Buying into stigma by seeking “discreet” solutions is individualist hopium.
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Marty Makary is a covid contrarian, cozy with anti-vaxxers.
There’s good reason he’s welcomed into the seedy MAGA ranks of Trumpy Trumpworld.
Natural herd immunity debt misinfo inexplicably published in liberal media in November 2024.
The CDC warns that a respiratory illness preceding a case of walking pneumonia can increase the risk of severity. But Huffpost wants people to blame mask mandates from 3+ years ago.
Twitter was just a tool, a tavern that’s changed hands.
It’s not the world, it never was – even at its height, only a small percentage of Americans were ever even on Twitter.
The grass is not that much greener on the blue sky.
Don’t Wait For Everybody – Episode 013
Pandemic Revisionist History.
I don’t know how these things got memory holed other than there’s been just a continuous firehose of covid minimization, pandemic disinformation, and lockdown revisionism…
Neera Tanden’s missteps and the disability justice information space.
A reputation that was never that great. Neera Tanden has been accused of Hatch Act violations while working at the White House. This embarrassment is not unexpected sadly. Government Executive – Senior White House official violated the Hatch Act, OSC says A filing with the Merit Systems Protection Board alleges that Biden’s domestic policy advisor […]
Right-wing talk show used Steve Hassan’s BITE model for anti-mask propaganda.
there was a right-wing talk show on broadcast radio where the talk show hosts were using Steve Hassan’s cult “BITE model” to assert anti-mask propaganda…
Vaccine uptake is really low, so why are the anti-vaxxers still so riled up?
It’s like the trucker convoy people protesting public health mitigations that had no longer existed for quite awhile.
The disinfo campaigns around the pandemic are the same disinfo campaigns around climate change.
It’s part of a whole disinformation economy.
Big money industry interests have been on the side of disease all along.
On Knowledge Fight podcast #961, one of the guys said that Alex Jones worked for Covid-19 for free. But there was money behind spreading covid on purpose.
Strawman tactic campaign ads.
404 Media is reporting that the Elon Musk super pac has set up more strawman ads pretending to be Democrats or Harris, targeting Republicans saying mandatory gun buyback, giving medicare to undocumented immigrants, and banning cigarettes.
Trump sending tests to Putin — part of a larger cynical pandemic narrative.
So many of these journalists and reporters knew all sorts of things but you don’t find out until they release the “bombshell” books.
Trump said he wants to let RFK Jr. “go wild on” health, food, and medicines.
RFK Jr. is an anti-vaxxer who promoted an anti-vaxxer in Samoa…
Ron Desantis sure seems anti-vax, since he chose Joe Ladapo.
Ron Desantis doesn’t have to keep Joe Ladapo as the Florida surgeon general.
Trump rally streams still pushing ivermectin.
stream from the Trump rally at Madison Square garden with a 3-way split screen with the featured comedian in the middle, a view of the entire arena filled with people on the left, and on the right an advertisement for ivermectin
Making Novavax into a meme stock is a threat to public health.
All 3 vaccines approved in the U.S., from Pfizer, Moderna, and Novavax, are basically in the same ballpark with efficacy. There really haven’t been head to head studies of the 3 covid vaccines, of any size to say much about comparing them directly. But they all wane in efficacy over time, and that’s why there […]
The signs are there — people are still avoiding the virus.
Many people, especially older people, are still avoiding covid.
Right-wing pandemic denier political event in Pennsylvania.
Important Context – Who’s Speaking At the 2024 Brownstone Institute Conference? This year’s fringe fest shows the extent of the anti-science group’s influence. Walker Bragman, Allison Neitzel, and Natalie Jonas Oct 28, 2024 The panel lineup of the 2024 Pittsburgh conference not only illustrates how wide Brownstone’s influence web has become, but how unifying—and animating—public […]