Demented and twisted anti-vaxxers... It Only Took a Few Minutes for Anti-Vaxxers to Start Spreading Lisa Marie Presley Conspiracy Theories Almost immediately, anti-vaxxers baselessly suggested the late singer’s death was caused by the COVID-19 vaccine. https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgpzg4/lisa-marie-presley-qanon-anti-vaxxers
Let's fact check the latest bullshiat coming out of the mouth of Robert Malone. Young and healthy people get benefits from COVID-19 vaccines, despite claims to contrary Younger people face less of a health threat from COVID-19, but vaccines reduce their chances of developing serious disease from the virus. https://www.poynter.org/fact-checki...covid-19-vaccines-despite-claims-to-contrary/ As a highly transmissible coronavirus variant begins to dominate new infections in the U.S., social media users are sharing a video clip from vaccine scientist-turned-anti-vaccine activist Dr. Robert Malone. In a TikTok clip shared Jan. 3 on Instagram, Malone falsely called COVID-19 vaccines “experimental genetic therapy” and said they “provide zero benefit relative to risk for the young and healthy.” He didn’t define young. The Instagram post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram.) The COVID-19 vaccines are not gene therapy; they do not alter DNA. COVID-19 generally poses more of a health threat as people age, but experts say younger people still share in vaccination’s benefits, including a reduced chance of serious illness if they contract the virus. As for the risk of vaccination, myocarditis, a rare heart muscle inflammation, occurs far more often among young people who get COVID-19. Studies back up the experts on both points. Who is Malone? We’ve written about Malone before. He has promoted several false and misleading claims about the COVID-19 vaccines and the pandemic. In January 2022, Malone was banned from Twitter for violating its COVID-19 misinformation policies; YouTube removed videos of a controversial interview he did with podcast host Joe Rogan. Malone’s Twitter account was restored in December. Malone didn’t reply to our requests for information for this fact-check. Serious COVID-19 less common among young It’s long been known that serious illness and death from COVID-19 is much less common among young people, even though the largest number of cases is among 18- to 29-year-olds. The latest data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention back that up. For example, as of Dec. 28, the COVID-19 hospitalization risk among people ages 85 and older was 15 times higher than among people ages 18 to 29; the COVID-19 death rate was 350 times higher for the older cohort. Because the risk of severe COVID-19 is low for the young and healthy, “there are people who feel like the benefit isn’t worth it,” said Dr. Robert Wachter, professor and chair of the University of California, San Francisco’s Department of Medicine. But Wachter said there is evidence that vaccines for young people lower the risk of a severe case, the probability of long COVID and the probability of transmitting the virus to others. Clear benefits of vaccination Dr. Matthew Laurens, a pediatric infectious disease specialist and researcher at the University of Maryland’s Center for Vaccine Development, said vaccination protection against serious COVID-19 complications, including hospitalization and death, apply to both healthy people and those with underlying illnesses. A study published in May in the New England Journal of Medicine found that vaccination reduced the risk of omicron variant-associated hospitalization by two-thirds among children ages 5 to 11 years. The same month, a study published in the journal Nature Medicine found that vaccination reduced the probability of long COVID — long-term effects from infection — by 15%. Other benefits of vaccination to younger people, said Dr. Davidson Hamer, interim director of the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Research and Policy at Boston University, include preventing lost time from work or school because of infection and preventing infection spread to other people. Ten children were being treated for COVID-19 at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia on Jan. 9 when we called Dr. Paul Offit, director of the hospital’s Vaccine Education Center. Malone “should come to a children’s hospital and see children suffering,” Offit said, citing the importance of COVID-19 vaccination. “When you see children suffering and it’s preventable, you prevent it,” he said. Low risks of vaccination Vaccine critics sometimes cite myocarditis as a COVID-19 vaccination risk, particularly among younger people. But the risk is often overstated. Hamer said there is “very low risk” among young people of myocarditis and the condition stemming from vaccination tends to be mild to moderate, and temporary. Moreover, he said, cardiac complications “are more common after the disease itself as opposed to vaccination.” Laurens pointed to a CDC study that found that from March 2020 to January 2021, patients ages 16 to 39 with COVID-19 had seven times the risk for myocarditis compared with patients who did not have COVID-19. The findings underscored the importance of vaccination “to reduce the public health impact of COVID-19 and its associated complications,” the study said. News stories in January reported that a new variant, XBB.1.5, was quickly becoming the dominant strain in parts of the United States. The World Health Organization described the strain as the omicron variant’s most transmissible descendant. The strain has been causing 25% of COVID-19 cases in the U.S., up from 10% in December, Johns Hopkins University said Jan. 9. Our ruling Malone, an anti-vaccine activist, said COVID-19 vaccines “provide zero benefit relative to risk for the young and healthy.” Although younger people face less of a health threat from COVID-19, vaccines reduce their chances of developing serious disease from the virus. As for risk, heart inflammation from the vaccines is rare among young people, and occurs more commonly among young people infected by COVID-19. We rate the statement False.
