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COVID vaccines: time to confront anti-vax aggression
Nature ^ | April 27, 2021 | Peter Hotez

Posted on 05/06/2021 2:04:16 PM PDT by Wallace T.

Nearly one billion COVID-19 vaccine doses have been delivered in less than six months, but anti-vaccine disinformation and targeted attacks on scientists are undermining progress. These threats must be confronted directly, and the authority and expertise of the health community alone aren’t enough to do this.

Efforts must expand into the realm of cyber security, law enforcement, public education and international relations. A high-level inter-agency task force reporting to the UN secretary-general could assess the full impact of anti-vaccine aggression, and propose tough, balanced measures. The task force should include experts who have tackled complex global threats such as terrorism, cyber attacks and nuclear armament, because anti-science is now approaching similar levels of peril. It is becoming increasingly clear that advancing immunization requires a counteroffensive.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: antivax; chinavirusvaccine; coronafascism; covid19; fauxccine; firstamendment; hotez; informedconsent; mybodymychoice; nature; naturemag; nazis; nuremburg; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; petechimpsout; peterhotez; peterhotwz; peterjayhotez; statism; tuskegee; vaccination
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To: ifinnegan

Make that point more clearly in your next rant, then, please?


101 posted on 05/06/2021 4:02:51 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

I’ve been looking for an article that front up states that you cannot harvest living tissue lines from dead tissue ... meaning no tissue lines came from stillborn babies. The only sure way to get a living cell line was from a living “donor”.

I was only able to find this one.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/04/15/federal-government-caught-buying-fresh-flesh-of-aborted-babies-who-could-have-survived-as-preemies/


102 posted on 05/06/2021 4:04:37 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: cld51860
This nightmare is not going to end, is it?

Nope.

103 posted on 05/06/2021 4:06:09 PM PDT by itsahoot (The election was stolen and there isn't a dang thang you can do about it. )
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To: RetiredTexasVet

National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 (NCVIA)


104 posted on 05/06/2021 4:09:19 PM PDT by firebrand ( )
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To: bgill

I’m part of the control group in this experiment.


105 posted on 05/06/2021 4:20:33 PM PDT by 17strings (If you've posted a good meme or cat .gif, chances are I've stolen it!)
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To: DennisR

I suspect nearly all of us “lunatics” who aren’t rushing out to take the non-FDA approved Covid vaccines have taken all of the other standard vaccines since we were kids - like myself. You brainwashed wanna be Liberal cuck.


106 posted on 05/06/2021 4:23:20 PM PDT by Treeless Branch
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To: 17strings
I’m part of the control group in this experiment.

I think those of us not taking it are more of an uncontrolled group.

107 posted on 05/06/2021 4:28:25 PM PDT by Stentor
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To: Jan_Sobieski
A. I got over Marsha in 1974

Yes, but did you get over Mucho Grande?

108 posted on 05/06/2021 4:30:18 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I'm not a thief! I said I'm a cat butler not a cat burglar.)
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To: Wallace T.; silverleaf; Boogieman; ifinnegan; SkyDancer; CondoleezzaProtege; Billthedrill; ...
A couple cherry-pickings from the article.

Let them sink in.

One campaign implies that it could turn people into monkeys.

This builds on a longer, well-documented history of Russia-sponsored disinformation, presumably to destabilize the United States and other democratic countries. The administration of US President Joe Biden has warned Russian media groups to halt their anti-vaccine aggression

Many far-right extremist groups that spread false information about last year’s US presidential election are doing the same about vaccines.

This is the call for a totalitarian purge, using the full force of the US government, based on baldface lies.

"RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA." "FAR RIGHT EXTREMIST GROUPS THAT SPREAD FALSE INFORMATION."

They ALWAYS go back to the same playbook. = = = = = =

1."Nearly one billion COVID-19 vaccine doses have been delivered in less than six months, but anti-vaccine disinformation and targeted attacks on scientists are undermining progress. These threats must be confronted directly, and the authority and expertise of the health community alone aren’t enough to do this."

2."Even before the pandemic, I had a front-row seat to all of this. I have co-led efforts to develop vaccines in programmes, including a COVID-19 vaccine currently being tested in India."

3."Teams of experts, including me, began meeting regularly online to discuss how best to amplify evidence-based messages, deliver public-service announcements and address concerns around COVID-19 immunization."

4."...when I ask for a more direct way to counter anti-vaccine aggression, I’m told, “that’s not our approach; confrontation gives them a platform and oxygen.” In my opinion, this attitude reflects a time when we had dial-up modems. Today, the anti-vaccine empire has hundreds of websites and perhaps 58 million followers on social media. The bad guys are winning, in part because health agencies either underestimate or deny the reach of anti-science forces, and are ill-equipped to counter it."

5. the US State Department and the UK Foreign Office have described how Russian intelligence organizations seek to discredit Western COVID-19 vaccines. One campaign implies that it could turn people into monkeys. This builds on a longer, well-documented history of Russia-sponsored disinformation, presumably to destabilize the United States and other democratic countries. The administration of US President Joe Biden has warned Russian media groups to halt their anti-vaccine aggression, and announced sanctions tied to disinformation and other behaviour, but we need much more."

