of the mainstream narrative are the top scientists, they have done the work and have the publications to prove 

But when asked to provide evidence of institutions that support those beliefs you bring none. Exactly as if the scientific consensus completely contradict you.

Robert Malone, Peter McCullough, Didier Raoult, Pierre Kory, and many many more.

So your references that people should trust even when they present no evidence are people that have been found lying, making unreasonable mistakes that not even a student would or even found guilty of making unethical human experimentation without permission nor approval from anybody or plain fraud for economic profit as Raoult.

If you need people to trust your reference you really need better references, people known for repeating falsehoods are the opposite of what anybody should turst.

The vaccines have been promoted by big pharma backed misinformation

The vaccines have been promoted by all scientific and medical institutions of the world, your belief that all those professionals are in a world wide conspiracy to damage their own families and friends just for money is impossible to believe for anybody with common sense. Maybe someone that only moves for personal economic profit would think this is believable, not for anybody else.

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So your references that people should trust even when they present no evidence are people that have been found lying, making unreasonable mistakes that not even a student would or even found guilty of making unethical human experimentation without permission nor approval from anybody or plain fraud for economic profit as Raoult.

No, those are just baseless accusations, which unfortunately are the first ones to show up when Googling their names.

What are not baseless accusations are the numerous times that Pfizer and other pharmas have been convicted in court of falsifying data and bribing doctors and officials. These are the ones you're saying we should trust....

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No, those are just baseless accusations, which unfortunately are the first ones to show up when Googling their names.

All are wel fundamented and proved, enough for example to put Raoult Didier in huge legal problems because of his illegal and unethical activities, you don't pretend the medical associations and law system in France are just googling things, right?

Nobody has been convicted of falsifying data on the covid vaccines, Raoult on the other hand has already found commiting scientific malpractice, fraud, lying to an ethical committee, etc. etc.

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If Covid was not something that most of us have already encountered by now then all the mainstream pap might be believable, but that isn’t the case!

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COVID-19 misinformation bolsters anti-vaccine movement

And bolsters the pro-vaccine movement.

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And bolsters the pro-vaccine movement.

There is exactly zero need for any misinformation to bolster the use of vaccines as a safe and effective health measure against many infectious diseases including covid, the scientific consensus is enough.

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