As mentioned many times, the behavior of anti-vaxxers is demented and sick... especially their jumping on every celebrity death within minutes claiming the death was caused by the Covid vaccine. Human behavior cannot get much more twisted than this. The antivaxers' ghoulish exploitation of dead celebrities https://www.alternet.org/antivaxers-ghoulish-exploitation-celebrities/ Benjamin Franklin liked to say the only certainties are death and taxes. We can now add a third certainty: Antivaxers alleging that the deceased are killed by the covid vaccine. You might wonder how they know the vaccine status of all these strangers. They don’t! But 80 percent of Americans are at least partially vaccinated. It’s a good bet that anyone who dies will from now on have been vaccinated. Sadly, while the shot greatly reduces the odds of dying by covid, it doesn’t make you immortal. That means endless grist for the antivax rumor mill. In the scramble for antivax clout, it’s critical to hurl the accusation as quickly as possible, before inconvenient facts come to light. The cause of 54-year-old singer Lisa Marie Presley’s fatal cardiac arrest is still unknown and the antivaxers are taking full advantage of the uncertainty. It’s a race against time. If antivaxers had hesitated before blaming the vaccine for high-profile deaths, they might have learned that beloved comedian Bob Saget shattered his skull in a hotel room, sports journalist Grant Wahl succumbed to an aneurysm and guitar legend Jeff Beck died of bacterial meningitis Staying alive won’t save you from the antivax ghouls either. Just ask singers Celine Dionne and Justin Bieber. If you think dying at a ripe old age will get you off the hook, think again. Supplement peddler Peter McCullough alleged that Queen Elizabeth II died of the vaccine, as opposed to being 96. Anti-vaxers even circulated a fabricated quote to make it look like actress Betty White had just gotten her booster before she passed peacefully in her sleep at nearly 100 years of age. Some antivaxers don’t even wait for the victim to die. Substacker Steve Kirsch speculated the vaccine had rendered Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin braindead on the field when in fact he was recovering in hospital. Someone’s braindead in this scenario, but not the 24-year-old Hamlin, who was released from the hospital last week. The cause of his cardiac arrest has not been released, but given that the player collapsed shortly after taking a blow to the chest on national television, the most likely culprit is a rare condition called commotio cordis. Scientists have known since the 1930s that an ill-timed blow can stop a healthy heart by disrupting its rhythm. They have a list! The flurry of rumors about Hamlin’s cardiac arrest are part of a larger pattern of antivaxers falsely implying that vaccines have caused a sudden surge in sudden deaths among athletes Tucker Carlson said that, “since the vax campaign began, there have been more than 1,500 total cardiac arrests in [European sports leagues] and two-thirds of those were fatal.” Carlson was riffing on a letter to the editor by none other than Peter McCullough who was riffing on a list he saw on the antivax website, “GoodSciencing.com.” The list purports to be a compendium of “vaccine-related” illnesses and deaths since the vaccines came out. Many of these deaths are neither cardiac, sudden, nor plausibly vaccine-related. These include the deaths of 81-year-old soccer star Pele, who died of colon cancer; a 69-year-old who apparently fell off a cliff; a snowboarder who mysteriously crashed through a window; an accidental drug overdose; a car crash, some drownings, a kidney infection; and sepsis from Strep A. The list includes all ages, and a grab bag of sudden and not-so-sudden deaths, lovingly cherry-picked from all over the world. Rather than limiting themselves to competitive athletes, the authors appear to have included almost anyone with a connection to physical fitness, including a gym owner who keeled over in his parking lot; an NFL official; some referees in their 70s; assorted weekend warriors; and a nameless little girl who died in dance class. The anonymous authors swear they have more stories they didn’t include because they weren’t confident of the connection to the vaccine. Based on what they put in, I shudder to think what they left out. Fear and deceit The GoodSciencing folks attempt to show an increase in something or other by comparing their giant pile of random clippings to a study that only looked at competitive US athletes under the age of 25 who were perfectly healthy before they died suddenly and whose cases found their way into a special registry. By comparing a list with no standards to a list with very strict standards, the GoodSciencing crew observe that their pile is larger and