6."According to the London-based Center for Countering Digital Hate, these are influential groups, not a spontaneous grass-roots movement. Many far-right extremist groups that spread false information about last year’s US presidential election are doing the same about vaccines."

109 posted on 05/06/2021 4:47:04 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: wgmalabama

“This isn’t even the end game, this is the beta beta test. You will all either bow or be targeted.”

True, it’s not even really about the vaccine, which I think they know is pretty ineffective at this point, especially with multiple variants already flourishing in the wild. It’s about getting us all to submit, even getting people to crave submission rather than freedom.

It’s like domesticating an animal. The hardest part is getting that saddle or yoke on the first time. After that, they “gentle down” pretty quick and stop fighting.


110 posted on 05/06/2021 5:02:28 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

If you look at all of the recent CDC craziness re what the vaccinated can and cannot do from the perspective of the CDC knows that vaccines don’t really work well, they make a lot more sense.


111 posted on 05/06/2021 5:07:40 PM PDT by Treeless Branch
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To: Boogieman

What is the thing, do you suspect, that the the deep state eugenicistic population-extirpators will cynically stage and present in the very near future that they will immediately begin to use as the biggest cudgel yet, the fearful and cataclysmic “game changing event” to finally reduce the remaining hardcore “antivaxxers” into rubble and use their earthly remains as human paving stones to lead the “vaccine hesitant” into the mRNA funhouse?

Because as we saw in the fall of 2020, these people are no longer satisfied with leaving a single thing to chance when it comes to their future plans.


112 posted on 05/06/2021 5:21:00 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: Treeless Branch

Well, for one thing, people have this idea that vaccines are supposed to be 100% (or close to it) effective in granting you immunity, and immunity that lasts a decade or more. After all, most of the vaccines that older people got when we were younger were like that. But apparently that is only true for vaccines that use a live-attenuated (weakened version) virus, and the other types of vaccines that are more common now never work as effectively.

So even if they got these vaccines working properly, all the different versions, without proper testing, they still would expect them to only give something like 50-70% immunity, not 100% immunity, and it would last for a much shorter period of time. The CDC and all the doctors know that, even if the public has this general misconception.

On top of that, they also must know about the nature of coronaviruses, that they are fast-mutating viruses we have never had any real success vaccinating against, even if they don’t want to admit that to the public. So I think they know, even in the best case scenario, if 100% of the people were vaccinated, it wouldn’t completely stop the virus, only slow it down, and only if we get very lucky and some other variant doesn’t start spreading more successfully than the one we designed the vaccine against.


113 posted on 05/06/2021 5:24:29 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: one guy in new jersey

Well, I don’t even think the vaccine stuff is their “end game” or necessarily has anything to do with it. Maybe it does, but I think it’s just prepping us to submit to the next thing the government wants to demand. Just like the “two week lockdown” was prepping us for 3 month lockdowns, and then masks in the stores, then masks everywhere, and permanent lockdowns, etc.

I don’t think they care that people are resisting them about vaccines particularly, they just care that people are RESISTING them, period. They have this goal to seize absolute power without all the messy bloodshed that came along with that in the 20th century, so they want to get mass acceptance at each incremental step of their plan, to pave the way for the next step.


114 posted on 05/06/2021 5:59:18 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Wallace T.

The quack, Hotez, is a Nazi. Fact.

Make no mistake, there are a number of Branch Covidian Cultist Nazis on FR who completely agree with this Nazi. They also proudly support the Nazi vaccine passports.

These monsters need to be put firmly in their place.


115 posted on 05/06/2021 6:19:51 PM PDT by CrimsonTidegirl (“The fate of all mankind, I see, is in the hands of fools”-King Crimson)
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To: nascarnation

Cease your childish propaganda.

In worshipping your vaccine, you side with Xiden, China and Hollywood.

Stop harassing people to get your “holy” jab. The more that your kind harasses people , the more I am determined to never get the jabs.


116 posted on 05/06/2021 6:28:30 PM PDT by CrimsonTidegirl (“The fate of all mankind, I see, is in the hands of fools”-King Crimson)
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To: Wallace T.
Make no mistake, government will not be the ones directly implementing vax mandates. They will hide behind "rights" of business owners to permanently change the immune system of their employee's. The fact that the mandates originate from the federal government working with Pharma through NiH/CDC/FDA, making them federal govt mandates, is concealed in their arguments.
117 posted on 05/06/2021 6:30:42 PM PDT by SecAmndmt (Aim small, miss small)
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To: Wallace T.
but anti-vaccine disinformation and targeted attacks on scientists are undermining progress. These threats must be confronted directly, and the authority and expertise of the health community alone aren’t enough to do this.

Blubberty!!!

IF ONLY these poor outnumbered scientists had the TOTAL SUPPORT AND CENSORSHIP of all of social media and The Media, and most of the political class in the US!

Oh, wait...

118 posted on 05/06/2021 6:59:46 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Wallace T.

Souunds like ol’ Pete here has a severe hemp deficiency that a topical application might help with...


119 posted on 05/06/2021 7:00:56 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: ifinnegan

120 posted on 05/06/2021 7:12:48 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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