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A new 'Vaccination Demand Observatory' is using surveillance, bots, and 'behavior change' mass marketing schemes to press reluctant people into getting the shots
Friday, May 7, 2021
By Celeste McGovern | May 7, 2021
A new 'Vaccination Demand Observatory' is using surveillance, bots, and 'behavior change' mass marketing schemes to press reluctant people into getting the shots
Friday, May 7, 2021
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By Celeste McGovern | May 7, 2021
(LifeSiteNews) – The U.S. is awash in a surplus of coronavirus vaccines as there has been a sudden in drop in demand for them; most Americans who want the shots have had them. Now an army of Big Biotech's agencies set up to address "vaccine hesitancy" are turning up their mass marketing to "create demand" using surveillance, rapid data analysis, media control, and host of behavior control strategies they've outlined in their playbooks.
Demand plummets
About 40% of the total adult population has been fully vaccinated, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Uptake plummeted 25% after a peak in mid-April, and 56.4% of adults have had at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine.
But five million people – about eight per cent of those who took a first dose of the shot – failed to show up for their second dose appointments, according to the CDC.
As a result, excess vaccine stock has been piling up across the country. Chairs sat empty at a Philadelphia mass vaccination site where 4,000 unused doses of vaccines were due to expire. A million doses, representing one out of every four sent to Louisiana by the federal government, were sitting on shelves. One Wyoming county asked the state to stop shipping vaccines because it had a surplus of 20,000 shots; North Carolina closed its vaccination clinics for lack of demand.
"For the first time ever, we've had appointments at many vaccination sites that have not been filled," said Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer during a news briefing last Thursday.
"There [are] a lot of people around here who … I don't think they want to take the vaccine," chuckled Ralph Merrill, an engineer who sits on an Alabama county board.
Vaccine vs. virus fear
Numerous mainstream media fretted about "vaccine hesitancy," blaming it on COVID-19 denialism, "conspiracy theories," and QAnon followers, Trump supporters, and minority mistrust of the government with its brutal history of racist eugenics. No one mentioned that some people just don't think the vaccine works. The mainstream media simply ignored Yale Professor of Epidemiology Harvey Risch, for example, who revealed that the majority of people now coming down with COVID-19 have been vaccinated against the virus.
Nor did they mention the leading reason for vaccine refusal cited by 45% of those in a March poll conducted by the Delphi Group for Facebook researchers, which is fear of side-effects, however. With reported adverse events at 118,746 total in the U.S. alone, including 3,410 deaths and 1,595 permanent disabilities, it is a legitimate deterrent. So is the abrupt halt of AstraZeneca's vaccine for its high rate of blood clots, and the pause of Johnson & Johnson's vaccine.
Nevertheless, President Joe Biden said Tuesday that now that the bulk of the vaccinated are seniors – 85% of whom have gotten at least their first vaccine dose – he wants 70% of all Americans to get their first dose by July 4. He specifically pitched the jab to youths and announced his administration would be sending the vaccines to pediatricians to dole out over the coming weeks.
"Getting vaccinated not only protects you but reduces risk of giving the virus to somebody else," Biden said, employing a classic line of "social marketing" script from a global industry of behavior change experts compelling people to take the shot.
Vaccination Demand Observatory
"[P]ublic health experts know that the last inch – getting the vaccine from vial to arm – can be the hardest," according to the Vaccination Demand Observatory.
Launched last week, the Observatory runs a "beta dashboard" of data and resources "intended for select global public health professionals."
The Observatory was established by a group called the Public Good Projects (PGP) which "designs and implements large-scale behavior change programs for the public good," UNICEF – which has received $86.6 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation since 2020 – and the Gates-subsidized Yale Institute for Global Health.
PGP was founded by Joe Smyser, a public health academic who trained at the CDC and has partnered with Google and Facebook. Its board members include executives from Merck pharmaceuticals, Pepsi, Levi-Strauss, the Advertising Council, Sesame Street, Campbell's, and TikTok.
PGP’s website says that through "media monitoring and bots, grassroots social media organizing, or thought leadership, we deploy our considerable resources and connections to communication for change."
Bots – or internet robots, also known as crawlers – can scan content on webpages all over the internet and create automated conversations and comments.
