COVID19 meets the antivaccine movement

[soothsayer]

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News reports @CNN on WH Antiscience misinformation campaign now targeting Dr Fauci. I wrote this piece a few months ago predicting rise in #COVID19, drop in poll numbers, and deflection by targeting scientists. I so called this. But there’s one more piece

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7235572/

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The CDC just reported steep declines in the number of American children receiving their routine immunizations. Data from the Vaccines for Children Program (which provides one-half of federally purchased vaccines) and the Vaccine Safety Datalink, find that the US national COVID19 emergency declaration on March 13, 2020 triggered a sudden drop in childhood vaccinations. Within weeks, parents ceased bringing their children in to see their pediatrician or family healthcare provider [1] (Fig. 1 ). The steepest declines included measles-containing vaccines.

In the meantime, there are further indications measles will remain a significant health threat, due to a confluence of antivaccine activities and new social forces set into motion because of COVID19. Possibly, the antivaccine movement has grown stronger from the COVID19 pandemic, fueled with fresh conspiracies and new alliances.

In the conspiracy category, the antivaccine movement builds outrageous claims that Bill Gates or others created COVID19 as a means to create mandatory vaccines [6]. In turn, it alleges COVID19 vaccines are devices to promote the establishment of a global surveillance network, in which each of us would receive an “electronic tattoo” through injection of a vaccine data chip under the skin [7]. Or that the launch of a 5G network in Wuhan, China, created the virus or damaged the immune systems of the population to make them susceptible to the SARS-CoV2 virus [8].

Alternatively, the antivax lobby falsely claims the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the US National Institutes of Health, headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci, is behind COVID19 and funded the Wuhan Institute of Virology to perform gain-of-function research to transform an innocuous coronavirus into the lethal and transmissible SARS CoV2 virus [9]. They say Fauci and Gates profit financially from future COVID19 vaccines [10], but that even “OG (original gangster) villains” like me or Paul Offit, “the world’s top vaccine promoters” are “frantically warning us about the unique and frightening dangers inherent in developing a coronavirus vaccine” [11].

[Squinch]

1. By the time we get a vaccine and the rest of us get it, we'll be pretty experienced at

letting people die from Covid.

These assholes are a small group. We should ignore them. Let them go the way they want to.

[SoonerPride]

2. There won't be a vaccine.

Look at the other articles on people getting reinfected.

Immunization isn’t possible.

[Squinch]

3. I just saw that. Weird future we're looking at right now.

[SoonerPride]

4. +1

It will precipitate huge societal changes.

We need effective competent leadership now more than ever.

[Squinch]

5. Not going to get it till January.

[beachbumbob]

7. I place no faith in any vaccine that is rushed to market as PR stunt and not a public safety one.

The nature of COVID makes near impossible for a vaccine to work and we have so little data at this point that even those who have had it have sufficient immunity at all

[jimfields33]

8. I don't think not taking your kid to the doctor means antivaccine

I think people are Leary of going anywhere right now. Heck my doctor annual physical was conducted on the phone. First time ever. But after this virus, I’m going to request a office visit because how much can you tell over the phone.

[Squinch]

9. That's not what this article is talking about:

Alternatively, the antivax lobby falsely claims the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the US National Institutes of Health, headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci, is behind COVID19 and funded the Wuhan Institute of Virology to perform gain-of-function research to transform an innocuous coronavirus into the lethal and transmissible SARS CoV2 virus [9]. They say Fauci and Gates profit financially from future COVID19 vaccines [10], but that even “OG (original gangster) villains” like me or Paul Offit, “the world’s top vaccine promoters” are “frantically warning us about the unique and frightening dangers inherent in developing a coronavirus vaccine” [11].

[riversedge]

6. DANGEROUS SHITASSES!