The receipts begin. Five years ago, I first started becoming concerned about the increasingly violent rhetoric and imagery used by the antivaccine movement. 2/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2015/12/03/the-violent-rhetoric-of-the-antivaccine-movement/ …
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With the release of
@DrWakefield and@delbigtree's antivaccine propaganda movie disguised as a documentary@vaxxedthemovie in 2016, the violent rhetoric of the antivaccine movement intensified. 3/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2016/07/19/the-violent-rhetoric-of-the-antivaccine-movement-vaxxed-edition/ …1 reply 7 retweets 38 likesShow this thread -
When called out on it, antivaxxers like
@delbigtree try to maintain plausible deniability...badly. 4/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2016/07/20/the-violent-rhetoric-of-the-antivaccine-movement-i-didnt-really-mean-it-edition/ …2 replies 6 retweets 36 likesShow this thread -
Of course, long before I first noticed the truly disturbing violent rhetoric of the antivaccine movement, but the many years of likening school vaccine mandates to the Holocaust had laid the groundwork. 5/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2017/05/17/the-violent-rhetoric-of-the-antivaccine-movement-vaccine-holocaust-and-potential-impending-attacks-on-journalists/ …
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Less than a year before the pandemic hit, antivaxxers were already ramping up their violent rhetoric even more. 6/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/05/03/violent-rhetoric-antivaccine-intensifies/ …
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Then in the summer of 2019, the violent rhetoric got closer to actual violence when an antivaxxer shoved
@DrPanMD on the streets of Sacramento. 7/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/08/22/austin-bennett-richard-pan/ …1 reply 7 retweets 37 likesShow this thread -
It's not at all surprising now that the
#COVID19 pandemic and the mass campaign to persuade people to accept#COVIDVaccine have taken the preexisting spark of radicalism in the antivaccine movement and started to fan it into a flame. 8/1 reply 6 retweets 37 likesShow this thread -
I've been warning about the potential for violence by antivaxxers for more than 5 years now. Few listened then. Some even pooh-poohed my warnings, downplayed them. I hope people will listen now. 9/9
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Forgot to mention. The statement by the leader of "Mamalitia" that ""public health is public enemy #1" is very consistent with what I've been saying about antivaxxers all along. It's not just vaccines. Antivaxxers oppose ALL public health measures. 10/10https://respectfulinsolence.com/2020/12/02/antivaxxers-anti-public-health/ …
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Indeed, then there's the case of antivax-turned-wider- extremist activist Leigh Dundas who doxxed the address of the OC, CA Public Health Officer & then in 1/2021 was speaking in DC riling up crowds. https://tonyortega.org/2021/01/12/scientologys-anti-mask-star-leigh-dundas-may-have-overdone-it-at-capitol-riot/ …https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-09/orange-county-public-health-officer-resigns-amid-controversy-over-face-coverings …
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH Retweeted Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
Also, we shouldn't forget this event too--which highlights the connections between anti-vax/sci fringe and militia groups (Rhode). Stone an impt connection given his medical freedom pushes & Alex Jones InfoWars appearances.https://twitter.com/RMCarpiano/status/1348247338557444099?s=20 …
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