Jewish Vaccince Enthusiast Suggests Shutting It Down

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You bring your sick kid to the hospital and this guys shows up to treat them. What do you do?



The Influence of the Anti-Vaccine Movement

What can medical professionals do to ameliorate some of these things you're talking about? And to what degree is this now a political matter, and medical professionals can't do much?

Well, first of all, I think the federal government needs to do two things, one of which I think they're starting, and the other, which so far they've resisted, and most people have resisted. The first thing they need to do is implement a communications plan. And I know it's going to start with a series of public-service announcements. I don't think that's going to be adequate. I think because there are going to be issues on a regular basis, they're going to need government scientists out there on a frequent basis, sort of like what Cuomo did in New York in March and April, but for vaccines. And I'm prepared to do that as much as possible. But I think having government scientists, people whose faces get familiar, is going to make a big difference. That's No. 1. No. 2, which nobody seems to have the appetite for, is you've got to take down the confederacy, the anti-vaccine empire. You've got to take the content off social media, off Facebook. I mean, Amazon right now is the single largest promoter of fake anti-vaccine books. That's got to stop.

So you're saying that this is something that business and society need to take steps to deal with.

Yeah. I think the tech giants have done the minimum possible to give the optics of some level of social responsibility, but the truth is that they are getting a significant amount of revenue from promoting the agenda of the anti-vaccine groups. Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, you name it. And so that's a problem. And one of the other problems is that if the U.S. government's going to take out some of this, they can't do it with the Health & Human Services agencies alone. They've got to bring in Homeland Security, they've got to bring in the State Department. Because the other piece to this is, besides the homegrown anti-vaccine groups, you have the Russian disinformation, or what some call weaponized health communication.

I've been on Zoom calls all year with various people talking about fine-tuning the message, amplifying our message, getting the word out. Then I say something which is quite disappointing for people. I say, "Look, it's great that you're doing this. It's important we step up our communications plan. But all of those messages are messages in bottles in the Atlantic Ocean. And we've got to do something about the Atlantic Ocean." We're only going to get about thirty to forty per cent of the way there with all of this just stepping up the message, because it's being drowned out by the anti-vaccine groups, both the homegrown ones and what's coming out of Russia.