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Introduction – Jan 11, 2023

With the Conservative Party MP Andrew Bridgen now comparing the Covid vaccination campaign with the Holocaust it’s clear that vaccine hesitancy and questions about vaccine safety are going mainstream.

As indeed they should, for last year 50,000 more Britons died than in a normal year. The Daily Mail suggests that these excess deaths may have been because ‘the health system is not functioning as it should’ without mentioning the obvious.

The elephant in the room being the fact that the sudden surge in excess deaths neatly coincided with the launch of the Covid vaccination drive.

Meanwhile the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) has concluded that vaccinated individuals are more likely to contract and spread Covid-19 than unvaccinated individuals.

The CDC’s misgivings are echoed by an Oxford University study and a UK Department of Health and Social Care study. None of which can be seen as breeding grounds for conspiracy theories. Yet the Guardian is only to happy to suggest that “Covid conspiracies” are a gateway to much “more extremist hate movements”.

In other words the Guardian implies that vaccine sceptics are little better than the most odious extremists. It does this with the help of comments from various “experts”. Like Tim Squirrell, the head of communications at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, which was founded in 1989 to cater for the banking industry.

Don’t ask me why banking experts know more about vaccine safety than someone like Michael Yeadon, former chief scientist at Pfizer and now an outspoken vaccine sceptic, but you get the idea.

Banking concerns have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo and in this case that means smearing those who ask too many awkward questions.

As for the reformed ‘vaccine sceptic’ interviewed below we wouldn’t be surprised if he was in the pay of the British security services. Seriously, they have a history of infiltrating groups that could prove troublesome, be they Muslim extremist cells or radical environmental groups.

So the vaccine safety debate is no longer a simple health issue. It’s a political issue with far reaching ramifications and the corporate media is supporting the official narrative 100 percent.

As illutrated by the following Guardian article, the MSM does this by completely ignoring the points raised by vaccine sceptics like Michael Yeadon. Instead of examing these points the Guardian insinuates that scepticism about the Covid vaccine, which was never fully tested, is a pathway to extremism. Ed.

‘I was wrong’: how Covid conspiracies became a gateway to extreme views

Some Covid deniers have regrets, but others have joined more extremist hate movements

Ben Quinn – The Guardian Jan 11, 2023

Lewis traces the moment his once deeply held Covid-19 conspiracy theories began to unravel. It was in September last year, when a doctor engaged him and fellow activists in conversation as they handed out leaflets in a Liverpool park.

“We were always open to debate and she wasn’t hostile to us either. She just wanted to prove us wrong. One of the things she did was to point me to an article in the Lancet about the number of deaths,” he said, referring to the peer-reviewed general medical journal.

“From then on I was looking at the data, which I was always open to, and I came to realise I was wrong to believe what I did,” added Lewis, who has asked for only his first name to be used.

Nearly three years on from the start of the pandemic in Britain however, there was a stark reminder of the continuing reach of conspiracy theories on Wednesday when Tory MP Andrew Bridgen lost the party whip after comparing the use of Covid vaccines to the Holocaust. Lewis’s journey away from the beliefs that once enveloped his life meanwhile stands in contrast to others for whom Covid-19 conspiracy theories have acted as a gateway drug to other, more extreme views.

“Over the past several years, particularly during Covid, we’ve seen an increasing hybridisation of extremist and hate movements, and conspiracy theorists,” said Tim Squirrell, head of communications at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a London-based extremism thinktank.

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