Anti-vaxxer
 Anti-vaxxer  (enemy image)   | |
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| Interest of | • InfraGard • Matthew Remski |
| An important enemy image during COVID | |
The "Anti-vaxxer" is an enemy image created by big pharma.[When?][citation needed]
Contents
2021 definition
As of July 2021 Miriam Webster defined "anti-vaxxer" as "a person who opposes vaccination or laws that mandate vaccination".
On COVID-19
On the question of COVID-19 Vaccines, Jane Orient, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (the majority of whom had not received two such injections), stated:
“It is wrong to call a person who declines a shot an "anti-vaxxer". Virtually no physicians are "anti-antibiotics" or "anti-surgery", whereas all are opposed to treatments that they think are unnecessary, more likely to harm than to benefit an individual patient, or inadequately tested.”
Jane Orient (July 2021) [1]
Great Britain
In September 2021, the BBC reported that fake NHS letters were being circulated at schools by "anti vaxxers".[2]
Wikipedia
Redirects to Vaccine hesitancy.
Examples
| Page name | Description |
|---|---|
| "Disinformation Dozen" | "anti vaxxer conspiracy theorists" according to the Center for Countering Digital Hate |
| Rémy Daillet | French "anti-vaxxer terrorist" |
| Eleanor McBean | |
| Mario N | Man who shot dead a cashier at a petrol station after a drunken argument over face masks in September 2021. Used evilly in corporate media propaganda: "All anti-vaxxers are terrorists!" |
Related Quotations
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albert Bourla | “Frederick Kempe: There was some fake news during this period of time about the vaccines, you know, all sorts of conspiracy theories. How did you deal with that and how did you navigate that and where do you feel the primary source of this sort of fake news was? How damaging was this to us?
Albert Bourla: I’m afraid it [caused] quite a lot of damage and particularly with us, we were targeted by a lot of, let’s say, dark organizations that you don’t really know [who owns them]. You suspect that there are some countries behind. We were getting a lot of briefings from CIA, from FBI, about cyberattacks that may happen to us, but also about the spread of misinformation. You know, there are two groups of people: There are the people that they are vaccinated. There are people that are skeptical about the vaccination, and both of them are afraid. Those that are getting the vaccine, they are afraid of the disease, and they believe that because people are not getting vaccinated, they are increasing the risk to them. They are increasing the exposure. So they are mad with them that they don’t get the vaccine. Those that don’t get the vaccine, they’re afraid of the vaccine and they are mad with the people that are pressing them to get it. Those I understand. They are very good people. They are decent people. But they had a fear, and I understand it, and they don’t want to take chances. But there is a very small part of professionals [who] circulate, on purpose, misinformation so that they will mislead those that they have concerns [with the vaccine]. Those people are criminals. They’re not bad people. They are criminals because they literally cost millions of lives.” | Frederick Kempe Albert Bourla | 9 November 2021 |
| Arne Duncan | “Have you noticed how strikingly similar both the mindsets and actions are between the suicide bombers at Kabul’s airport, and the anti-mask and anti-vax people here? They both blow themselves up, inflict harm on those around them, and are convinced they are fighting for freedom.” | Arne Duncan | 29 August 2021 |
| Karoline Edtstadler | “If the penalty is not paid, exactly what usually happens if you do not pay a penalty will happen: "Then at some point the executor will stand at the door and collect the fine. In the end, the cuckoo comes when they can't pay it – but that would really be the escalation stage," says Edtstadler. In addition to the hefty fines, vaccine refusers also risk their jobs. According to the minister, a termination for the unvaccinated is "probably possible". "With the introduction of compulsory vaccination, it is actually illegal to live in Austria and not to be vaccinated. And other consequences can also arise from this.” | Karoline Edtstadler | 11 December 2021 |
| Hilary Jones | “Those people who haven’t been vaccinated, we’d really love you to think again and be vaccinated because 90% of people in hospital are unvaccinated right now with Covid.” | Hilary Jones | 6 December 2021 |
| Danielle Smith | “(unvaccinated people) have been the most discriminated against group that I’ve ever witnessed in my lifetime.... I don’t think I’ve ever experienced a situation in my lifetime where a person was fired from their job, or not allowed to watch their kids play hockey, or are not allowed to go visit a loved one in long-term care or hospital, or not allowed to go get on a plane to either go across the country to see family or even travel across the border.” | Danielle Smith | 11 October 2022 |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:British extremists are importing tactics from the US hard right. Their target? Family drag shows | Article | 22 June 2023 | Tim Squirrell | The Institute for Strategic Dialogue has identified a new terror threat in this article published by Tim Squirrell, its head of communications, in the Guardian. |
| Document:I get abuse and threats online - why can't it be stopped? | Article | 18 October 2021 | Marianna Spring | The Disinformation Specialist at the BBC gets criticism online for her "fact checking". Internet censorship is the answer. |
Official examples
| Name |
|---|
| Johann Biacsics |
| John Magufuli |
| Captain Joe Manning |
| Michigan for Vaccine Choice |
| Nicki Minaj |
| Gemma O'Doherty |
| Isabel Oakeshott |
| Ohio Advocates for Medical Freedom |
| Danielle Smith |
