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 ====== Propaganda Campaign Against Natural Immunity ======
+==== Mother Jones ====
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+Anti-Vaxxers Have a Dangerous Theory Called “Natural Immunity.” Now It’s Going Mainstream
+“Your body is an amazing being—it knows how to take care of itself.”
+by Kiera Butler - Senior Editor (tragic MoJo was once fierce muckraking)
+But the experts I talked to weren’t at all surprised to see these discredited ideas making the rounds; they’ve seen them before in the anti-vaccination and extreme [[:holistic medicine]] communities. This is the coronavirus edition of their pervasive belief in “natural immunity.” [[:Rupali Limaye]], a [[:Johns Hopkins]] epidemiologist who has studied the movement against mandatory vaccines, told me, “We have heard from those that are concerned about vaccines the argument that they prefer to allow their immune system to be naturally exposed to a specific pathogen to gain immunity,” she wrote to me in an email. “It’s a spinoff of previous theories we’ve seen,” concurred Omer, who has written extensively about anti-vaccination groups. “This is all the usual stuff.”
+Indeed,** anti-vaccination groups on Facebook have referenced the idea constantly in recent posts. One widely shared meme lists, “Things that suppress our immune systems: Masks, gloves, no sun, fear, vaccines, washing hands with synthetic soaps.”** In response to an article about the decline in childhood vaccination rates as a result of [[:coronavirus]], one member of the group [[:Michigan for Vaccine Choice]] commented, “God, I would love for my kids to catch [[:chicken pox]], my body could use a little exposure to keep the shingles away lol plus you know them developing actual immunity would be nice.” In recent weeks, in response to calls for social distancing, several of the groups posted a 2016 [[:New York Post]] article titled, “We Need to Stop Sanitizing Everything and Let Bacteria Back Into Our Lives.”
+Meanwhile, alternative medicine groups promote the idea that eating the right foods or taking certain [[:vitamins]] and supplements will strengthen the immune system so that it can successfully fight off coronavirus. “Like any virus, coronavirus is no match for someone with a strong immune system,” writes Sally Fallon Morell on a blog affiliated with the holistic nutrition group the [[:Weston A. Price Foundation]]. Coconut oil, bone broth, and raw milk are among the foods she recommends to bolster the immune system against coronavirus. Just to be clear: **This idea is patently false; humanity has never seen the virus before, therefore our immune systems have no natural defenses against it**. ((https://web.archive.org/web/20200513012001/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/05/anti-vaxxers-have-a-dangerous-theory-called-natural-immunity-now-its-going-mainstream/))
+{{ :covid-19_pandemic:propaganda:kiera_butler_ativax_natural_immunity_tweet.png?600 |}}
+((https://web.archive.org/web/20200513075917/https://twitter.com/kieraevebutler/status/1260267205071077383))
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 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/just-tested-positive-covid-s-rcna9540