Inside the Mind of an Anti-vaxxer
The majority of Americans will need to take the coming COVID-19 vaccine. Here’s how to persuade those who won’t want to.
The convoy is not peaceful: megalist
The Ottawa convoy is not peaceful: megalist I recommend reading this (if you are not in Ottawa) with this drone footage on full volume, to get the full, horrible, experience. This list contains exclusively incidents in Ottawa, and does not account for actions in other Canadian cities or at the b...
The "Convoy"
Scientific Community Issues Fresh Warning to Congress as 'Radical' Trump Returns | Common Dreams
With a president-elect who denies the climate crisis and threatens to dismantle regulations, scientists and advocates are pleading with lawmakers to defend science. Will you stand up for the future of our planet and the health of generations to come? #ProtectScience #ClimateAction.
Zuckerberg says the Biden Admin pushed Meta to take down true information related to Vaccine Side Effects...
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Research Finds Vaccines Are Not Behind the Rise in Autism. So What Is? | Hacker News
Eugenics & Statements
Democrats blast Republicans for ‘fueling a political agenda’ with Covid report and push back on lab leak claim | The Independent
Republicans and Democrats on the House subcommittee to evaluate the pandemic response, released two very different reports this week
'Any and all': Trump’s former surgeon general warns Republicans will own disease outbreaks
Dr. Jerome Adams, who served as the U.S. Surgeon General during the first Trump administration, is warning Republicans that they will own any disease outbreaks that occur on their watch. President-elect Donald Trump has made controversial nominations for public health roles, including Robert F. Kenn...
Medscape: US Autism Diagnoses Rose 175% From 2011 to 2022
Autism diagnoses surged by 175% in the United States from 2011 to 2022, with the greatest relative increases in young adults, women, and children in multiple racial and ethnic groups.
Revealed: International ‘race science’ network secretly funded by US tech boss | Race | The Guardian
Group promoting ‘dangerous’ scientific racism ideology teamed up with rightwing extremist, recordings reveal
A Moment for Canada’s Far Right, Still Struggling for Support - The New York Times
The country’s political system has made it hard for fringe groups to gain influence. But a new cause, and fund-raising across borders, could begin to fuel Canadian populists.
B.J. Dichter, who was listed on the convoy’s official fund-raiser alongside Ms. Lich, has said that “political Islam” is “rotting away at our society like syphilis.”
The organizers are mostly fringe activists, rather than truck drivers, an overwhelming majority of whom are vaccinated.
Pat King, who is listed as an official contact for a regional group involved in the protest and has been a prominent champion of the protests online, has called Covid a “man-made bioweapon” and claimed that international financiers seek to “depopulate the Anglo-Saxon race.” He has said of lockdowns, “The only way that this is going to be solved is with bullets.”
“You did have far-right populism — historically it was there — but it was isolated,” said Jeffrey S. Kopstein, a Canadian political scientist at the University of California, Irvine.
Canada’s populist right has lagged, Dr. Kopstein said, in part because the typical drivers of such movements — cultural polarization and white racial resentment — are less prevalent in the country than in other Western nations.
The country’s large and politically well-organized immigrant populations mean that both major parties see greater gain in courting immigrants than in cultivating white backlash.
As a result, Canada’s Conservative leaders have neither embraced nor been co-opted by the more extreme elements in their base to the same degree as some other right-wing parties.
Romana Didulo, a Canadian QAnon activist who has called for military executions of doctors who vaccinate children.
Canada’s populist right, though homegrown, is also heavily influenced by its far more numerous and better-resourced American counterparts. This helps provide the movement with energy and direction, though often in ways that hinder its influence in Canada, where Donald J. Trump is deeply unpopular.
But in years since, populist movements across the Western world have continued to rise and to coordinate across borders, helping to aid their Canadian counterparts’ slow but steady growth.
In a demonstration of this effect in action, a number of American political and media figures, including Mr. Trump, have forcefully endorsed or promoted the trucker protests. Americans are thought to have provided much of the $8 million raised online for the convoy.
And there is another change: Canada’s Conservative Party, after a difficult year, may be rethinking its longstanding practice of isolating conservative fringes.
Party officials recently ousted Erin O’Toole, the party leader, in part, they said, for insufficiently embracing the truck protests.
The new interim leader attracted controversy last year when a photo surfaced showing her wearing a Make America Great Again hat. Several Conservative lawmakers have since visited the protests in support. One was photographed alongside Mr. King, the white nationalist and conspiracy theorist, though later issued a statement condemning “any violent rhetoric.”
In some ways, support for the protests seems to reflect public opinion oscillations related more to the pandemic than to the far right.
Shared from Bing: Alberta’s COVID Legacy: Anti-science Fever and Deep Distrust | The Tyee
The pandemic sparked a wave of anger, and the UCP is making things worse.
What We All Need to Know About J.D. Vance
He matters.
https://www.reddit.com/r/onguardforthee/comments/1dxvjr8/poilievre_is_a_liar_hes_a_liar_hes_a_liar_i_have/
Why is there now such an affinity between antivaxxers and fascism?
Increasingly, the antivaccine movement has become allied with fascism, including openly fascist groups marching in their rallies. Why?
