Elizabeth Tai | ζ΄η§ι π²πΎNo, really, this is not some conspiracy theory Youtuber reporting this. Reuters broke the story about the Pentagon spreading disinformation about #COVID19 vaccines. Here's how the world is reacting to the news.
LOL am removing the vaccine hashtag cos I don't want to attract anti-vaxxers. Ain't got no mood for nonsense today.
FYI: Malaysians DIED waiting for COVID19 vaccines. We had such a limited supply that there was a LOTTERY to give out the vaccines. Not everyone got a chance, I was one of the lucky first batches of recipients. Some of those who weren't lucky end up dying. Please do not insult me with your anti-vax rhetoric.
FYI: Malaysians DIED waiting for COVID19 vaccines. We had such a limited supply that there was a LOTTERY to give out the vaccines. Not everyone got a chance, I was one of the lucky first batches of recipients. Some of those who weren't lucky end up dying. Please do not insult me with your anti-vax rhetoric.
Julie Webgirl@juliewebgirl @melanie all of us masked. No problem. In fact there's societal pressure to mask - the community largely enforced it themselves
@juliewebgirl @melanie PS I am still masking till this day - in crowded areas.
Past tense? Nobody is masking now and there is no societal pressure to mask now. Yet here we are still in the pandemic with people getting Covid over and over again. Masking prevents infection and spread. Vaccines help keep you out of the hospital. More yelling about masking instead of vaccines would make more sense.
@melanie
Elizabeth Tai | ζ΄η§ι π²πΎ (@liztai@hachyderm.io)
No, really, this is not some conspiracy theory Youtuber reporting this. Reuters broke the story about the Pentagon spreading disinformation about #COVID19 vaccines. Here's how the world is reacting to the news. #COVID #Sinovac #China #Disinformation http://elizabethtai.com/2024/06/21/a-secret-pentagon-campaign-to-spread-vaccine-disinformation-has-come-to-light/
@juliewebgirl where is here? I am confused. I am in Malaysia btw. Yes it's more relaxed here now but I am talking about in the past. @melanie
@juliewebgirl @melanie for context while there's no yelling about masks and vaccines now, some of us are still masking in crowded places. I wish everyone was but mandates tend to generate protests and are hard to enforce even in communal Asia
Anita Lewis@liztai @juliewebgirl @melanie
I noticed that the percentage of the population in Malaysia dying of Covid was hugely lower than that of the U.S.A. That says something about the quality of vaccine being just fine and the benefit of the positive attitude toward masking.
EllenInEdmonton 
@ajlewis2 @liztai @juliewebgirl @melanie
During my recent trip to the US, I was quite surprised to see how many folks in retail and F&B were masked for work with a bike shop recommending masking to customers. I guessed that this was due to the lack of public health care and sick pay for most workers in those areas.
During my recent trip to the US, I was quite surprised to see how many folks in retail and F&B were masked for work with a bike shop recommending masking to customers. I guessed that this was due to the lack of public health care and sick pay for most workers in those areas.
@EllenInEdmonton @liztai @juliewebgirl @melanie
Ellen, I'm glad to hear this. I live in Central Florida and when I shop for groceries or go to a doctor I may see one or two people with a mask. My doctor had been wearing one, but last visit he was not. There were more masked up through 2021, but this year it's very rare here. I'm happy to say that not one person has ridiculed me for wearing mine here. Were you mainly up in the northern part of the country?
@ajlewis2 @liztai @juliewebgirl @melanie
I was in the #PNW. I expected that Americans would be even more anti-mask than Canadians but apparently, a fair number of folks like to stay disease-free. I rarely wear my mask in places where people are spread out but I keep one handy for enclosed and crowded spaces.
I was in the #PNW. I expected that Americans would be even more anti-mask than Canadians but apparently, a fair number of folks like to stay disease-free. I rarely wear my mask in places where people are spread out but I keep one handy for enclosed and crowded spaces.
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@tewha What part of "βPentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic.β" didn't you understand? @drahardja
@liztai @drahardja The first line of the linked article contains the actual action.
βThe U.S. military launched a clandestine program amid the COVID crisis to discredit Chinaβs Sinovac inoculation.β
Or, if you like shorter, βthe USβs anti-Sinovac campaign.β
Kicko 
@liztai so at the end of the day no one knows what real anymore.
Chu ζ±What I find totally shameful is how few Western media outlets covered this story.
This should one of the biggest news stories of the month and crickets.
@chu I mean, why would they? It won't serve their narrative that their heroes of the world. /shrugs.
But oh you betcha that most of the world are aware. The global majority. The Western folks are kept ignorant about this and I'm sad. Good people there that would be horrified by this.
But oh you betcha that most of the world are aware. The global majority. The Western folks are kept ignorant about this and I'm sad. Good people there that would be horrified by this.
MarΓa Arias de Reyna@liztai I can't know where the gossip came from. But it arrived to Spain too. People were relieved we were not getting Chinese vaccines because they were so bad you would die from the vaccine faster than from covid. It was obviously a plot to clean China's image after creating the virus.
There was a second plot of China having indeed a real vaccine that were given to Chinese people but not the rest of the world. A way for China to conquer the world. West pharmaceutical companies saved the world.
There was a second plot of China having indeed a real vaccine that were given to Chinese people but not the rest of the world. A way for China to conquer the world. West pharmaceutical companies saved the world.
Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle@delawen @liztai Medical doctor here. IDK how many vaccines were developed in Chinea, but we did receive Sinovac in Brazil, and it is by far the one with fewer adverse effects. (Over the years I took 2 doses of Sinovac, 2 different Moderna and 2 different Pfizer, or something like that.) It was developed using a well known mechanism which underlies a lot of classical vaccines for other diseases, including some you probably took. Its problem is being less effective then the RNA ones.
@delawen Thanks for this! That's what I heard about Sinovac too. I am just grateful we got enough vaccines to survive the pandemic. It doesn't matter where it comes from, we will accept them. This aversion to vaccines due to country of origin is odd and sinophobic.
@liztai I guess you would agree Sinovac was shared with developing countries for China to gather soft geopolitical power, and this was the probable reason for the US disinformation campaign. Back then, Canada was stockpiling Astra Zeneca (or was it Pfizer?) at five doses per capita