Thread by @AlanRMacLeod

[Thread] While condemning vaccine skepticism at home, corporate media are pushing anti-vax conspiracies about the Chinese and Russian vaccines, trying to encourage fear and distrust of them worldwide.

My new report for @MintPressNews

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Reuters has been particularly guilty of this.

Read the headline and think what it implies. Then read the highlighted passage.

Then remember that most people don't read past the title.

The Brazillian man in this story committed suicide. It was completely unrelated to the vaccine.

So why have the @nytimes reported on it at all? And why did they choose this headline?

The only 2 reasons could be irresponsible clickbait or malign fear-mongering.

For over a year now, the New York Times has been pumping out scare stories about Sinovac/Sinopharm, despite the fact that relevant health experts have assessed them to be safe and effective.

“It’s striking how similar the techniques [are] that Fox News uses to frighten people about the U.S. vaccination campaign and those that The New York Times, Reuters and others use to scare people about Chinese vaccines,” - @JNaureckas of @FAIRmediawatch told me.

The US government is on a worldwide campaign to denigrate the Chinese and Russian vaccines.

A DHHS report proudly asserted that one of its biggest achievements of 2020 was convincing Brazil not to buy Russian vaccines.

Brazil has now lost 550k people.

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Even as they enforce IP laws that ensure the world can't get vaccinated, Western nations are terrified that Russia & China will score diplomatic wins by coming to the planet's rescue with their offerings.

Media are doing their best to stop this happening.
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What Reuters doesn't tell you in its headline is that over 677,000 Thai medical workers have taken Sinovac, meaning that more than 99.9% of them haven't developed COVID- a higher success rate than even US vaccines.

But that would spoil the message they're trying to insinuate.

The US is accelerating towards a new Cold War with Russia and China, and would rather people around the world died than got vaccinated with their products.

While many of us think of COVID as being in the past, the world is actually in the midst of a deadly third wave of infections/deaths.

Many countries have vaccinated less than 1% of their population- mostly because of rich countries hoarding them. The 🇨🇳or🇷🇺 vaccine is a lifeline

Media are also denigrating the new Cuban vaccine, calling it "homemade" as if it is some bathtub moonshine or something + casting aspersions about its safety.

Is their no end to their depravity?

Individuals and even news organizations in the US have been deplatformed, kicked off social media, and had their funding taken away for spreading vaccine skepticism.

But there are zero consequences for our biggest media outlets doing the same to vaccines our enemies produce.

Except, of course, medical consequences for us all. The longer the global south remains unshielded from COVID, the more deadly variants will mutate and spread worldwide, potentially causing millions more deaths.

What corporate media is doing is unbelievably irresponsible.

One last thing: vaccines work. So please get vaccinated. Look at and understand this chart to see how effective they've been in reducing COVID deaths already.

https://twitter.com/doctor_oxford/status/1418096984838266881