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Good.
Have to agree there.
Wouldn't have to happen if the USA didn't give out fake hepatitis vaccines, ruining trust of vaccinations in the whole area.
The vaccines were real, though done with ulterior motives in mind
I had to look this up; this article may be useful for other lemmers: https://www.vox.com/first-person/22256595/vaccine-covid-pakistan-cia-program
The tldr:
In the early 2010s, the CIA ran a fake vaccination program in Abbottabad, offering free Hepatitis B vaccines to children in an attempt to collect DNA evidence linking Osama bin Laden to the compound where he was suspected of residing. It is unclear how samples were to be collected or how they would lead to bin Laden, but when news of this scheme broke, it added proof to existing conspiracy theories about vaccinations. As a consequence, many local leaders began urging people not to vaccinate their kids, various districts banned vaccination teams, and the Taliban issued a fatwa against vaccination programs. To this day, local leaders rail against vaccines as Western spying programs.
The CIA again.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The effort costs nearly $1 billion a year and is largely funded by donor countries and private organizations including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
In January, roughly 62,000 parents, mostly in Pakistan’s Sindh province, refused polio vaccinations for their children, prompting authorities there to propose the new law with penalties.
Officials said their primary aim was to boost polio immunization rates, though diseases including measles, pneumonia and pertussis are also in the legislation.
Some “fringe elements” believe in a false conspiracy theory — that the vaccines are part of a plot by Western outsiders to sterilize people, Bibi acknowledged.
In some parts of Sindh province, the refusal rate for the polio vaccine is as high as 15%, according to a government official who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, said it would be extremely challenging to rebuild trust with punitive measures.
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Some “fringe elements” believe in a false conspiracy theory — that the vaccines are part of a plot by Western outsiders to sterilize people, Bibi acknowledged.
It's always some stupid madlib like "the vaccine is a plot by [opposing group] to [do something outlandish]". Why is that?
"The vaccine is a plot by McDonald's to make Burger King food taste bad"
Offering prison as an alternative is sure to assuage them and not reinforce their opinion.
this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2023
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