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Sunday, June 5th, 2022

How American Influencers Built a World Wide Web of Vaccine Disinformation

Author:     KIERA BUTLER and NEHA WADEKAR
Source:     Mother Jones
Publication Date:     2 June 2022
 Link: How American Influencers Built a World Wide Web of Vaccine Disinformation
Stephan:   At least 319,000 people in the United States who volunteered to join the American anti-vaxxer death cult who ought to be alive are, instead, dead leaving at least a million three hundred thousand to grieve and mourn them. And that is just in the U.S. Based on the hard data I have come to think of the anti-vaxxer movement as a manifestation of pure social evil. An evil that not only killed its own cult members but, through its dispersal of false information, killed millions more around the world. A clear example of bad karma, and who knows what they will have to deal with in subsequent incarnations. It's not going to be pretty or pleasant.

Last year, Saphinah Kenyando was struggling to decide whether to get vaccinated against Covid. Kenyando, who is 38 and teaches chemistry and biology at a high school in Kenya, had read about horrifying side effects—blood clots, long-term disabilities—that sounded worse than the virus itself. She watched a (possibly doctored) clip from former US President Donald Trump saying that the effects included gruesome facial deformities that develop as a person ages. And she wondered whether the rumors circulating on Facebook, WhatsApp, and YouTube were true—that a person could take the jab and drop dead shortly thereafter.

In addition to her academic role, Kenyando also serves as the school chess coach, a duty she takes very seriously. She believes the game imparts valuable lessons to students: Make the right move, and you’ll reap the benefits. Make the wrong one, and you’ll be forced to deal with the fallout. “Chess is life,” she says. “Every decision we make in life is about the game of chess.” That’s how Kenyando framed her own decision on whether to get herself and her children […]

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1 Comment

  1. Lori on Sunday, June 5, 2022 at 9:39 am

    I don’t believe they will have to wait.
    Even more so – the instant karma in the here and now they themselves will definitely experience – along with what they cause for others. Won’t be too pleasant. Yet they are willfully ignorant to make the present connection.