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   Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 09:54:55 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

   No, really, this is not some conspiracy theory Youtuber reporting this. Reuters broke the story about the Pentagon spreading disinformation about #COVID19 #vaccines. Here's how the world is reacting to the news.

   #COVID #Sinovac #China

   http://elizabethtai.com/2024/06/21/a-secret-pentagon-campaign-to-spread-vaccine-disinformation-has-come-to-light/

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 10:20:39 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     LOL am removing the vaccine hashtag cos I don't want to attract anti-vaxxers. Ain't got no mood for nonsense today.
     FYI: Malaysians DIED waiting for COVID19 vaccines. We had such a limited supply that there was a LOTTERY to give out the vaccines. Not everyone got a chance, I was one of the lucky first batches of recipients. Some of those who weren't lucky end up dying. Please do not insult me with your anti-vax rhetoric.

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 10:21:05 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Kicko :mastodon:

     @Kicko Unfortunately.

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     Kicko :mastodon: (kicko@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 10:21:07 JST Kicko :mastodon:

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     @liztai so at the end of the day no one knows what real anymore.

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 14:07:32 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Julie Webgirl
     • Melanie (they, she)

     @juliewebgirl @melanie all of us masked. No problem. In fact there's societal pressure to mask - the community largely enforced it themselves

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     Julie Webgirl (juliewebgirl@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 14:07:33 JST Julie Webgirl

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     • Melanie (they, she)

     @liztai
     What about #MaskUP & #N95?
     @melanie

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 14:08:09 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Melanie (they, she)

     @juliewebgirl @melanie PS I am still masking till this day - in crowded areas.

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 14:34:19 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Melanie (they, she)

     @juliewebgirl where is here? I am confused. I am in Malaysia btw. Yes it's more relaxed here now but I am talking about in the past. @melanie

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     Julie Webgirl (juliewebgirl@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 14:34:21 JST Julie Webgirl

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     • Melanie (they, she)

     @liztai

     Past tense? Nobody is masking now and there is no societal pressure to mask now. Yet here we are still in the pandemic with people getting Covid over and over again. Masking prevents infection and spread. Vaccines help keep you out of the hospital. More yelling about masking instead of vaccines would make more sense.
     @melanie

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 14:35:13 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Julie Webgirl
     • Melanie (they, she)

     @juliewebgirl @melanie https://hachyderm.io/@liztai/112651881175567553

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     Julie Webgirl (juliewebgirl@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 14:35:14 JST Julie Webgirl

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     • Melanie (they, she)

     @liztai
     I didn't see the original toot.
     @melanie

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 14:37:00 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Julie Webgirl
     • Melanie (they, she)

     @juliewebgirl @melanie for context while there's no yelling about masks and vaccines now, some of us are still masking in crowded places. I wish everyone was but mandates tend to generate protests and are hard to enforce even in communal Asia

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     Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle (lffontenelle@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 16:45:19 JST Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle

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     • María Arias de Reyna

     @delawen @liztai By the way, Hilda Bastien has been keeping up with clinical and preclinical evidence on covid vaccines since the beginning, so her blog is a good read on the subject:

     https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 16:45:19 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle
     • María Arias de Reyna

     @delawen Thanks for this! That's what I heard about Sinovac too. I am just grateful we got enough vaccines to survive the pandemic. It doesn't matter where it comes from, we will accept them. This aversion to vaccines due to country of origin is odd and sinophobic.

     @lffontenelle

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     Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle (lffontenelle@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 16:45:20 JST Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle

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     • María Arias de Reyna

     @delawen @liztai Medical doctor here. IDK how many vaccines were developed in Chinea, but we did receive Sinovac in Brazil, and it is by far the one with fewer adverse effects. (Over the years I took 2 doses of Sinovac, 2 different Moderna and 2 different Pfizer, or something like that.) It was developed using a well known mechanism which underlies a lot of classical vaccines for other diseases, including some you probably took. Its problem is being less effective then the RNA ones.

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     María Arias de Reyna (delawen@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 16:45:21 JST María Arias de Reyna

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     @liztai I can't know where the gossip came from. But it arrived to Spain too. People were relieved we were not getting Chinese vaccines because they were so bad you would die from the vaccine faster than from covid. It was obviously a plot to clean China's image after creating the virus.
     There was a second plot of China having indeed a real vaccine that were given to Chinese people but not the rest of the world. A way for China to conquer the world. West pharmaceutical companies saved the world.