[D66] Mikovits komt weer langs... (Wuhan Coronavirus 2019-nCoV #326)

[Dr. Marc-Alexander Fluks]

Bron:   Jezebel
Datum:  23 september 2020
Auteur: Esther Wang
URL:    
https://jezebel.com/eat-pray-conspiracy-how-the-wellness-world-embraced-1845066668


Eat, pray, conspiracy: How the wellness world embraced QAnon
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The first sign for Hala Khouri that something dangerous, if not exactly 
new, was spreading in her world of health practitioners was Plandemic, a 
viral video filled with misinformation and conspiracy theories about the 
spread of covid-19. Friends and acquaintances, all people that Khouri, a 
yoga instructor and founder of the activist collective Off the Mat Into 
the World, described as fellow spiritual travelers, shared the viral 
26-minute video with her and urged her to watch. They believed that 
Plandemic was full of revealing truths.

The slickly produced, sombre-toned 'documentary,' is largely a lengthy 
interview with the discredited scientist and medical conspiracist Dr. 
Judy Mikovits, who's portrayed as a stern-faced Cassandra. '[I]f we 
don't stop this now, we can not only forget our republic and our 
freedom, we can forget our humanity because we'll be killed by this 
agenda,' Mikovits warns at the beginning.

But Khouri found it eye-opening for a different reason. She was alarmed 
by its wildly outlandish claims, including that masks 'activate' the 
novel coronavirus and that any future covid-19 vaccine will 'kill 
millions.' When she questioned the documentary in comments on Facebook, 
Khouri said that she got 'slammed.'

'Do your research,' she recalled people telling her. 'You don't know 
what you're talking about. You're afraid to see the truth.'

She shared articles from the fact-checking website Snopes.com to push 
back and was told sneeringly that the site was run by the government and 
not to be trusted. 'That's when it became very real to me,' she told 
Jezebel. In a moment, she realized that a disturbingly large number of 
people in the loosely defined health and wellness community, one whose 
members have already proven themselves over the years to be remarkably 
susceptible to unverified and refuted claims on everything from vaccines 
to toxins to supplements, were quickly being radicalized online.

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