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"Yet someone is paying for this major social media propaganda push that anti-vaxxers are all low IQ deplorables who kill their own children." Why would people be paying for this? There are probably millions of people out there who would be willing to say something similar without payment.
Because it ostracizes 'anti-vaxxers' as a group and creates a 'them' or 'us' mentality. Vaccines aren't 100% safe, there's been something like $4 billion paid out in compensation for them, and to get compensation you have to legally absolve them of liability and keep the media out of it! But by pushing the narrative and ridiculing anyone who asks legitimate questions the pharmaceutical companies bury that and no-one…
On the other hand, there is hormonal contraception, which is indeed a great profit center, because people need it every day (or a hormonal IUD, which is good for 3-5 years, but also a lot more expensive).
And now read news reports about all the nasty side effects of the pill. There was a big shift around 2016 and since then, there are media reports all the time. Nothing is put under the carpet here, although I think, economically speaking, it would make much more sense to “manipulate the media” that hormonal contraceptives have no side effects than manipulating the media about vaccines.
And the number of people affected is even less than with vaccines (only women in a certain age and not all of them vs. basically all children and many adults). So it should even be easier to manipulate the media about the non-existence of side-effects of the pill (of which stuff like thrombosis is deadly).
I know, just because one thing isn’t manipulated, everything about vaccines could still be manipulated, but I don’t buy it. Follow the money – doesn’t seem that lucrative.