• Dimmer06 [he/him,comrade/them]
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    2 months ago

    Idk all the anti-vaxxers where I live are insane wealthy white baptists that would have been in the klan a century ago (if they aren't right now). The poorer people in town tend to get their shots.

    Maybe we should differentiate colonized/imperialized peoples that are skeptical of Western medicine because they've been victims of it from those that are Nazis that hate everything modern or any expectations of them.

  • Hexboare [they/them]
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    2 months ago

    According to Seymour Hersh the fake vaccination work wasn't even to find Bin Laden, but to cover the actual CIA asset

    Hersh writes that while Afridi was indeed a CIA asset, collecting information on militants, the fake vaccination campaign was invented as a cover story for a Pakistani military doctor who had been treating bin Laden for years, and who actually obtained DNA for the Americans.

    (Later got locked up by Pakistan, never trust the Americans lesson #286)

  • Weedian [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study

  • UltraGreen [comrade/them]
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    2 months ago

    I feel like this is counter productive and a bit strawman. Don't get me wrong, I know this is coming from a good place.

    The CIA does bad things, this is true. Horrible things. They do it through any any and every medium. Let's say vaccinations were never thought up by whatever CIA ghoul originally decided that. The same thing would have been done regardless. Maybe through fake clinics. Food banks that secretly collect DNA. A false flag chemical weapon attack that "requires medical treatment for all affected". They would have found a way.

    You should distrust the American government because they have done incalculable damage to the world, in every way imaginable. You should also distrust big pharma. Not because they push poison, (sometimes but not always) you should hate them because they profit off of the labor and expertise of thousands of scientists, doctors, engineers and all other workers.

    Anti-vax sentiment is still a danger in the western world, pushed by " individualists" who believe "it's my child, my rights!" And don't understand how their actions affect the communities they live in.