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Increasingly weird Farage speaks out against Covid vaccines

Nigel Farage’s politics are a combination of British nationalism plus whatever the Yanks believe in. As a result, Farage will often come out with stuff that sounds bizarre to English ears — such as scrapping the NHS. The latest example of this is Farage speaking out against the Covid vaccinations:

Absolute freak behaviour.

Yankification of Britain

As we’ve reported, Donald Trump and his health secretary RFK Jr. both have some odd opinions around medicine. Late last year, this saw them claiming paracetamol may cause autism — a claim they later backed away from. Oh, and for reference, this is RFK Jr:

Personally, we don’t take health advice from weirdoes who subject their grandchildren to potentially harmful bacteria, but that’s just us.

The important thing to note is that while some politicians are happy to advise you don’t get vaccinated, that doesn’t mean they won’t:

Of course, this isn’t the first time Farage has waded into the debate:

Various health experts have written about Covid vaccine misinformation, with a recent article from the British Medical Journal reporting:

Vaccine misinformation and disinformation being spread in the US—including by senior politicians—is affecting patients and researchers in Europe, experts have warned.

Speaking at the World Vaccine Congress Europe in Amsterdam on 14 October, public health policy makers and industry leaders warned of the “domino effect” of messaging coming from the US. The conference also heard that investment in vaccine development and technologies had started declining as a result of the negative sentiment in the US and recent political decisions.

Speakers said that since President Trump retook office and made Robert F Kennedy Jr his health chief, the administration had cut vaccine research funding, made unfounded claims about vaccines and autism, fired vaccine experts and other health staff, and given mixed messaging on measles vaccination amid a deadly outbreak of the disease.

Conspiracy

Reporter Don McGowan reported in September:

Ah, I see Farage’s other business is being given a run out this afternoon.

In case anyone isn’t aware, Farage is the Chairman [and founder] of an odd, anti-vax, anti-World Health Organisation called, Action on World Health.

Renowned anti-vax crank, Aseem Malhotra is their ‘Chief Health Advisor’.

Action on World Health say they want to ‘replace the WHO’. It’s a whole Brexit but for health thing. They even use the same slogans — Take Back Control etc.

It’s headed up by another shady guy called David Roach who is a lobbyist for the nicotine industry.

Now, the logical conclusion, the anti-vax propaganda to the captive audience. The RFK Jr moment.

They’ve now sewn the seeds of doubt around vaccines to a 3/4 full NEC hall.

Someone tell me again, how Farage and his businesses are not a threat to the public. Please.

As the YouTuber HBomberGuy detailed, there’s a lot of money to be made in vaccine scepticism:

 

It was always very clear why the right descended into conspiracy on the topic of Covid. Combating the pandemic required a state-driven response and for collective action. This was the stuff of nightmares from the libertarian shite hawks who push small government and individualism.

It was particularly nightmarish because it showed that the state can (and did) end problems like homelessness overnight. If it wasn’t for the waves of conspiracy which the right whipped up, maybe people would have asked ‘why doesn’t the state fix other problems?‘ rather than ‘is there 5G in my Covid vaxx?‘

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By Willem Moore

This post was originally published on Canary.