We allowed this to happen. We tolerated the misinformation. We would not confront the fake experts with false resumes. We sat on our hands as night after night Fox News spewed false information abouut COVID and vaccination. We confused deadly Russian propaganda with free speech. We didn’t recognize the attack. We didn’t see it as an act of war. We thought it would just go away.
We were wrong. Now, 1.2M Americans are dead, 300,000 to 400,000 needlessly due to refusal to be vaccinated. Trust in government, public health and science has been eroded. Life saving vaccines are going to waste. Vaccine makers are giving up. Only 4% of Americans have been vaccinated against the current strain of SARS COV2. Flu immunization rates are declining. Childhood immunization rates are dropping.
What will be the consequence of this? Our public health system has been broken. CDC has lost its ability to effect public health policy. Contagion cannot be far behind. Its only a matter of time. Maybe next week or next month or next year, sooner or later waves of death and disease will sweep across the country crippling business and the economy. Contagion will weaken the country and make us vulnerable. We wont be able to defend ourselves or our allies.
That is the inevitable consequence of failing to squelch the antivax movement. This is how Russia defeated the US.
Really?
https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/clarity-for-friends-confusion-for-foes-russian-vaccine-propaganda-in-ukraine-and-serbia/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/russian-misinformation-seeks-to-confound-not-convince/
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-china-covid-disinformation-campaigns/31590996.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/05/us/politics/covid-vaccines-russian-disinformation.html
Pathetic and delusional.