Four major nonprofits that rose to prominence during the coronavirus pandemic by capitalizing on the spread of medical misinformation collectively gained more than $118 million between 2020 and 2022, enabling the organizations to deepen their influence in statehouses, courtrooms and communities across the country, a Washington Post analysis of tax records shows.
Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine group founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., received $23.5 million in contributions, grants and other revenue in 2022 alone — eight times what it collected the year before the pandemic began — allowing it to expand its state-based lobbying operations to cover half the country. Another influential anti-vaccine group, Informed Consent Action Network, nearly quadrupled its revenue during that time to about $13.4 million in 2022, giving it the resources to finance lawsuits seeking to roll back vaccine requirements as Americans’ faith in vaccines drops.
Two other groups, Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance and America’s Frontline Doctors, went from receiving $1 million combined when they formed in 2020 to collecting more than $21 million combined in 2022, according to the latest tax filings available for the groups.
Went to a friend’s big 50th birthday party at a Detroit bar last weekend. Figured it was finally my time for COVID. Did no masking anywhere; plenty of drinking and loud close talking. About 60 people at the party. Have been coughing a lot in the last day, feeling a bit under the weather.
Finally took a 2 year old COVID test. Results: no COVID. Guess I caught some other bug.
Flu always kicks my ass and nearly put me in the hospital in 2018. Before COVID even started I was doing hand sanitizer and stuff because I didn’t want to get the flu again. The problem for most people with treating COVID like the flu is, to them, that means basically ignore it.
Evidence for 130 of the jabs was collected by the public prosecutor of the city of Magdeburg, who opened an investigation with the allegation of fraud, but no criminal charges were brought.
“We learned about his case via newspaper articles,” Dr Kilian Schober, from the university’s microbiology department, said.
“We then contacted him and invited him to undergo various tests in Erlangen. He was very interested in doing so.”
The man provided fresh blood and saliva samples.
The researchers also tested some frozen blood samples of his that had been stored in recent years.
Dr Schober said: "We were able to take blood samples ourselves when the man received a further vaccination during the study at his own insistence.
“We were able to use these samples to determine exactly how the immune system reacts to the vaccination.”
Dr Schober worried hyper-stimulating the immune system with repeated doses might have fatigued certain cells.
But the researchers found no evidence of this in the 62-year-old.
And there was no sign that he had ever been infected with Covid.
I’ve read of people who were in the 20-30 range because there was a time that small gifts were being offered if you got vaxxed, so people decided to bonus whore vaccine promos. But if you asked me what is the most anyone has ever gotten vaxxed, I definitely would have guessed under 200.
