Thread by @MollyMcKew

Twitter is a boon to antivaxxer conspiracies & grifters: a thread

I was looking for a story about the decline in regular childhood vaccinations during Covid, b/c parents are afraid to take kids to dr when they’re not sick.

Here are twitter search top hits on “vaccines kids” /1

This “sports” guy comes up first and twice w/ “covid isn’t a big deal, not vaccinating is my right as an ****** who doesn’t care about other people” messages

Gross /1

Then there’s a “study” about “how whooping cough vaccine makes you get whooping cough”

Nope. /3

Two hits on “actually Bill Gates is an Illuminati monster” — “vaccines mean kids starve” I a nice spin! 🙄

BTW Bill Gates obsessing about vaccines has probably saved **millions** of lives of the poorest people in the world.

But wait — there’s more! /4

“Vaccines are PSYOP!”

No. No they are not.

Plus this other guy who turns up everywhere and what does this even mean really?? /5

“My happy healthy vegan kids don’t need vaccines” types.

News: we all need vaccines. /6

Angry antivaxxers + “vaccines are always an elite conspiracy”

Actually the elite conspiracy would be having the ability to save millions of lives and not providing vaccines and letting people die of measles and rubella. /7

The only respite in the top results is this blessed comment on musicals and this guy who is saying the same things as the conspiracists — to then say they are wrong. Boy he beat the algo w that sleight of hand! /8

And yes, when you search anything w “vaccines” this very clinical box will appear first and everyone will scroll past it. But at least it is there. Yes. 🎉

But I mean ...

This is grim

/9

Just... ugh.

If you could save people’s lives, why wouldn’t you? /10

This is only the top hits.

There is much worse.

It’s overt subversion. /11