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An anti-vaxxer sitting on the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee pitched European parliament members on “MEHA.”

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[-] oliver@infosec.pub 25 points 3 days ago

Just f*ck off and keep ruining the USA with MAHA, MAGA and the other daily B/S. Just let Europe take cere of its own businesses and leave us alone. Every day another piece of 💩 news is swashing over the ocean… 🤦‍♂️

[-] yakko@feddit.uk 61 points 3 days ago

I'm so fucking sick of making nouns adjective again

[-] markz@suppo.fi 53 points 3 days ago

Could they just please emigrate to america instead

[-] evidences@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago

We have enough stupid people in the US, I hear the surface of the sun is real nice this time of year.

[-] judgyweevil@feddit.it 9 points 3 days ago

Lots of sun

[-] markz@suppo.fi 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Does spacex offer a discount for test launches?

[-] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Let's send them all to Siberia.

[-] Kissaki@feddit.org 39 points 3 days ago

I don't get it. Why were they speaking to the European Parliament? In what role, and with what legitimacy?

[-] HowRu68@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

don't get it. Why were they speaking to the European Parliament? In what role, and with what legitimacy?

Good question.

The article doesn't say much at all. It's mostly US take. The writer, a freelance journalist, while he does work for the converstation afaik, published it on substack.. What I found was that Dr Robert Malone has been ptomoted to be the head of CDC ( USA) by Robert Kennedy & Maga. He's also been invited by some anti vaxx foundations in Europe on several occasions, and they attract a certain kind of rightwinged conspiracy politicians. How the members of European Parliament come into play, I don't know either. Maybe he was invited by some rightwinged faction, But I don't get it either.

[-] dumnezero@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

Buddies of European conservatives? The Fascist Lobby? McFascism franchise?

[-] Shipgirlboy@sh.itjust.works 36 points 3 days ago
[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago
[-] ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 9 points 3 days ago

Wenn wir ehrlich sind, ja eher nicht

[-] petrescatraian@libranet.de 26 points 3 days ago

> antivaxxers
> making Europe healthy - and make it healthy again

wtf am I reading?!?

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 3 days ago

by killing off all the unvaccinated people, leaving the ones that are immune healthy.

[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Natural selection at its best

[-] dumnezero@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

fascism hiding in a wellness costume.

[-] notsosure@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 days ago
[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Education does help. It's not a vaccine against stupidity, but it helps limit the spread of the disease.

[-] AngularViscosity@piefed.social 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'm gonna don my tinfoil hat and say this surge in alt medicine bullshit can't be a coincidence. I'm starting to think it's part of the plan to sicken and weaken the West along with the push to promote far right politics.

[-] Waldelfe@feddit.org 6 points 3 days ago

It's also a good way to get people into questioning authorities. "The government has been lying to you about vaccines all along." leads to "You can't trust the government at all." and ultimately "Vote for parties that will dismantle our current democratic system." The anti-science/anti-vax crowd has always had a giant overlap with the politically far right.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 3 days ago

russia/putin most likely was pushing the propaganda, remember the covid vaccine came out they were pushing the anti-vax narrative so much even thier own citizens refused to vaccinate. the anti-porn, age verification all traces back to russia. the one thing russia wants to do is weaken the west. this is how they do it, besides politically, just spread conspiracies.

[-] timeghost@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

It's biological terrorism through misinformation. Why drop a bio weapon when you can just mislead the ignorant into spreading measles?

[-] davetortoise@reddthat.com 8 points 3 days ago

Me when the entirely preventable measles outbreak

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 3 days ago

wait till you see diptheria, mumps, rubella again. and Chickenpox in large numbers again.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

When the right does it, it's not an attack on sovereignity. When anyone else, it's doing politics because "it's trendy in the US", and is obviously done due to George or Alex Soros (with "Soros" is pronounced like if it was a German surname, so George can be accused of being a former SS soldier), and must be shut down ASAP and with any means necessary.

Yes, I know, the right believes in, celebrates, and uphold unequality, which implies the whole "different rules applies" doctrine of theirs, no need to tap the sign.

[-] simplejack@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

When people think of Europe’s past, “healthy” is usually not one of the adjectives that gets thrown around.

[-] al4s@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago

What adjectives are you thinking of?

[-] simplejack@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago
[-] al4s@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

The Plague was not confined to Europe, and also didn't start there.

[-] waldo_was_here@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago
[-] SnowyCA@social.vivaldi.net 0 points 3 days ago
[-] dumnezero@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I don't get sad, I get angry.

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