A coronavirus vaccine doesn’t even exist now, yet WorldNetDaily has spent months fearmongering about it. And as vaccine candidates move closer to approval the fearmongering has continued.
Barbara Simpson ranted in her Sept. 25 column that the idea a vaccine will “suddenly fix everything” couldn’t be “further from the truth,” citing relatively rare cases in Africa where some people have caught polio from the vaccine. From there, it was quickly onto Bill Gates conspiracy territory:
It doesn’t help that there are some big names associated with the program. The vaccine being used in Africa comes from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) – which is supported and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Interesting, isn’t it, that news media have ignored this growing catastrophe. Is it because it’s in Africa – or because of the name “Gates”? You decide. Despite the failures, the vaccine campaign continues.
[…]In fact, the Gateses also fund the GAVI Vaccine Alliance, which is running COVID-19 vaccine human trials in South Africa along with the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, which is also another Gates-funded institution.
My question is, given the result of the failure of the polio vaccine in Africa, why isn’t there more pressure being put on the Gates people, and indeed the U.N. and WHO, concerning the safety of a COVID-19 vaccine?
Daniel Joseph served up an Oct. 2 video by Daniel Joseph asks the question, “Is a forced COVID vaccine the Mark of the Beast?” His answer appears to be yes, declaring that “this has the Antichrist written all over it.” (No, we didn’t sit through the entire tedious hour-and-a-half video.)
Brent Smith’s Oct. 9 column went anti-vaxxer, declaring that “if your diseased child doesn’t negatively affect me or my family, it isn’t my problem,” adding: “The science is all there. Any parent can research the safety and warnings of vaccines and make an educated decision to vaccinate their children and themselves, or not. This may seem rather selfish, but that’s the price of freedom, and your stupidity and fear shall not trump my liberty.”
This followed up on a column Smith wrote in August declaring that getting the vaccine is a matter of “My Body, My Choice.” He invoked both Saul Alinsky and Chinese “social credit” schemes in the process, the concluded by claiming: “They’re already taking away our right to choose how we vote. Soon, I fear, we may have to make a hard decision to choose, or not, to be vaccinated. And if we choose the latter, there will be consequences, as we move closer to the Chinese model.”
(We overlooked this when it was first posted, but Scott Lively spent a column in July freaking out over the remote possibility that the Supreme Court could mandate a vaccine, adding that “the only hope I can see for avoiding mandatory vaccines is a Trump reelection accompanied either by 1) full GOP control of Congress, or 2) a quick flip of SCOTUS to a conservative majority.” This being the gay-hating Lively, he also took a detour to rant about gay marriage.)