by Arjun Walia, The Pulse:
A successful U.S. military clandestine program to discredit China’s Sinovac COVID shot sheds light on just how much deception and propaganda influence our thoughts and behaviour.
The word “anti-vax” has become quite futile. During the pandemic and even prior to it, it was used to describe and ridicule those who spread “false claims” about vaccines and vaccine science.
Pointing out actual false claims can be useful, but unfortunately, the term is also used to “debunk” experts in the field who commonly bring up legitimate safety concerns that have surrounded vaccines for decades.
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Our sister brand, Collective Evolution, published 628 articles about vaccines and vaccine safety between 2009 and 2021. Almost every article was based on science, expert testimony, injury stories, and was done with journalistic integrity. Yet CE became known as one of the primary ‘anti-vax’ purveyors as a result of our work. We’re no stranger to the term being falsely applied.
More recently, vaccine safety concerns have been a growing issue among scientists and frontline health professionals, as explained at the World Vaccine Summit in 2019. This issue became even more predominant after the distribution of COVID inoculations.
Apart from concerning science (as outlined here, here and here), propaganda commonly comes into play, making it even harder to decipher what is and what isn’t.
U.S. Vaccine Propaganda
One example comes from a recent Reuters investigation which uncovered the fact that, during the pandemic, the U.S. military launched a clandestine program to discredit China’s Sinovac inoculation – specifically on the Filipino population.
At such a time, if COVID inoculations were indeed crucial and beneficial to the public, why would the U.S. purposefully put lives at risk?
Rhetorical question. Geopolitical wars, us vs them dynamics, and race to the bottom behavior are exactly why they’d do it. We cover this more in our Moloch essay if you’re interested.
During the operation, the U.S. military made phony social media and internet accounts meant to impersonate Filipinos. Social media posts destroyed the reputation of the first vaccine that would become available in the Philippines – China’s Sinovac inoculation.
The Reuters investigation identified at least 300 accounts on X that matched descriptions shared by former U.S. military officials familiar with the Philippines operation. Almost all were created in the summer of 2020 and centered on the slogan #Chinaangvirus.
In the words of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, who has pinned this story to the top of his twitter feed, “Holy F****.”