Jordan Peterson Gets Mad About COVID Vaccines
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Europe excess deaths and COVID vaccination rates: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10357837/pdf/fimmu-14-1151311.pdf
COVID vaccines and all-cause mortality: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9763207/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9319484/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10043280/
Excess deaths vs. confirmed COVID deaths: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-deaths-daily-economist-single-entity
NHS emergency crisis led to excess deaths: https://www.ft.com/content/f36c5daa-9c14-4a92-9136-19b26508b9d2
Extended lockdowns increased alcohol abuse: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8183243/
How lockdowns should be used: https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/herd-immunity-lockdowns-and-covid-19
COVID mRNA vaccine phase 1-3 clinical trials:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2022483
Myocarditis:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X24001270?via%3Dihub
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(22)00059-5/fulltext#tbl1
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41541-023-00681-3
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35442390/
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2793551
https://www.cmaj.ca/content/194/45/E1529
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7035e5.htm
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2780548
https://bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/2/1/e000373
Children are not at no risk from COVID: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-2021-08-30/06-COVID-Rosenblum-508.pdf
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7003e1.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7116e1.htm
https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-Focus-on-Ages-0-18-Yea/nr4s-juj3/about_data
How COVID vaccines still worked against omicron: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04778-y
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04527-1
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04460-3
List of essential medications: https://www.fda.gov/media/143406/download?attachment
CDC 2024 Vaccination schedule: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/index.html
We don’t give too many vaccines too soon: https://vaxopedia.org/2016/09/04/too-many-too-soon/
Smallpox vaccine mandates: https://www.history.com/news/smallpox-vaccine-supreme-court
Some vaccine mandates are good: https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002578
Yes…mRNA vaccines are vaccines: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciimmunol.abl5344
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.abm0829
The real process of science: https://undsci.berkeley.edu/understanding-science-101/how-science-works/the-real-process-of-science/
Long term effects of vaccines: https://www.chop.edu/news/long-term-side-effects-covid-19-vaccine
Examples of vaccine safety reporting from around the world: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine-adverse-reactions/coronavirus-vaccine-summary-of-yellow-card-reporting
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8721273/
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanwpc/article/PIIS2666-6065(22)00057-8/fulltext
https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/vaccine-safety/archive/2022-01-28/summary.html
Meting slides discussing VAERS results and follow-up: https://www.fda.gov/media/159007/download
How a study of VAERS should be done: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(22)00054-8/fulltext
Officers weren’t told of threats to harm police: RCMP ‘Freedom Convoy’ report | Globalnews.ca
An internal review of the RCMP's response to the "Freedom Convoy" protests found that some officers at the scene of an Alberta blockade were unaware of threats to harm police.
The extraordinary conceitedness of being an anti-vaxxer : r/skeptic
Federal Court finds Emergencies Act orders exceed government’s powers | Insights | Torys LLP
This is *exactly what I predicted would be the case - I wrote about it in one of my essays saying let the courts decide - this is akin to shattering a glass on the floor and asking everyone to freeze, once the mess is cleaned up we'll have the hindsight to review how we did. "Surprisingly, the judge specifically noted that had he “been at [the federal cabinet’s] tables at that time” he might have agreed it was necessary to invoke the Act, but in conducting the judicial review, he had “the benefit of hindsight” and a “more extensive record of the facts”.
Far-Right Convoy Groups Plan to Occupy Canadian Police Stations Until Government Officials are Arrested
Loll losers - let's watch this go down in flames as well
182: Recovering from Conspiracy Theories (w/Stephanie Kemmerer) — Conspirituality
This one is *mission critical * - PLEASE listen & share!
Covering topics from AI/algorithms, 9/11, vaccines and how to escape through *actually critical thinking. And how conspirituality deflects from *actual evidence based conspiracies such as Fred Hampton, Epstein, Catholic child abuse - all symptoms of colonial capitalism.
Aso - shameless plug, this once again validates all my pandemic writing, up to and including the mentioning of Naomi Klein's disaster capitalism and especially her latest book Doppelganger which is *precisely what I've been saying throughout but is obviously FAR more comprehensive.
Conspirituality, Polarization & Anti-Vax Fascism#references: misinfo 3#conspirituality & diagonalism
How the Wellness Community Lost Its Mind: Part Two
Continuing my review and exploration of Conspirituality
15 Surprising, Strange and Troubling Details Buried in the Emergencies Act Inquiry’s Final Report
We did a close-reading of the Inquiry’s 2,092 page final report
Calls for Trudeau to step down during ‘Freedom Convoy’ traced back to Russi
Beyond overt propaganda outlets, like Russia’s RT, disinformation spread through proxy sites and on social media messaging apps like Telegram, which was widely used by the convoy’s genuine grassroots supporters.
Accused In Coutts Murder Plot Allegedly Spent Months Training For Societal
New charges and unsealed documents reveal allegations of pipe bombs and training for the end of society among the men arrested for a murder plot in Coutts, Alberta.
The dark side of wellness: the overlap between spiritual thinking and far-r
Extreme right-wing views and the wellness community are not an obvious pairing, but ‘conspirituality’ is increasingly pervasive. How did it all become so toxic? By Eva Wiseman
Mainstreaming Resentment: YouTube Celebrities and the Rhetoric of White Sup
Items (SSRC) publishes accessible social science essays and collections, plus the monthly Items & Issues newsletter—linking research, policy, and public debate.
Campbell: The Freedom Convoy blockades were never about COVID-19
The recent blockades in Canada were not about COVID-19. They were about white supremacy and extremism. The blockaders are not patriots nor are they oppressed. The b…
‘This will emerge again’: Communities organize to tackle far-right rhetoric
The streets of downtown Ottawa are no longer blocked with trucks and peppered with hate symbols, but residents are not ready to rest while the extreme rhetoric of the so-called “freedom convoy” permeates Canadian politics and society.
Where Did Convoy Support Come From? Here Are the Maps | The Tyee
Our analysis of hacked donor data, from foreign interference to ‘blessings.’