A few years ago, i read a headline, made by a pro-vaccine person, laughing at how stupid anti-vaxxers were, for believing the story about
"FBI raids the CDC!"
and of course, since I'm immersed in vaccine/anti-vaccine stuff all day long, i found it strange that i had not heard of this story yet.
for a moment, i was happy at the thought of it, but that didn't last long.
when i went looking for more info on this supposed story, all i found was an army of pro-vaccine accounts, tweeting almost the same stuff, but slightly different.
basically, every pro-vaccine blogger in the world covered this story, with the headline of
"Look at what those stupid anti-vaxxers believe...this FALSE story about the FBI raiding the CDC"
except, there were no anti-vaxxers talking about it at all.
so i read several of these blogs, and it quickly became evident that they were all working together in a massive circle jerk, organized from a central point.
Blog A, cited blog B,
Blog B, cited blog C,
Blog C, cited blog D,
Blog D, cited blog E,
....
Blog Z, cited blog A
so where was the actual story about the FBI raiding the CDC?
it was made up by someone named Sorcha Faal, who somehow makes a living publishing endless stream of bullshit on the internet
http://google.com/search?q=Sorcha+Faal+FBI+raids+CDC
another time, right after the Boston Marathon Bombing psyop, the Boston FBI asked for the publics help in finding the suspects, and soon thereafter "reddit" was blamed for surfacing a suspect named Sunil Tripathi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Sunil_Tripathi
except, "Sunil Tripathi" was probably a made-up character, or crisis actor, who was injected into the story to make it more Hollywood,
but more importantly, they used Sunil Tripathi as an excuse to clamp down on internet sleuthing, and to use as an excuse to dismiss anything any redditor says,
and the reason i say this is the reason, is because they over-played the "OMG YOU AWFUL PEOPLE ONLINE WHO FINGERED THE WRONG GUY IN A HEINOUS CRIME. YOU SHOULD JUST LOG OFF AND GO OUTSIDE AND GET SOME FRESH AIR.
https://www.reddit.com/search?q=Sunil+Tripathi&restrict_sr=&sort=relevance&t=all
Which brings us to Damar Hamlin, the NFL player who faked an injury,
During Monday Night Football, late in the season, when games matter more,
Emotions are high.
Football is a lot of peoples "safe space" where they can just tune out their personal problems for a while, and get away from it all...
Previously, a lot of athletes had collapsed, and the mainstream media had successfully been able to ignore them.
But with Damar Hamlin, everyone on TV had his jersey by the next day?
So, in order to gain control of the "died suddenly, doctors baffled" narrative,
They fake an injury, during a high-profile game, and immediately start giving out conflicting information.
for example,
Damar was laying in the "fencing posture" which is indication of a concussion.
https://i.redd.it/q9fb15dwo4aa1.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fencing_response
Damar didn't get CPR for 9 minutes? that seems suspiciously long to start CPR, and also too long to have a good prognosis for recovery.
Damar's uncle claimed he was resuscitated TWICE,
Later, it was clarified that he was only resuscitated ONCE.
So heres how it all might have gone down...
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They have Damar fake a collapse on field.
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They immediately flood the internet with posts, criticizing anti-vaxxers for blaming vaccines, even though at that point, anti-vaxxers were not doing that.
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Anti-vaxxers eventually see the chatter, take the bait, and start blaming vaccines.
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Prediction: Damar is later diagnosed with some "rare heart disorder" that is only found is the most oppressed people in the world.
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They come out, and call anti-vaxxers insensitive, stupid, gullible, mean, for picking on poor little Damar and his rare heart condition.
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going forward, any on-field collapse, in any sport, will be talked-over with BUT DAMAR DAMAR DAMAR
Their reactions are just crazy! Literally NOBODY on twitter is blaming Damar Hamlin's collapse on a vaccine related blood-clot, BUT there are endless tweets from normies who are spitting mad about anyone who might consider the possibility...
Damar Hamlin’s tragic on-field collapse: To antivaxxers, it’s always the vaccines. Always.
As a physician I believe Damar Hamlin was likely suffering from commotio cordis where a blow to the chest at a precise moment in the electrical cycle stops the heart. Those trying to tie this to vaccine status to project their unscientific beliefs are terrible, horrible people.
https://twitter.com/drdawg1996/status/1610112190555557888
What's going on with Damar Hamlin? ... What's really going on with Damar Hamlin?
HOAX https://twitter.com/search?q=Hamlin%20hoax
FAKE https://twitter.com/search?q=Hamlin%20fake
FENCING https://twitter.com/search?q=Hamlin%20fencing
"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
~Karl Rove
That's part of his point, did they stage all that weirdness with Damar to bait us? Maybe they did and it ultimately backfired as the uptake has plummeted as you pointed out.
Maybe, but such a ruse would alert more people to the existence of psychological operations in general. Why have the real Hamlin try to act as if he’s a fake Hamlin in order to bait antivaxxers into incredibility when the best way to discredit them would be with a vaxx that actually is necessary, safe, and effective. The desperate ploy just highlights that the vaxx itself is unable to discredit its critics.
My speculation thus far: in 2021 all across the vaxxed world we saw young, fit athletes collapsing at unprecedented rates, but somehow the NFL mostly got lucky that year despite its vaxx mandate, and despite the fact that usually a 330 lb NFL lineman is more likely to have a cardiac event than a 165 lb soccer player. I guessed that the American spirit is more rebellious than most of the rest of the modern world, so rowdy American football players would rebel against the mandate by faking the vaxx, which several players including Antonio Brown were caught doing. Hamlin was a rookie in 2021 trying to make it in the league, so he might’ve been less confident about faking the vaxx, and so he took a real one. A year later he had a real vaxx event and then all the weirdness ensued.
I could be wrong, and Hamlin’s event was fake. If so, the vaxxers are even more batshit crazy than previously thought, as their ploy backfired like you said.
Given how he really didn't want to discuss his health afterwards in interviews the event might have been real but they weren't going to let a crisis go to waste as it was too high-profile.