declare victory. This is not good sciencing. Sadly, young athletes have always been at increased risk of sudden cardiac death. Scientists have known for decades that a small percentage of apparently healthy young people have heart conditions that are silent until they push their bodies to the limit. The ignorance and malice of the antivaxers is so profound that they think nothing of exploiting these tragic deaths to advance their narrative. Antivaxers are resorting to increasingly desperate and manipulative rhetoric because they’re losing. Now that most people have been vaccinated, they’re gloating that we’re all going to die horribly because we didn’t listen. It is estimated that the covid vaccines have saved over 3 million lives in the US and over 14 million lives worldwide. The vaccines have also prevented countless illnesses and hospitalizations and saved global health care systems trillions of dollars. Antivaxers ghoulishly exploit the deaths of celebrities, because they have no compelling data. Their only weapons are fear and deceit.
As noted earlier, the demented anti-vaxxers are regularly creating fabricated nonsense and pushing it on social media. This is not limited to fabricated charts and study & media headlines -- but also includes fabricated social media posts attributed to well-known figures. This is the latest example. Claim: Bill Gates tweeted that “vaccines in our food supply solves the problem of vaccine hesitancy.” Bill Gates didn’t tweet about adding vaccines to food to solve vaccine hesitancy https://www.politifact.com/factchec...ates-didnt-tweet-about-adding-vaccines-to-fo/ Microsoft Corp. co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates didn’t post a tweet in support of adding vaccines to the food supply to solve vaccine hesitancy. This fake tweet appears to come from a website called NewsPunch, which featured the image in a false story about Gates supposedly trying to force mRNA vaccines on people by pumping them into the food supply. The story centers around comments Gates made in 2018 — years before the COVID-19 pandemic and mRNA vaccines — about vaccinating livestock. But he didn’t say anything about using the food supply to force vaccinations on people, as this suggests. Microsoft Corp. co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates is a well-known proponent of vaccine research and development. But did he once tweet that vaccines should be added to the food supply? "Vaccines in our food supply solves the problem of vaccine hesitancy," reads what looks like a screenshot of a tweet attributed to Gates and shared on Facebook. People shared the image alongside a photo of comedian and actor Bill Cosby, and drew a nefarious parallel between Gates’ alleged action and date rape. Other versions displayed the tweet with a photo of Gates smiling next to a batch of test tubes. But Gates never wrote this. The tweet was fabricated. The posts were flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram. We couldn't find the tweet on Gates’ Twitter feed or on Polititweet, a website that maintains a database of deleted tweets by public figures. PolitiFact reached out to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation but didn’t hear back. The screenshot appears to come from a Jan. 10 story by NewsPunch, a website known for spreading misinformation, about Gates supposedly trying to force mRNA vaccines on people by pumping them into the food supply. The story featured a photo illustration that included an image of the fabricated tweet. But the story revolves around comments Gates made in 2018 — before the COVID-19 pandemic — about vaccinating livestock. In the video, Gates spoke about a partnership between his foundation and a United Kingdom agency then known as the Department for International Development, which is now part of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. "The Gates Foundation has partnered with DFID on a great number of things and, among those, are work we do together on livestock," Gates said in the clip. "Helping animals survive either by having vaccines or better genetics, helping them be more productive. It’s making a big difference." Gates didn’t say anything about forcing vaccines on people by using the food supply. The tactic also wouldn't work. The mRNA COVID-19 vaccines aren’t approved for animals and, even if they were, eating food products from a vaccinated animal wouldn’t transfer the vaccine to people. Our ruling Social media posts claim Bill Gates tweeted that "vaccines in our food supply solves the problem of vaccine hesitancy." He didn’t. The tweet was fabricated and came from a photo illustration that NewsPunch used in a story about comments Gates made in 2018. In that talk, he said nothing about using food to force vaccinations on people. We rate this claim Pants on Fire!
