> ‘The clandestine operation has not been previously reported. It aimed to sow doubt about the safety and efficacy of vaccines and other life-saving aid that was being supplied by China, a Reuters investigation found. Through phony internet accounts meant to impersonate Filipinos, the military’s propaganda efforts morphed into an anti-vax campaign. Social media posts decried the quality of face masks, test kits and the first vaccine that would become available in the Philippines – China’s Sinovac inoculation. … Reuters identified at least 300 accounts on X’
Oh, it looks like the same government telling us we need to take an experimental vaccine (despite a ban on forced experimental medical treatments under international law...) was using its other hand to spread disinformation about the vaccine to others.
If you don't buy into the benevolent government dogma then you're a conspiracy theory nut, though.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 1 year ago, 6 minutes later, 21 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,302,595
@previous (B)
The topic, the discussion, is about news that just came out showing the government was actively working to convince people the vaccine was unsafe.
Is this the exact moment the "trust the government crowd" is deciding that were done talking about this? 🤔
Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 1 hour later, 14 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,302,716
Trump did operation warp speed that expedited the clinical trials. I literally know someone who participated in a round of testing a few months before the vaccine was available to the public. Touch some grass
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No he barely paid attention to his job. He mostly at McDonalds, watched cable news, and tweeted. If he weren't such a fuckhead I'd actually be proud on behalf of slackers everywhere.
> What caused the disconnect between the brass' interventionism and Trump's isolationism?
The aforementioned laziness and also his isolationist rhetoric was just that - rhetoric. He bombed more than Obama and we were fighting the same wars when he left than when he started pretty much. The only thing that ended was the war against ISIS whose ground combat was almost exclusively handled by non-US forces since it began anyway.
Lying to our allies about China is also totally consistent with his (borderline retarded) understanding of isolationism anyway. Does it make the Chinese government mad? Yes. Does it directly endanger US citizens? No. So he wouldn't have opposed even if he paid attention (which he almost never did).
Was it counterproductive and did it ultimately kill citizens of our allies? That's unfortunately a higher level of thinking (8th or 9th grade-level) he never quite was capable of achieving. I'm sorry to say, but I'm afraid given his advanced age he may never get there either.