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BBC pushes puff piece about "volunteers" who run facebook groups to combat "anti-vaccine propaganda" (archive.is)
posted 5 years ago by UnsubtleAardvark 5 years ago by UnsubtleAardvark +39 / -0
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– Cheers_cunt 10 points 5 years ago +10 / -0

I think pre-Covid, people had a fairly high confidence in vaccines in general.

But then you had the Covid vaccines being rushed through trials that would typically number in years rather than months.

Add to this that mRNA vaccines (e.g.: Moderna) are relatively new and at the onset of Covid, no mRNA drug or vaccine had been licensed for use in humans. The had in fact, up to this point in time, very poor results testing mRNA drugs for cardiovascular, metabolic and renal diseases, selected targets for cancer; and rare diseases like Crigler–Najjar syndrome, with most tests finding that the side-effects of the mRNA delivery methods were too serious (link).

Also add to this traditional protein based vaccines (e.g. AstraZeneca) have been shown to have caused serious side effects (TTS - thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome), even death in some cases. Overall the rate of TTS is estimated to be about 6 cases per million people vaccinated. But the rate is estimated to be higher (20-40 cases per million) in those under 50 years of age. As a point of comparison, a severe allergic reaction to the Polio vaccine is around 1 case per million.

And finally you have big tech and the MSM (which people already have low confidence in their ability to report accurately or impartially) actively trying to censor, or shut down any discussion around why people might want to hold off getting the vaccine, making it look like they have something to hide. And yet organisations like the BBC get a surprised Pikachu face when they see the number of antivaxxers are jumping up substantially.

People (in general) aren't as stupid as the media would like them to be.

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– Robotinic 6 points 5 years ago +6 / -0

Richard is a builder, a trainee psychologist - and one half of the duo behind the decoy group.

Not even an MD going around reeeeducating the populace, I wonder where he gets his sources from...

Hilarious thing is, he'll be ignorant to the fact on why these groups actually exist. It's because people are sick of being misled and controlled by people narrative pushing, and/or generally ignoring or even memory holing actual doctors.

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– Robotinic 7 points 5 years ago +7 / -0

The even sadder thing is, if i even question the vaccines I get called an anti-vaxxer. They won't even humour that they've been rushed and most vaccines take years.

Is anyone sensing some I Am Legend type vibes from this all?

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– censorthisss 5 points 5 years ago +5 / -0

Original research from BBC Monitoring has revealed how Facebook pages and groups promoting misleading and false claims about vaccines saw a significant rise in followers in several countries across the globe in the past year.

In Ukraine, pages sharing anti-vaccine content grew by 157% in 2020, reaching nearly 26,000 page likes, double the rate for the previous year. In Mexico, Brazil and India, similar pages grew by around 50% each in the past year - faster than in the two previous years.

Gee...I wonder why??

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