Please go to Lite Site to read more.
Big Pharma spends nearly 68% of its $30 billion annual ad dollars to persuade doctors and others to prescribe their drugs to patients. Could this explain why more doctors prescribe remdesivir instead of hydroxychloroquine?About 40% of the total adult population has been fully vaccinated, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Uptake plummeted 25% after a peak in mid-April, and 56.4% of adults have had at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine.
But five million people – about eight per cent of those who took a first dose of the shot – failed to show up for their second dose appointments, according to the CDC.
As a result, excess vaccine stock has been piling up across the country. Chairs sat empty at a Philadelphia mass vaccination site where 4,000 unused doses of vaccines were due to expire. A million doses, representing one out of every four sent to Louisiana by the federal government, were sitting on shelves. One Wyoming county asked the state to stop shipping vaccines because it had a surplus of 20,000 shots; North Carolina closed its vaccination clinics for lack of demand.
"For the first time ever, we've had appointments at many vaccination sites that have not been filled," said Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer during a news briefing last Thursday.
"There [are] a lot of people around here who … I don't think they want to take the vaccine," chuckled Ralph Merrill, an engineer who sits on an Alabama county board.
Vaccine vs. virus fear
Numerous mainstream media fretted about "vaccine hesitancy," blaming it on COVID-19 denialism, "conspiracy theories," and QAnon followers, Trump supporters, and minority mistrust of the government with its brutal history of racist eugenics. No one mentioned that some people just don't think the vaccine works. The mainstream media simply ignored Yale Professor of Epidemiology Harvey Risch, for example, who revealed that the majority of people now coming down with COVID-19 have been vaccinated against the virus.
Nor did they mention the leading reason for vaccine refusal cited by 45% of those in a March poll conducted by the Delphi Group for Facebook researchers, which is fear of side-effects, however. With reported adverse events at 118,746 total in the U.S. alone, including 3,410 deaths and 1,595 permanent disabilities, it is a legitimate deterrent. So is the abrupt halt of AstraZeneca's vaccine for its high rate of blood clots, and the pause of Johnson & Johnson's vaccine.
The leading reason for vaccine refusal cited by 45% of those in a March poll conducted by the Delphi Group for Facebook researchers is fear of side-effects. With reported adverse events at 118,746 total in the U.S. alone, including 3,410 deaths and 1,595 permanent disabilities, it is a legitimate deterrent.Many people simply fear the novel vaccine more than the novel virus which, according to the CDC, has an overall 99.4% survival rate for those aged 50-65 who get the infection. The odds go up as people get older but decrease if people are younger. For those under 18, the coronavirus fatality rate estimated by the CDC is 0.00002, which translates into a 99.98% COVID survival rate. In fact, for those under 18, the lifetime odds of being struck by lightning are higher than the odds of dying of the virus.
"Getting vaccinated not only protects you but reduces risk of giving the virus to somebody else," Biden said, employing a classic line of "social marketing" script from a global industry of behavior change experts compelling people to take the shot.
Vaccination Demand Observatory
"[P]ublic health experts know that the last inch – getting the vaccine from vial to arm – can be the hardest," according to the Vaccination Demand Observatory.
Launched last week, the Observatory runs a "beta dashboard" of data and resources "intended for select global public health professionals."
The Observatory was established by a group called the Public Good Projects (PGP) which "designs and implements large-scale behavior change programs for the public good," UNICEF – which has received $86.6 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation since 2020 – and the Gates-subsidized Yale Institute for Global Health.
PGP was founded by Joe Smyser, a public health academic who trained at the CDC and has partnered with Google and Facebook. Its board members include executives from Merck pharmaceuticals, Pepsi, Levi-Strauss, the Advertising Council, Sesame Street, Campbell's, and TikTok.
PGP’s website says that through "media monitoring and bots, grassroots social media organizing, or thought leadership, we deploy our considerable resources and connections to communication for change."
Bots – or internet robots, also known as crawlers – can scan content on webpages all over the internet and create automated conversations and comments.
Please go to Lite Site to read more.
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Then the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has financial connections to the UK-based BBC that is an advertising source for UK-based pharmaceutical firms like AstraZeneca.
BBC Media Action
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More:
Facebook has a prescription: More pharmaceutical ads
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