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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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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