The great COVID-19 infodemic: How disinformation networks are radicalizing Canadians
Despite health warnings, horse medicine being purchased to treat COVID-19 – Sep 1, 2021It’s difficult to determine exactly who these people are. Results from cycle two of the Public Health Agency of Canada’sreleased earlier this year showed, of the five per cent of Canadians who did not intend to get vaccinated, they tended to be younger, male, have less than a post-secondary education, and a household income of less than $60,000.
Advertisements promote a speaker series of prominent “activists”: David Icke, Americans Ty and Charlene Bollinger, infamous Canadian anti-vaccine protestor Chris Sky . Though Sky boasts more than 50,000 Telegram subscribers, some of the unvaccinated now label him a “grifter” and ask for his videos to be removed from public channels.Politicians hanged in effigy at protest at B.C.
“This feels like it’s gone from being just like, ‘Oh, this is just in the alternative world. And this is just a conspiracy theory, we can kind of ignore it,’ to ‘This has pulled growing political power.'” In one channel, someone posits the question: “Any unvaccinated guys here having trouble finding unvaccinated women in Ontario/ Quebec?”Another says the vaccine can be shared via sexual intercourse. Another says they don’t want any vaccinated people in their house.
“I would never lie to a woman about my vaccination status. In fact, it’s the first thing I ask now to women. If they’re vaxxed, I move on,” the original poster says.Someone asks if there are any unvaxxed dating sites yet. Apparently there are.
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