Possibly the most informative thread on Omicron ever [View all]

[AntivaxHunters]

Unsure how to post this so I am going to try my best.


First off, a bit of a formal introduction of who we are. (Copy & pasted from a reply & one of our first posts on here.)

Hello Democratic Underground!
We are AntivaxHunters ( @AntivaxHunters on Twitter ), a group of nearly 50 doctor's, front line healthcare workers (nurses who work in Covid ICU units), epidemiologists, scientific vaccine & virus researchers, and people who's lives have been directly impacted by Covid (in my case, the loss of my mother). Our mission is to fight back against Covid misinformation by any means possible. Covid misinformation kills and we closely align with the beliefs of the group No License For Disinformation @NLFD_org on Twitter.

We come from all political backgrounds; Democrats, Socialists, Republicans, Greens, Libertarians, & Independents, who have come together with the sole mission to counter Covid misinformation. Misinformation is literally killing people and it impacts everyone from every political affiliation you can imagine. And sadly, that includes Democrats too who have fallen to the grift of far right antivax doctor's like Dr. Robert Malone & others.

We don't plan on engaging in any posts that aren't Covid related and we seek your help in our fight against Covid misinformation. We joined here in hopes of raising awareness of how bad Covid misinformation on social media, specifically on sites like Twitter, who isn't doing enough to fight against it. We're aware many of use Twitter and we'll be sharing posts of examples of tweets we feel are Covid misinformation that need to be reported & removed off Twitter. And yes, knowing that Democratic voters are overwhelming pro-vaccine & pro-mandate as we all are is a huge reason why we decided to join. We seek your solidarity with us.
----Thanks!


We thought it would be a good idea to share this thread on Omicron & Covid in general with those of you on Democratic Underground. There's many questions about the Omicron variant & Covid. Understandably so considering the signal to noise ratio is absolutely astounding. The amount of misinformation out there is both dangerous & deadly that fringe antivaxers, mostly far right extremists with Liberals and leftists mixed in among their movement, push to the masses on social media sites like Twitter & Facebook.

That said, we hope this helps answer some of the questions you may have on Omicron. Please note, the author is not affiliated with us in any way but the information contained within is incredibly valuable, informative, and educational. It does get a bit in the weeds as far as science goes however it's a very worthy read at basically 70 tweets deep. It also provides the pushback you need with engaging antivaxers.

Using threadreader, the entire unroll is here https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1478611650760437765.html

Here are a few highlights of the many tweets and there's plenty more too, screencapped so everyone on here can read them.