National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) was founded in 1982 in Virginia by anti-vaxxers Barbra Loe Fisher, Kathi Williams, and Jeff Schwartz. Do they actually not understand how science works? Who knows, but Republicans, Conservatives, and Libertarians have found them useful pawns to attempt to dismantle our healthcare.
NVIC is funded and influenced by members of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS). The AAPS came into existence in 1944 to stop socialized medicine. In the 1940s, the Wagner-Murray Dingell Bill was a proposal to institute a national medical and hospitalization program. AAPS stopped that.
One of AAPS's current members is "Doctor" Rand Paul. He at one point said Medicare 4 All was slavery, and another is Joseph Mercola, an osteopathic doctor. Mercola funds some of those little "proof" of vaccines being harmful youtube videos AND the NVIC —Mercola makes millions selling vitamins.
AAPS' guides the NVIC.
Do you think the people at the top of this food chain are ignorant? No, they're well-informed with the power to manipulate.
And the people who follow these selfish and racist sadists to their graves —they are unfortunately the accidentally ignorant.
The anti-vaccine movement is not about your health, my health, or anyone else's health. The anti-vaccine movement is to delegitimize the idea of ACA or Medicare For All.
The reason scion capitalist “doctor” Rand Paul was so angry about US Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D,NY) getting the COVID-19 vaccine is because it legitimized public healthcare.
"If you were healthy, you wouldn't need medicine," says the quack.
Except he's not a real quack. He is insincere, not ignorant. He is using ableism, moralizing of illness and poverty, to get you to sign away your right to healthcare.
Healthcare is a right.
It is part of the social contract.
Just like charter schools aren't about educating "inner-city" children and trickle-down economics is not about making capitalism fair —anti-vaxxism isn't about providing you with good healthcare
Antivaxxism is about racism, capitalism, not sharing, and making us ALL desperate, so the wealthy can work us to death.
Tell your friends to wake up and smell the quacks —of the right-wing sadists who take the private in private practice literally.
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