Posted on 07/05/2020 1:24:16 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Within days of the first confirmed novel coronavirus case in the United States on 20 January, antivaccine activists were already hinting on Twitter that the virus was a scam—part of a plot to profit from an eventual vaccine.
Nearly half a year later, scientists around the world are rushing to create a COVID-19 vaccine. An approved product is still months, if not years, away and public health agencies have not yet mounted campaigns to promote it. But health communication experts say they need to start to lay the groundwork for acceptance now, because the flood of misinformation from antivaccine activists has surged.
Such activists have “kicked into overdrive,” says Neil Johnson, a physicist at George Washington University who studies the dynamics of antivaccine groups on social networks. He estimates that in recent months, 10% of the Facebook pages run by people asking questions about vaccines have already switched to antivaccine views.
Recent polls have found as few as 50% of people in the United States are committed to receiving a vaccine, with another quarter wavering. Some of the communities most at risk from the virus are also the most leery: Among Black people, who account for nearly one-quarter of U.S. COVID-19 deaths, 40% said they wouldn’t get a vaccine in a mid-May poll by the Associated Press and the University of Chicago. In France, 26% said they wouldn’t get a coronavirus vaccine.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is now working on a plan to boost “vaccine confidence” as part of the federal effort to develop a vaccine, Director Robert Redfield told a Senate committee this week. Advocates urge campaigns that include personal messages and storytelling.
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Hawkaw the Commie Karen speaks. Tell me: 1) How will you stop the information against this gene experiment (it's NOT a real vaccient) from getting out? 2) HOW WILL YOU FORCE ME to take it?
You post cute graphs, but MANY of us DO NOT BELIEVE the data. They are massively boosting “cases” by adding in, for example, men who come in for a vasectomy, but test positive for their fake SARS-CoV-2 test. I don’t believe ANY of these “cases” data. The deaths are going down, even thought they also are being massively padded.
This isn't SMALLPOX, liar. People like you have contributed to this worldwide panic, and you are going to stand before God and answer for your part in this.
Then it will be war. Death before taking their genetic modification.
Then, I guess I will have to retire.
“If you read this article, it my explain a lot as to how come and why people are being manipulated”
I read through the whole article and am not sure what to make of it. Maybe you can clarify.
I’m not an anti-vaccine guy. I’ve taken the usual bunch.
I interpreted the “just 50% ...” to mean those folks weren’t worried about getting the disease or its seriousness to them. I wasn’t thinking they were anti-all-vaccines people.
I didn’t say SARS-CoV-2 is smallpox.
I said that not all viruses weaken and disappear on their own. That was the claim made, that all viruses weaken and disappear on their own. Do you agree with me that not all viruses weaken and disappear on their own? Or you do believe that things like smallpox and polio are not real?
Very interesting article and brings up facts and points I had not read. Perhaps this virus was made at Ft. Detrick.
No
You are spreading LIES. Smallpox is NOT an RNA virus, and you know it. The Smallpox vaccine is made from killed virus, and you know it. Any potential COVID-19 vaccine will NOT be made from killed virus, but from an engineered organism, and you know it. Stop spreading lies, and comparing this abomination to the Smallpox vaccine.
Who needs publik screwel anyway?
Hi Steve:
I am not stopping you in anyway. I am just making a point about the problems public health has let happen. You are more than welcome to not take the vaccine. Have a nice day, Steve.
What on Earth are you talking about? Everything you’re calling a “lie” is something I never said.
Are you replying to the wrong post or something?
Nope.
I have completely lost trust in big pharma and have even less in the government, which puts it in the negative category.
The noob is here to cause trouble.
We can all see it.
Sign up date of May 7, 2020.
Why are you here?
To push mandatory vaccines for big pharma?
You are ignoring basic biology that smallpox is NOT a corona virus.
Show us one successful corona virus and then you MIGHT have a case.
If not, our troll radar is going off.
I’ve never pushed for mandatory vaccines. That’s just fake news.
What I have done is support President Trump’s push for a safe and effective vaccine being made available to end this nightmare. From your last comment, you apparently want him to fail. Which means you want the nightmare and the shutdowns and the economic destruction to continue indefinitely. Good luck with that. President Trump isn’t going to let this go until he’s succeeded. And according to him, we’re close.
You said what I had in mind, but left it alone for time being. I wonder what it will be like when Trump gets re-elected and I hope he does keeping this country from sliding any further into the abyss of socialism. So far he has done a magnificent job. Stay healthy and well and lets hope for the best.
I would not be surprised if this turns out to be true, over the years I lost a lot of trust in the US government. But for time being it is the best we got.
I have to admit, I didn’t plan on it myself. But knowing what I know now, I would definitely get it. Of course its too late for me, 11 days now with Covid and it has kicked my ass, and my wife is in the hospital with it.
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