NPR's Doppelgängers of Disinformation

Pt. 2

Promises, promises from NPR’s doppelgangers of Naomi Klein, whose cultural clones populate mainstream media, academics and publications of repute. Bethany Luse, It’s Been a Minute radio show host, promised to unveil how “anti-vax rhetoric has created a culture of vaccine hesitancy and how the resurgence of measles is a bigger indicator of what’s to come.” NPR promised to unravel the conspiracies that brought MAHA to power, but only managed to muddy their water.

Maria Godoy, NPR’s “science journalist”, was dismayed because in “Texas, despite the measles outbreak, they’re not having as much uptake as they would like in terms of vaccination.”

Brandy Zadrozny, CBS’s specialist in disinformation, wailed “public health officials told me that they were pivoting to a harm reduction communication strategy, because come get the vaccine, this thing is spreading, wasn’t working.”

Apparently, fear based messages no longer shock the sheep into compliance. Herd immunity would have to be achieved the old fashioned way “like COVID - stay home to stop the spread.” Of course, Covid shots were mandated for many, pushed like poisons on most. Now, even the sheep are aware that wolves in white coats are only Grandma’s sharp toothed Doppelganger.

Luse claims “so many parents are drawn to these anti-vaccine conspiracy theories out of a fear of their child being autistic. There’s some strong motivation and some vulnerability beneath that causing so many parents to be seriously afraid of their child being disabled.”

Autism can be caused by vaccinations, but pinning all anti-vaxx fears on it, is a red herring, straw donkey argument, when fetal and infant deaths, childhood autoimmune disorders, and increased infections are toxicaused by the inoculations children are subjected to even before toddling.

Godoy chirps in “Yeah, the link between vaccines and autism that does not exist and has been repeatedly debunked.” It doubtful she even knows that only MMR shots have been “studied” as a cause of autism, when patient data had to be juggled like flaming chainsaws to render null results. Even accepting those flawed conclusions, doesn’t absolve other vaccines from autism causation.

Zadrozny adroitly commiserates with fooled anti-vaxx parents.”I deeply understand the motivation of a parent for it to be unfathomable to believe that the things you did trying to protect your child could actually have hurt them.”

Not even sure what that means, but when injections kill or damage their child, parents rarely blame the jabs, because they’re gaslit by pediatricians and presstitutes into acquiescence. She inverts this to possibly becoming infected with whatever bug they could have been safe from, if they’d only followed the science.

“I’m not going to do something that’s unnatural, I just do things the good way, the natural way. And I’m very crunchy. Like, I gave birth in a pool. I do not take Tylenol. So, like, I very much get the impulse towards, like, the natural.” Except for inoculations, which she like, couldn’t tell you the ingredients of, much less their toxicological effects.

Narrating the mindset of these ignorant, fearful peasants, she blathers on that it’s a “disconnect of what we know in this age of enlightenment, where we know about medicine and the things that it does. I’m not going to think about that. I’m only going to look at these - the things that complement my worldview. And luckily, that is incredibly easy to do in this moment of social media. You can just tune in to Children’s Health Defense. You never have to let another view in.” This is classic projection of her tunnel vision around injections.

Godoy “talked to infectious disease modelers [that] if the trends we’ve been seeing, in terms of falling vaccination rates continue, we could be seeing measles outbreaks not that far out into the future. But yeah, the more people buy into false messaging, the more vulnerable we all become. The more we could see the days, again, where you have dozens, hundreds of deaths.”

Zadrozny bemoaned “how short our memory is, like, in the late ‘80s, early ‘90s, there was a measles outbreak. It killed children. The federal government said, whoa, we have to make sure that we provide free vaccines to every child. And so they created this federal program called the Vaccines for Children Program. It’s wildly successful. Parents who don’t have access to vaccinations, because they have to work, live in rural areas, experiencing homelessness are supported by this federal program through local and state health departments.”

RFK jr’s reshuffle of HHS, “gutted $11.4 billion [from the bloated agency] with major cuts to this program. A judge just granted an emergency stay to that, but we have to focus on the people who want vaccines because if we have all of them, we could probably reach that 95% herd immunity.” Influencing people to want vaccines was another federally funded industry, but the “NIH has cut grants to people who are researching what is preventing vaccine uptake and how do we boost it -vaccine hesitancy, vaccine access, vaccine acceptance.”

“I call this the that’s-what-you-get phase of this tale of misinformation reporting. Like, for so long, we sounded the alarm and said these lies are really spreading super fast. COVID supercharged all that. And now, Kennedy’s in charge. If he does what he said he was going to do, which is to dismantle CDC and NIH and only study the chronic conditions that he has said for a decade, are caused by vaccines, he’s going to find the answer that he wanted. He’s now installed an anti-vaccine researcher to look over the safety data on vaccines.”

We are still eagerly waiting, from when his VP running mate, Nicole Shanahan promised to use AI to speed up data determination. Haven’t heard from her in a blue moon.

Luse wrapped the show, signing off with her signature “I learned so much in this conversation.” All of it misinformation, ladled out by Disinformation Dopplegangers.