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#antivax — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. #RFKJr, then a prominent #AntiVax activist, preceded the visit with a letter to the Samoan prime minister requesting to study the Pacific island nation’s #measles, #mumps & #rubella [ #MMR ] #vaccines after the deaths of 2 children who had received them. In the letter, he used the words vaccine or vaccination 8 times.

    #PublicHealth #science #medicine #Trump #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #law #policy #regulations #insurance #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #SocialCleansing #eugenics

  2. @jik One of my sibs is now as antivax as RFK thanks to #antivax propaganda that got very slick in 2020. The book How Fascism Works talks about how fash propaganda fractures our previously shared reality, which makes it easier for fascists to take & keep power.

    In a recent #TWIV episode, the host shared a story from the recent American Society for Virology conference: "SSPE. This is a late sequalae to #measles. It is uniformly fatal. It is rare. But. These kids who had measles, cuz they weren't vaccinated, they get this disease, neurological degeneration and they all die. & when they're sick, the parents call my host, Roberto Cattaneo, and say, 'What can I do? The doctors tell me there's nothing to do. Can we #vaccinate him now?' Parents don't understand. This is rare but you will lose your child if he gets SSPE. So get vaccinated. . . . [The incidence is] 1 in [10,000 but] if the child gets it in the first year of life, the incidence is 1 in 600."
    microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-1344/
    #ThisWeekInVirology

  3. #Measles Cases Hit New Record in #US, as #Vaccination Rates Wane

    The #Trump admin under #RFKJr’s #HHS has sent “mixed messages” on vaccinations against measles as cases have continued to climb. [RFKJr says don’t vax, while actual scientists & doctors attempt to counter his crazy]

    #PublicHealth #Health #vaccines #science #medicine #policy #USpol #ConspiracyTheories #AntiVax #eugenics #disinformation #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #SocialCleansing #plutocracy
    nytimes.com/2026/07/24/well/me

  4. #RFKJr Is Driving a Vast Inquiry Into #Vaccines Despite Recent Public Silence

    “Health” Secy Robert F Kennedy Jr has toned down his public criticism of vaccines, under orders from the White House. But inside the #HHS, a sprawling “research” effort is top priority.

    #Trump #ConspiracyTheories #AntiVax #eugenics #disinformation #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #SocialCleansing #HealthInsurance #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #PublicHealth #Health #science #medicine #policy #USpol
    nytimes.com/2026/05/11/health/

  5. @jascha All scientists should be heard. The kinds of scientists that maybe should NOT be heard are #Christian Scientists, #Creation Scientists, Industry-funded scientists, Astrologers, #Numerologists, Homeopathy researchers, #Conversiontherapy advocates, #FlatEarth researchers, #Antivax scientists, #Phrenologists, #Eugenicists, #SovereignCitizen legal scientists, #Cryptozoologists

  6. #JosephineBallon & #AnnaLenaVonHodenberg lead a German #LegalAid organization that assists individuals facing #online #abuse & #violent #threats.

    #ClareMelford runs a British group that helps identify #disinformation.

    #ImranAhmed is a British activist who runs an organization that has chronicled #antivax #content #on socialmedia.

    On Tuesday, the #Trump admin accused all of them of a campaign of “censorship” against Americans.

    #law #propaganda #immigration #tech #moderation #RevengePolitics

  7. #BillCassidy voted to confirm #RFKJr as “health” secretary earlier this year after getting a promise from Kennedy to not push his #AntiVax agenda. Either the brain worm ate the memory of the promise, or RFKJr was full of shit as usual.

    Now let’s see if Cassidy does anything about it…

    #PublicHealth #HealthCare #science #medicine #Trump #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #law #policy #regulations #insurance #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #SocialCleansing #eugenics

  8. Targeting the CDC: Police are operating under the theory that the gunman was either sick or believed that he was sick and blamed the illness on the Covid-19 vaccine, a law enforcement official told CNN. An employee at the CDC, which is near Emory, told CNN he saw a man approach agency’s HQ and shoot at the building.

    edition.cnn.com/us/live-news/a

    #CDC #antivax #EmoryUniversity #covid

  9. How Philosophy Failed the Pandemic, Or: When Did Agamben Become Alex Jones?
    by Benjamin Bratton

    "As of today, Agamben’s biggest online supporters are not his many long time readers but rather a squad of new fans, primarily a Based coalition of wounded contrarian man-childs."

    Agamben is the new Ayn Rand.

    lithub.com/how-philosophy-fail

    #philosophy #AltRight #AntiVax #Agamben

  10. @epistatacadam

    It's a novel approach! 😂😂

    I get where you're coming from. I was an early #COVID sceptic (not #antivax) until a mate who was working on the vaccine put me straight with empirical evidence. I then fell foul of the #Plandemic & antivax brigade! 🙄

    A friend who I repeatedly clashed with online over COVID tragically died 18 months into the #Pandemic.

    Unfortunately he succumbed to the very COVID he said didn't exist. He was ill for days & refused to seek medical help. C19 got him. 😓