Anti-Vaccine Disinformation Campaign Echoes 'Doctor's Plot' Rhetoric

[Nevilledog]

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An ongoing medical disinformation campaign took a sharp turn in July 2021, when right-wing commentators and politicians pivoted to direct attacks against continued efforts by the Biden administration to get more Americans vaccinated against COVID-19.

The disinformation started to reach new keening heights during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), whose QAnon-embracing ranks went out of their way to push conspiracy theories in order to politicize any measures taken to slow the spread of the pandemic, which has so far killed more than half a million Americans.

This routinely weaponized rhetoric to which conservative messaging has pivoted in near unison espouses long-discredited conspiracy theories about “depopulation” caused by the COVID-19 vaccine — while simultaneously justifying the mass deaths and suffering the virus has already caused (and betraying a fundamental misunderstanding of evolution):

Newsmax anchor Rob Schmitt cavalierly suggested on Friday night that vaccines are “against nature” because some diseases are just “supposed to wipe out a certain amount of people” since that’s just the “way evolution goes.”

In recent weeks, right-wing media has seamlessly shifted from casually pushing vaccine hesitancy on its viewers to outright advocating for vaccine resistance, culminating in a crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Texas this weekend cheering at the fact that the federal government hasn’t met its vaccination goals.

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[Enter stage left]

1. This might get me banned...

But

FUCK THEM!

I hope they all die, less fucking repuq voter in the next elections.

[JesterCS]

4. I agree 100%,

If they're that dumb, they deserve what happens

[dsc]

5. but the people pushing this won't die because they by and large have been vaccinated

Rupert Murdock got vaccinated before literally anyone in the US who wasn't in a study (the UK approved the vaccine about a week before we did and he was vaccinated on the first day in the UK), Tucker Carlson won't tell us if he has or hasn't been vaccinated and Fox News being a corp almost certainly is requiring either vaccination or social distancing which Tucker isn't doing, Trump got vaccinated in secret along with his family. I could go on.

[RainCaster]

2. That fine Christian anchor believes evolution

The GOP has gone fully bat shit crazy.

[tanyev]

3. He knows that it's mostly the Newsmax audience that will be getting wiped out, right?