... about 2 or 3 years ago, when I was still on Plebbit... noticing that there was a clear and severe astroturding campaign against "anti-vaxxers."
It struck me as incredibly strange at the time, virtually all subreddits got infiltrated with "pro-vaxxers" who would take every opportunity and do everything they could to insert jokes about antivaxxers or somehow relate every post to pro-vaxxing propganda. And this was on subreddits thay had absolutely nothing to do with vaxxing or health or anything.
Like I said, it struck me as extrenely noticeable as an organized campaign and seemed incredibly strange at the time.
Sure seems funny, looking back on it now.
I had noticed this. Also on youttube comments and elsewhere, there was always "anti-vax" jokes. And when they want to talk about some low IQ person, they would instead call them "anti-vax mum" or some such thing.
In the media, there were all these subtle stories of measles outbreak, and how a pregnant lady almost lost her unborn, because she came in contact with someone who was not vaccinated, blah blah.
Infact, I never took it seriously, until one day I said "to heck with it, let me see what kind of nonsense they use as an excuse for saying vaxx causes autism" and when I dug even a little bit, what I found was amazing. The moment I found out that legally, it had been established that there is a small set of kids with a mitochondrial condition that, when vaxxed are very highly prone to getting autism, my mind was blown away.
And then the more I dug into the more I found stuff, the whole vaxx injury court, the government witness - pro-vax doctor - who refused to make a blanket statement that autism is not caused by vaccines, and how they told him not to show up to the court but instead misrepresented his statements and ended up getting sued by him, which lead legal trail all over the place.
Then I opened my mind to listen to Robert Kennedy Jr, and after hearing what he had to say, I sat down my wife and told her that we might have made a mistake vaccinating our son. We are both Asian, and no one in our combined families have peanut allergy - and there he was, developed peanut allergy and it was the darndest thing - we never understood it. Now I think it was probably triggered by the vaccines he was given. When I read about how much healthier unvaxxed kids are compared to vaxxed, it breaks our heart that we didn't give him the best start in life.