William Bird is director of Media Monitoring Africa and Thandi Smith heads the Policy & Quality Programme at MMA, a partner in the 411 platform to counter disinformation.Towards the end of July we had the darkly comical diversion of an angry, largely white, middle-classwho were marching for their rights, and to protect their right to freedom of association.
This “vaccines will kill you” kind of content often runs with conspiracy theories that the virus was deliberately engineered to kill lots of people. We are being told it is the vaccine that will kill you, but at the same time also that the virus was designed to kill. So, it opens the doors to ivermectin, or several alternatives like hot water, peroxide and garlic.
So the trauma will be less if a vaccinated person died? I for one would think the impact of a person 'bs-ed' in believing they are protected death will be more traumatic. Will the families weep less for a vaccinated mother that died?