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| “ | COVID is just cold! | „ |
| ~ Masayuki Hiratsuka's election poster |
COVID denialism is an ideology generated by anti-vaxxers or by people who believe that COVID-19 either does not exist or is not as dangerous as experts say it is.
Most believers are victims of the recesstion caused by COVID-19 or paranoid people who over-believe rumors.
They believe that COVID-19 is a conspiracy theories (for example, "COVID is just cold", "COVID does not exist" and "COVID is a farce by government"), and are hated by various political groups and the majority of people. Also some people, like Unplug, are hostile to health care workers, and they sabotage health care works.
Although they are in a far-left position, they have received a lot of criticism from the far-left group. COVID denialism has also cropped up on the far-right, who also often utilize anti-Chinese racism as a part of COVID denialism, such as referring to COVID-19 as the "Chinese virus" or the "kung-flu".
Type of COVID denialism
Cyber-COVID denialism
Cyber-COVID denialism is COVID denialism in the Internet. Cyber-CCOVID denialism adopt trolling and Internet propaganda/publicity.
#Let's unplug
#let's unplug, abbreviated as Unplug is movement by anti-vaxxers derived from cyber-COVID denialism in Japan. The name comes from unplugging the fridge taht stores the vaccine, and the outbreak of this movement has led to cases in various hospitals where the fridge that stores the vaccine is unplugged. These cases were terrorism incidents that resulted in the disposal of more than 100 vaccines. The offender has not yet been arrested.
People
- Donald Trump (for a while)
- Hotoka Sugita
- Masayuki Hiratsuka
- Reppu1019
- satton(suzuki)
- Teruna Saegusa
- THE dondengaeshi
- Yosuke Tsukaguchi
- Vernon Coleman