{"id":64361,"date":"2021-05-09T10:49:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T14:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=64361"},"modified":"2021-05-09T10:49:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T14:49:33","slug":"the-overwhelming-psychological-operation-to-compel-and-coerce-americans-to-get-the-dangerous-covid-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=64361","title":{"rendered":"The Overwhelming Psychological Operation to Compel and Coerce Americans to Get the Dangerous Covid Shots"},"content":{"rendered":"

An army of Big Biotech companies is using psych tactics to \u2018create vaccine demand\u2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n

A new \u2018Vaccination Demand Observatory\u2019 is using surveillance, bots, and \u2018behavior change\u2019 mass marketing schemes to press reluctant people into getting the shots<\/em><\/h3>\n

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By Celeste McGovern<\/p>\n

ANALYSIS<\/strong><\/h4>\n

May 7, 2021 (LifeSiteNews<\/a>) \u2013 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\u2019s agencies set up to address \u201cvaccine hesitancy\u201d are turning up their mass marketing to \u201ccreate demand\u201d using surveillance, rapid data analysis, media control, and host of behavior control strategies they\u2019ve outlined in their playbooks.<\/p>\n

Demand plummets<\/strong><\/h4>\n

About 40% of the total adult population has been fully vaccinated,\u00a0according to data<\/a>\u00a0from 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.<\/p>\n

But five million people \u2013 about eight per cent of those who took a first dose of the shot \u2013\u00a0failed to show<\/a>\u00a0up for their second dose appointments, according to the CDC.<\/p>\n

As a result, excess vaccine stock\u00a0has been piling up across the country. Chairs sat empty at a Philadelphia mass vaccination site where\u00a04,000 unused doses<\/a>\u00a0of vaccines were due to expire. A\u00a0million doses<\/a>, 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\u00a0surplus of 20,000 shots<\/a>; North Carolina\u00a0closed its vaccination clinics<\/a>\u00a0for lack of demand.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the first time ever, we\u2019ve had appointments at many vaccination sites that have not been filled,\u201d said Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer during a\u00a0news briefing<\/a>\u00a0last Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere [are] a lot of people around here who \u2026 I don’t think they want to take the vaccine,\u201d\u00a0chuckled<\/a>\u00a0Ralph Merrill, an engineer who sits on an Alabama county board.<\/p>\n

Vaccine vs. virus fear<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Numerous mainstream media fretted about \u201cvaccine hesitancy,\u201d blaming it on\u00a0COVID-19 denialism<\/a>, \u201cconspiracy theories,\u201d and QAnon followers,\u00a0Trump supporters<\/a>, and minority mistrust of the government with its brutal history of racist\u00a0eugenics<\/a>. No one mentioned that some people just don\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n

Nor did they mention the leading reason for vaccine refusal cited by 45% of those in a\u00a0March poll<\/a>\u00a0conducted by the Delphi Group for Facebook researchers, which is fear of side-effects, however. With\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0adverse 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\u2019s vaccine for its high rate of\u00a0blood clots<\/a>, and the\u00a0pause of Johnson & Johnson\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0vaccine.<\/p>\n

The leading reason for vaccine refusal cited by 45% of those in a\u00a0March poll\u00a0conducted by the Delphi Group for Facebook researchers\u00a0is fear of side-effects. With\u00a0reported\u00a0adverse events at 118,746 total in the U.S. alone, including 3,410 deaths and 1,595 permanent disabilities, it is a legitimate deterrent.<\/p>\n

Many people simply fear the novel vaccine more than the novel virus which,\u00a0according to the CDC<\/a>, 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\u00a0struck by lightning<\/a>\u00a0are higher than the odds of dying of the virus.<\/p>\n

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Nevertheless, President Joe Biden said Tuesday that now that the bulk of the vaccinated are seniors\u00a0 \u2013 85% of whom have gotten at least their first vaccine dose \u2013 he wants\u00a070% of all Americans<\/a>\u00a0to 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cGetting vaccinated not only protects you but reduces risk of giving the virus to somebody else,\u201d Biden said, employing a classic line of \u201csocial marketing\u201d script from a global industry of behavior change experts compelling people to take the shot.<\/p>\n

Vaccination Demand Observatory<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u201c[P]ublic health experts know that the last inch \u2013 getting the vaccine from vial to arm \u2013 can be the hardest,\u201d according to the\u00a0Vaccination Demand Observatory<\/a><\/p>\n

Launched\u00a0last week<\/a>, the Observatory runs a \u201cbeta dashboard\u201d of data and resources \u201cintended for select global public health professionals.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Observatory was established by a group called the\u00a0Public Good Projects<\/a>\u00a0(PGP) which \u201cdesigns and implements large-scale behavior change programs for the public good,\u201d\u00a0UNICEF<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 which has received $86.6 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation since 2020 \u2013 and the Gates-subsidized\u00a0Yale Institute for Global Health<\/a>. .<\/p>\n

PGP was founded by\u00a0Joe Smyser<\/a>, 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\u2019s, and TikTok.<\/p>\n

PGP\u2019s website says that through \u201cmedia monitoring and bots, grassroots social media organizing, or thought leadership, we deploy our considerable resources and connections to communication for change.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bots \u2013 or internet robots, also known as crawlers \u2013 can scan content on webpages all over the internet and create automated conversations and comments.<\/p>\n

\u201cPGP is monitoring coronavirus-related media conversations 24\/7 to provide organizations with real-time public health expertise and messaging guidance.\u201d<\/p>\n

The supposed danger of the disease needs to be emphasized, because\u00a0\u2018If people perceive that they are at low risk of contracting COVID-19, or that the consequences of becoming infected will not be severe, they will be less willing to get vaccinated.\u2019<\/p>\n

The group has promoted vaccines before. It developed the\u00a0#StopFlu campaign<\/a>, recruiting 120 \u201c\u2018micro\u2019 social media influencers\u201d in the \u201cAfrican American and Latinx communities across eight states\u201d and giving them prompts to sell their audiences the ideas that flu is a serious problem and that healthy people need flu shots.<\/p>\n

PGP\u2019s\u00a0Observatory<\/a>\u00a0says it aims to \u201cmitigate\u2026mistrust on all vaccines.\u201d Awash in Brave New World speak, the program\u2019s \u201cthree pillars\u201d are \u201csocial listening analytics,\u201d a training program, and a \u201cVaccine Acceptance Interventions Lab\u201d (VAIL) to \u201cdraw upon behavioral and social research and insights from social listening\u201d and to develop “inoculation messages to vaccinate people against vaccine misinformation.\u201d These would be \u201crapid field tested for tone, format and behavior change impact before being implemented.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) created a new public health field called \u201cinfodemiology\u201d<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 the \u201cscience of managing infodemics.\u201d PGP and UNICEF are leading the \u201cField Infodemiologist Training Program (FITP)\u201d based in UNICEF country offices, government offices, and offices of other \u201cmultilateral partners\u201d to train \u201cfield infodemic managers\u201d to conduct \u201cpublic health surveillance for misinformation\u201d and provide \u201ccommunity support in \u201cmisinformation outbreaks.<\/p>\n

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Big Biotech\u2019s global network<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Among the huge network of organizations and programs involved in the vast mass marketing of vaccine demand \u2013 besides the WHO, CDC, UNICEF, PGP, and Yale \u2013 key orchestrators include:<\/p>\n