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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Replying to @gorskon
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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This is consistent with connections between antivaxxers and the Nation of Islam, which had become basically a wholly owned subsidiary of Scientology, going back at least to 2015.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2015/06/18/cranks-of-a-feather-the-nation-of-islam-teams-with-antivaccine-activists-to-oppose-sb-277/ …
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And we're not talking the "fringe" of the antivaccine fringe either. We're talking
@RobertKennedyJr, a highly influential antivaccine "superstar."https://respectfulinsolence.com/2015/06/22/cranks-of-a-feather-part-2-robert-f-kennedy-jr-cozies-up-the-nation-of-islam-over-sb-277/ …1 reply 4 retweets 15 likes -
Indeed, RFK Jr. has teamed up with the Nation of Islam to organize a protest outside the
@CDCgov in Atlanta over the "CDC whistleblower" conspiracy at the heart of@vaxxedthemovie.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2015/10/28/cranks-of-a-feather-part-3/ …4 replies 3 retweets 8 likes
And...the year before the pandemic, antivaxxers and Scientology had teamed up to counter #SB276, @DrPanMD's bill to take care of weaknesses in #SB277, the law that eliminated personal belief exemptions to California's school vaccine mandate.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/08/13/church-of-scientology-helping-antivaxers-block-sb-276/ …
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Replying to @gorskon @RMCarpiano and
I remember that one...but Scientology was the free spot on the anti-vaccine bingo board
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Replying to @AGoldsmithEsq @gorskon and
For those of us who don’t know what a bingo board is, what is a “free spot”?
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