I've been warning about the likelihood of antivaxxers arming themselves and becoming violent for years. Now it appears to be on the verge of happening, with "Mamalitia." 1/https://twitter.com/RMCarpiano/status/1387960353682649089 …
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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/ …Show 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/ …Show 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/ …Show 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/Show 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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Oh man, somehow it's just sinking in that you have a blog. I can only assume it'll contain the same garam masala of rationalism and snark we've all come to know and love on anti-anti-vax Twitter.
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