Speaking of frauds, it seems Florida might have manipulated their report on COVID Vaccinations to deliver the political result they wanted.
In short: The early drafts showed the vaccine didn't detectably increase heart attacks and saved lives through not getting COVID. But somehow that got trimmed out before publication.
You may recall Florida’s vaccine analysis which claimed that mRNA vaccines are associated with increased risk of cardiac death in young men. This week, the Tampa Bay Times shared earlier, unp…
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It's become an interesting sociological study to see how the divide between anti-vaxxers and the jabbers has become pronounced along political lines and you can see similar cases through history...as Denso mentioned in the link to Smallpox during the early 20th century.
By chance i found a link discussing this
@Wired.com with a few selected highlights...
It took the Covid-19 pandemic to really expose the power that germs have over our lives. But bacteria and viruses have been shaping our world in invisible ways for millennia, influencing not only our individual bodies but also the shape of the world we live in: history, politics, religion. That’s the argument made by public health researcher and sociologist Jonathan Kennedy in his compelling new book,
Pathogenesis: How Germs Made History. “In the spring of 2020 loads of people were saying, ‘This is extraordinary, this is unprecedented,’” he says. “I had a pretty good idea that it wasn’t.”
There are other compelling examples of germs changing the course of history: how the Black Death reduced the working population and made labor more valuable, sparking the end of feudalism; how malaria rendered much of Africa impenetrable until the 1880s until the widespread use of quinine (which comes from the bark of the South American cinchona tree).
Diseases may also be responsible for the spread of religions like Christianity, which exploded in popularity after the third-century Plague of Cyprian, which was,
some scientists now believe, a type of hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola. Christianity encouraged acts of kindness as a route into heaven—rather than fleeing from the sick, Christians nursed them back to health, drastically improving their survival rates. “Even with basic nursing, providing people with water and food, you could maybe save two-thirds of people who were sick,” Kennedy says. To the untrained eye, this would have looked a lot like a miracle—the best kind of publicity for any new religion. In comparison, “paganism didn’t provide a very helpful way for interpreting the impact of infectious disease outbreaks,” Kennedy says.
But the spread of Christianity also spread the notion of man’s dominion over nature. In the long term, that attitude has contributed to climate change and driven our relentless push into remote areas, both things that can distribute new diseases as we rub up against nature in strange new ways.
Things came full circle with Covid, though. It remains to be seen what impact the latest pandemic will have. “Being in the eye of the storm it’s hard to tell, but if we look back at history there’s so many cases of pandemics, epidemics coming along, killing lots of people, harming societies, and creating the space for new ideas and new societies to emerge,” Kennedy says. “Probably when we look back at this period we’ll see that there were changes that were maybe already underway, but that Covid-19 has either accelerated them or changed the trajectory of history.”