The Scourge of Anti-Vaxxers

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The insidious thing is that there are foreign powers doing this with the intent of destabilizing/punishing the West: they target the religious and uneducated filling their heads with slightly plausible conspiracy theories. To make this work though, they make sure to create a foil: have you noticed the sharp rise in people believing things like, the Earth is flat, we never landed on the moon, or birds aren't real? This is done so that a really stupid idea sounds good, and therefore... plausible! To make things work you need to throw in a bit of esoteric information that is based on hard to prove data, or formulas that are no longer used. Oh, and you have to make a good story too like, "The government doesn't want people to know this because, XYZ..." or "We can fix this with a simple plant found in your own back yard, but greedy corporations...." But then we really do have greedy corporations doing super eff'ed up things.

Why do they do it? Well, the West does it too: payback is a real b****, isn't it?

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If evidence were so easy to find less people wold be falling for it, no? The big one is Russia though, they may not call themselves Soviets any longer but their MO is still pretty much the same...

As far as ol' traitorous Donny Dump and his sycophants go, oh hell to th' yes! He/they were/are willing to say/do anything to stay in power. His polling numbers were falling dramatically until he began pandering to the conspiracy theorists and hate groups: what better way to win than find a scapegoat and divide the country. What he and his fellow Nationalists did has been done for thousands of years, but perhaps we can compare them quite readily to the Third Reich and the Italian National Fascist Party. The scary thing is, is that they actually believe their own hype.

Carpetbaggers are nothing new, and they never seem to be capable of changing: Jim Baker?!?!? It is this same type of person who will get in line with Donny Dump because it's safe. Once they find a safe place they can start creating stories like wearing masks creates viruses, or that something like five gigahertz transmission towers cause the virus. Again, if you can make it sound even slightly plausible uneducated people will be more likely to believe it. After this you can blame anyone who is different and people will believe it: eg, blame anyone who is Asian for bringing the virus into "good-clean-white-christain-America"!

Things like vaccinations then get villanized, becoming "dangerous new technology", whereas Donny Dump is one of "us", he knows what good for "Patriots" because he was smart and invested in Colloidal Ionic Silver, let's do what he did? Never mind the fact that he had the entire American scientific community and budget an his fingertips to save him and his family and friends... How many people started drinking Lysol, or wanting to inject Clorox: but the idea of being vaccinated will kill you, or worse, make you into an Autistic-drooling-zombie!

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To further the thought: how easy is it to create a Facebook-account, not hard at all. Next couple that with it being an international phenomenon and that anyone can say they are "Good clean god fearin' 'Mericans (Americans)", super easy because they don't check--YEAH BOY! Next thing ya gotta do is find someone who'll give you media to prove to the world you're a patriot, whatever the heck that means, then faster than you can say Jack Robinson yer all set for gettin' people to believe all sorts of crazy (expletive deleted) you make up off the top of your head, you just gotta remember to make it all about "Us vs. Them". Or, conversely, you can use an AI-bot in chatrooms to get people really riled up: just plug in your criteria and SHAZAM! yer in business son.

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anti vaxxers are scum

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The coronavirus pandemic has spawned an equally concerning mis- and disinformation pandemic. The latest myth is that mRNA vaccines may trigger prion diseases like Alzheimer's.

Like the universe, the internet appears to be governed by a set of (admittedly tongue-in-cheek) "laws." The most famous is Godwin's Law, which posits that "as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1."

There are plenty of others. The coronavirus pandemic has put on grand display a lesser-known but far more important "law" known as Brandolini's Law, which claims that the "amount of energy needed to refute bullsh** is an order of magnitude larger than to produce it."

This, of course, is absolutely true. The reason is that people who spread lies are, by definition, not constrained by the truth. Making stuff up takes little effort while doing the diligent research necessary to arrive at the truth takes tremendous effort. That's why, as the adage goes, a lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth gets its shoes on.

The COVID pandemic has made this painfully clear. Among the most pernicious myths is one that claims the mRNA vaccines made by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna are a form of genetic engineering, a lie that is being perpetuated by none other than fraud doctor Andrew Wakefield.

Now, a new myth has reared its ugly head. A paper written by a well-known anti-vaxxer named J. Bart Classen and published in a scientific journal -- if we can even call it that (because it's not indexed in PubMed) -- claims that the mRNA vaccines that target coronavirus could cause prion diseases like Alzheimer's. It's total garbage.

Classen from speculating that these mRNA vaccines might trigger the misfolding of two other proteins (called TDP-43 and FUS) that are also associated with Alzheimer's (as well as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis).

His evidence is non-existent. In the methods section of the paper, Classen writes, "The vaccine RNA was analyzed for the presence of sequences that can activate TDP-43 and FUS." How was it analyzed? What software was used? Did he examine any controls, like cellular mRNA sequences? He doesn't say. He simply tells us that the COVID vaccines contain various RNA sequences that may trigger TDP-43 and FUS's misfolding.

That's it. It's entirely speculative. There's no actual evidence.

Yet, from that, he concludes that the vaccine may be worse than the disease. For good measure, he mentions that the coronavirus and the mRNA vaccines both might be bioweapons released by the U.S. government. Hopefully, he notified Fox Mulder.

One would think that this conspiracy is too kooky to go viral (no pun intended). But we've already seen people burning 5G towers because they think they spread the coronavirus. So, it's better to debunk it now before the Andrew Wakefields of the world get ahold of it.

Source: No, COVID MRNA Vaccine Won't Cause Alzheimer's Or Prion Disease