QANON, Reignite Democracy & Vaccination Refusers
People who follow these pervaders of fruitcake misinformation, conspiracy theories, blatant lies and non-scientific nonsense have certainly come out in force since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
There have always been those who shrilly express their non-scientific views regarding the efficacy of vaccines when the evidence is quite clear: people do not generally die from vaccines; and, vaccines have long saved the population from the devastating effects of polio, whooping cough, measles, chicken-pox, mumps, diphtheria, shingles and influenza.
Yes, there are some very rare side effects of some vaccines that lead to nasty outcomes, but these are very rare and the odds of getting them is far, far less than the odds of getting the disease and suffering severe outcomes. And in a pandemic, this is even more necessary to be vaccinated.
Parliamentarian, Craig Kelly and celebrity cook, Pete Evans are but two of these pervaders of misinformation and fortunately, FaceBook has chosen to remove their misinformation and lies.
Here are some of the latest reports regarding these pervaders of doom:
News Corp named the top 10 misinformation superspreaders about Covid vaccines on Facebook in Australia;
Disinformation is everywhere online, some of it is hard to even detect, here’s the expert guide to recognising the gateways to QAnon and conspiracy land.