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   Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (luckytran@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Friday, 09-May-2025 04:59:57 JST Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:

   Reminder that wellness grifters like Trump’s new Surgeon General Casey Means spread misinformation about vaccines and health because it is extremely profitable for them to do so.

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     Nicole Parsons (npars01@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 09-May-2025 09:19:48 JST Nicole Parsons

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     Over 1.7 million Americans died of covid thanks to lies funded by oligarchs.
     https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-excess-deaths-covid

     https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/5-years-true-counts-covid-19-deaths-remain-elusive-and-research-hobbled-lack-data

     https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2024/new-analysis-reveals-many-excess-deaths-attributed-to-natural-causes-are-actually-uncounted-covid-19-deaths/

     https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00104-8

     It made the richest phenomenally more wealthy, as they got 4/5 of all aid money. They deliberately prolonged the pandemic with disinformation.

     https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/business/coronavirus-bailout-spending/

     https://www.propublica.org/article/the-bailout-is-working-for-the-rich

     https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/03/03/350-billion-covid-bailout-to-states-cities-and-counties--here-are-the-details/

     https://time.com/5845116/coronavirus-bailout-rich-richer/

     https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/biggest-fraud-generation-looting-covid-relief-program-known-ppp-n1279664

     https://jacobin.com/2021/06/pandemic-covid-billionaire-increase-wealth-central-banks-quantitative-easing-monetary-policy

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     Nicole Parsons (npars01@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 09-May-2025 09:19:49 JST Nicole Parsons

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     Covid disinformation is funded by billionaires for partisan gain as well.

     It wasn't just Russia & China weaponizing Facebook & Twitter to prolong a profitable pandemic.
     https://www.wired.com/story/donald-trump-robert-f-kennedy-jr-rfk-rally-go-wild-on-health-antivax/

     https://www.democracynow.org/2021/12/23/koch_hijacked_war_on_covid

     Trump, as always, blew up the national debt to give most of the covid relief bailout to the 1%.

     https://jacobin.com/2021/12/right-wing-think-tanks-herd-immunity-death

     https://www.desmog.com/covideniers-anti-science-covid-19-denial-overlaps-climate-denial/

     https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2024/10/07/a-koch-funded-lawfare-group-is-suing-the-biden-admin-to-protect-vaccine-skepticism/

     https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2022/12/21/koch-funded-litigation-group-fights-to-protect-covid-misinformation/

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