I remember when there was that big pro-vaccine push on reddit years back before Covid started.
Yeah, that was weird, and obviously astroturfed to hell and back. It wasn't just Reddit, either. They were pushing that shit everywhere, and it was creepy. Doesn't matter what the topic is, someone could find a way to slip in a dig against those creepy antivaxxers. It was everywhere.
Part of the psyop was an absolute refusal to admit any problems with vaccines.
I'd follow up after a vaccine is totally harmless comment that actually 1 in a few million die from a vaccine so they're not totally harmless and they'd say "look an anti-vaxxer get 'em!"
If the response was "Ok Mr. Literal you're wasting our time with that" I could see that, but the response was always that saying vaccines could ever cause any harm at all was putting lives in danger. Complete psychos.
Yeah, that was weird, and obviously astroturfed to hell and back. It wasn't just Reddit, either. They were pushing that shit everywhere, and it was creepy. Doesn't matter what the topic is, someone could find a way to slip in a dig against those creepy antivaxxers. It was everywhere.
Part of the psyop was an absolute refusal to admit any problems with vaccines.
I'd follow up after a vaccine is totally harmless comment that actually 1 in a few million die from a vaccine so they're not totally harmless and they'd say "look an anti-vaxxer get 'em!"
If the response was "Ok Mr. Literal you're wasting our time with that" I could see that, but the response was always that saying vaccines could ever cause any harm at all was putting lives in danger. Complete psychos.
And everyone was acting like fucking measles was a death sentence