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

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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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