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The latest trend from demented anti-vaxxers is to appear on social media with "tremors" and claim it was from the vaccine. It has reached the pointed of ridiculousness with fake tremor videos that it has become a meme. So anti-vaxxers remember to put up your tremor video so you can be widely mocked by the entire internet. Remember all of those previous posts of yours claiming that you will never get vaccinated are suddenly rendered meaningless when you show up in a video with tremors which you claim are from your vaccination. ‘Thanks Pfizer’: False Covid vaccine tremor claims spread on social media People in the US have been sharing videos on social media showing them seemingly trembling and shaking https://www.standard.co.uk/news/wor...ine-tremor-social-media-twitter-b1054985.html ‘Thanks, Pfizer’ becomes a meme as anti-vaxxer tries to blame vaccine for spasms https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle...ter-has-other-ideas/ar-AA16AWOD?ocid=msedgntp Post-Vaccine Tremor Fakers Are Being Publicly, Delightfully Trolled The videos have become vessels of nostalgia for 2000s movies, dated pop culture moments, and pretty much anything you’ve ever seen shake. https://jezebel.com/post-vaccine-tremor-fakers-are-being-publicly-delightf-1850018806
Even the MSM is turning on the mass murdering pro-vaxxers. Go ahead, GRWB - rant out more lies. Everybody knows you're wrong now. https://www.zerohedge.com/political...s-biden-admin-over-deceptive-booster-campaign WSJ Shreds Vaccine Makers, Biden Admin Over "Deceptive" Booster Campaign Tyler Durden's Photo BY TYLER DURDEN SUNDAY, JAN 22, 2023 - 01:11 PM Wall Street Journal editorial board member Allysia Finley has taken a flamethrower to vaccine makers over their "deceptive" campaign for bivalent Covid boosters, and slams several federal agencies for taking "the unprecedented step of ordering vaccine makers to produce them and recommending them without data supporting their safety or efficacy." You might have heard a radio advertisement warning that if you’ve had Covid, you could get it again and experience even worse symptoms. The message, sponsored by the Health and Human Services Department, claims that updated bivalent vaccines will improve your protection. This is deceptive advertising. But the public-health establishment’s praise for the bivalent shots shouldn’t come as a surprise. -WSJ The narrative behind the campaign was simple; mRNA Covid shots could simply be 'tweaked' to to target new variants - in this case, the jabs were claimed to confer protection against BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron variants, along with the original Wuhan strain. To call this wishful thinking would be extremely generous. As Finley writes, three scientific problems have arisen. The virus is mutating much faster than vaccines can be updated. Vaccines have 'hard wired' our immune systems to respond to the original Wuhan strain, "so we churn out fewer antibodies that neutralize variants targeted by updated vaccines." Antibody protection wanes after just a few months. Finley has brought receipts too... Two studies in the New England Journal of Medicine this month showed that bivalent boosters increase neutralizing antibodies against the BA.4 and BA.5 variants, but not significantly more than the original boosters. In one study, antibody levels after the bivalent boosters were 11 times as high against the Wuhan variant as BA.5. The authors posit that immune imprinting “may pose a greater challenge than is currently appreciated for inducing robust immunity against SARS-CoV-2 variants.” This isn’t unique to Covid or mRNA vaccines, though boosters may amplify the effect. Our first exposure as children to the flu—whether by infection or vaccination—affects our future response to different strains. -WSJ
