How the antivaxxing Wellness Industry and Pyramid Schemes (Multi-level-Marking, or MLM) are getting rich from this pandemic

I will need to spend some time reading that article and this thread. But I just want to point out, in case the article doesn’t, that all roads lead back to religion. In this case it’s Mormonism. Look at where these fucking things are based. It’s all Utah. I would be willing to bet that there’s a secret snicker over all the anti-Mormon Baptists that they bilk with this massive grift. Utah rakes in cash with MLMs and direct sales. It’s like their biggest industry or something. It should all be outlawed. Every bit of it.

In the U.S. "red" states (e.g. FL) there are still F-Biden and Trump 45 flags and signs , but they're getting tattered and faded (like their owners). It's now just old yard signs that people forgot to take down or maybe they are sickened or died from COVID since they are also antimasker-antivaxxer-COVID-deniers. The Trumpeters are starting to STFU--there are still a few Trump whores walking around and screaming Trump won, but nobody's listening to them anymore. Hopefully, since most of them are old anyway, they'll just die off. 800 have been indicted, arrested and many incarcerated after participating the Jan. 6 attempted coup and that has helped to stifle them a bit. It'll probably take a decade but hopefully after Trump dies from too many cheeseburgers, they will just go silent, too.

I'm not sure if this is OT, but I hope not. My small English town is known to be a 'spiritual' place (and IMHO full of grifters). Its ethos is New Age/Pagan rather than Christian, and the New Age/Wellness types are clearly attracted to CT and AV.

Last year I became aware that some people in town were passionate Trump supporters. If you don't live in, or have personal knowledge of a small rural place like this, it's hard to imagine quite how weird that is - firstly, Trump is a figure of ridicule throughout the UK, and secondly, it's as if these people all got up and declared themselves passionate followers of the Prime Minister of Lithuania, whose views are probably as much in accord with theirs as Rump's are. Does Trump love hippies? Thought not.

Now we have two houses in town flying the Russian flag - one very provocatively, one less so (round the side of the building, not right out front). Both houses are plastered with CT/AV stuff inside the windows or at the entrance. WTAF? Where are they making this fresh crazy link that if you're AV you must also love Putin? Is this something you are also seeing much of in the USA? I say 'much of' because I know it's happening there - I've had to drop an American Fb friend for slavish praise of Putin.

The Disinformation Dozen: Why platforms must act on twelve leading online anti-vaxxers

​Just twelve anti-vaxxers are responsible for almost two-thirds of anti-vaccine content circulating on social media platforms. This new analysis of content posted or shared to social media over 812,000 times between February and March uncovers how a tiny group of determined anti-vaxxers is responsible for a tidal wave of disinformation - and shows how platforms can fix it by enforcing their standards.