Pentagon pushed secret anti-vax campaign against China to sell more US vaccines

[Secure Da Bag]

MSN

“It should have been in our interest to get as much vaccine in people’s arms as possible,” said Greg Treverton, former chairman of the U.S. National Intelligence Council, which coordinates the analysis and strategy of Washington’s many spy agencies. What the Pentagon did, Treverton said, “crosses a line.”

'We were desperate'​

Together, the phony accounts used by the military had tens of thousands of followers during the program. Reuters could not determine how widely the anti-vax material and other Pentagon-planted disinformation was viewed, or to what extent the posts may have caused COVID deaths by dissuading people from getting vaccinated.

In the wake of the U.S. propaganda efforts, however, then-Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte had grown so dismayed by how few Filipinos were willing to be inoculated that he threatened to arrest people who refused vaccinations.

“You choose, vaccine or I will have you jailed,” a masked Duterte said in a televised address in June 2021. “There is a crisis in this country … I’m just exasperated by Filipinos not heeding the government.”

When he addressed the vaccination issue, the Philippines had among the worst inoculation rates in Southeast Asia. Only 2.1 million of its 114 million citizens were fully vaccinated – far short of the government’s target of 70 million. By the time Duterte spoke, COVID cases exceeded 1.3 million, and almost 24,000 Filipinos had died from the virus. The difficulty in vaccinating the population contributed to the worst death rate in the region.

A spokesperson for Duterte did not make the former president available for an interview.

Some Filipino healthcare professionals and former officials contacted by Reuters were shocked by the U.S. anti-vax effort, which they say exploited an already vulnerable citizenry. Public concerns about a Dengue fever vaccine, rolled out in the Philippines in 2016, had led to broad skepticism toward inoculations overall, said Lulu Bravo, executive director of the Philippine Foundation for Vaccination. The Pentagon campaign preyed on those fears.

 

[Macallik86]

Was about to start a thread on this in Higher Learning. Reuters did a deep dive:

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/

A part of me always assumed that America had grown as a country and put this kind of thing behind us. It's sad/alarming to know that we are still putting lives at risk while playing (geo)politics

 

[skyrunner1]

A part of me always assumed that America had grown as a country and put this kind of thing behind us. It's sad/alarming to know that we are still putting lives at risk while playing (geo)politics

 

[BaggerofTea]

If another country did this, there would be calls for an international investigation

 

[ORDER_66]

corrupt ass men behind the scenes that we didnt vote for get to do things to fukk us over... but keep voting things will change ya'll

 

[loyola llothta]

the wizard is just a man inside the booth behind the curtain …Behaving like a serpent

 

[Pazzy]

If another country did this, there would be calls for an international investigation

After all the shyttalking you were doing to all of us who didnt get the vaccine being a shilling ass cheerleader, shut the fukk up. You constantly lying and trying to reinvite yourself to avoid being held accountable for your bullshyt. Just shut up

 

[BaggerofTea]

After all the shyttalking you were doing to all of us who didnt get the vaccine being a shilling ass cheerleader, shut the fukk up. You constantly lying and trying to reinvite yourself to avoid being held accountable for your bullshyt. Just shut up

Don't quote me you mentally ill fakkit, there is a reason I don't comment on any of your crazy dumbass shyt.


Keep my name out of your mouth hoe

 

[Vandelay]

Was it to sell more or to sustain/increase division that Phillipines has with China?

Either way, the US hasn't gotten rid of all if it's dirty tricks. They're usually just more subtle.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

That's a legit news source, so posters can't juelze their way out of trying to explain it.

It's bad optics, but some posters will either avoid the thread altogether or have revisionist history about the rhetoric they were using on the sight at the time.

Before anyone tries it, I got both vaccine shots at the time, so I'm not anti-vax by any means.

 

[tremonthustler1]

corrupt ass men behind the scenes that we didnt vote for get to do things to fukk us over... but keep voting things will change ya'll

then your proposal is to...

 

[Elim Garak]

Shocking!

 

[Pazzy]

Don't quote me you mentally ill fakkit, there is a reason I don't comment on any of your crazy dumbass shyt.


Keep my name out of your mouth hoe

bytch, the fact that you cant humble yourself enough to shut the fukk up when youre WRONG is the problem. now you wanna switch and be an anti vaxx after you were shaming folks for not being vaccinated from those covid vaccines. I told yall that @BaggerofTea was nothing but a goofy lying ass bytch. Told your ass YEARS ago dont start with me or im going to remind your ass every fukking step of the way.

 

[ORDER_66]

then your proposal is to...

when the empire comes crumbling down you will see what needs to be done that's all im saying...

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

If another country did this, there would be calls for an international investigation

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/global-pulse/2021/01/28/what-chinas-vax-trolling-adds-up-to-491548

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While China observers said the exact purpose of the vaccine smear campaign isn’t clear, that’s almost beside the point. In just a few weeks, it’s already seeding doubts about the safety of shots from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, providing talking points for vaccine skeptics in the United States and giving countries rhetorical cover to purchase Chinese-made vaccines that appear to be less effective than the two leading Western ones.

Business as usual......

Coke vs. Pepsi​