Demented anti-vaxxers continue to create complete fabricated studies and headlines on social media. A huge majority of the bullshiat being pushed by these clowns currently is photoshopped. Let's take a look at one more recent example. Of course, idiots continually re-post this nonsense on ET claiming it is true. Fact check: No, Ireland doesn't list 'sudden death' as COVID-19 vaccine side effect The claim: Poster from Ireland health authority shows 'sudden death' as side effect of COVID-19 vaccine https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...s-supposed-covid-19-side-effects/11092463002/ A Jan. 12 Instagram post (direct link, archived link) claims to show a COVID-19 information poster made by Irish health authorities. The purported poster is addressed to "vaccine recipients" and lists "rare" side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine, including headaches, menstrual irregularities, Bell’s palsy, blood clots, heart attacks, strokes and sudden death. The post was liked more than 80 times within a week. Another version of the claim was retweeted more than 500 times on Twitter. Our rating: Altered The image is not authentic. Ireland’s Health Service Executive, part of the country’s Department of Health, said the poster was not made by the government agency, nor was the information on the poster authorized by it. Ireland health authority confirms poster is altered The altered image includes fabricated versions of both the country’s official COVID-19 public health advice logo in the top right corner as well as its general logo in the bottom right. But it's not legitimate. “This is not a HSE poster, and the information included on the poster was not authorised or published by the HSE,” the Health Service Executive said in an emailed statement. While the authentic COVID-19 public health advice logo says, “Coronavirus 2019 Public Health Advice,” the fake version in the post says “ALERT.” And the authentic government logo reads, “Government of Ireland,” but the fake iteration reads, “People of Ireland.” Fact check: No, Australian High Court hasn't banned COVID-19 vaccines for children The agency lists headaches as a common side effect of all COVID-19 vaccines used in Ireland. Bell’s palsy, a disorder that affects the movement of muscles in the face, is listed as a rare side effect, affecting up to one in 1,000 people, for the Moderna and Janssen vaccines. Blood clots are a rare side effect, affecting up to one in 1,000 people for the Janssen vaccine and up to one in 10,000 people for the AztraZeneca vaccine, according to the agency's web page on COVID-19 vaccine side effects. The Health Service Executive's web page does not report menstrual irregularities, heart attacks, strokes or sudden death as side effects of any COVID-19 vaccine used in Ireland. The Instagram post also claims the CDC "retracted their recommendation" to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. But that's nonsense. The CDC recommends all people stay up to date with their COVID-19 vaccinations in accordance with the agency's guidance for different age groups, according to its vaccine information page. A person is up to date with the COVID-19 vaccine, the page says, when they have "completed a COVID-19 vaccine primary series and received the most recent booster dose recommended for you by CDC." USA TODAY reached out to the Instagram user who shared the claim for comment. The Twitter user could not be reached. Reuters debunked the claim as well. Our fact-check sources: CDC, Jan. 9, Stay Up to Date with COVID-19 Vaccines Including Boosters Ireland’s Health Service Executive, Jan. 17, Email interview with USA TODAY Government of Ireland, accessed Jan. 20, Logo Guidelines Wexford Local Development, accessed Jan. 20, Government of Ireland Logo Penn Medicine, accessed Jan. 20, What is Bell's Palsy? Ireland’s Health Service Executive, accessed Jan. 20, Side effects and safety of COVID-19 vaccines Reuters, Jan. 13, Fact Check-Fabricated Health Service Ireland poster resurfaces listing ‘sudden death’ as COVID-19 vaccine side effect