28 March 2026
Anti-vaxxers want to erase Long Covid and make associated conditions into a lawfare-ready vaccine-caused condition.
There’s a lot of money to be made if you can bring people into a cult, by preying upon a certain number of people who actually have Long Covid, but some portion of people will believe it was caused by a vaccine.
AXIOS - Effort to classify COVID vax injuries gains momentum - Maya Goldman - March 26, 2026 Medical authorities haven’t formally recognized post-vaccination syndrome — whose symptoms include fatigue, brain fog and insomnia — and have urged more research about its underpinnings. There also have been shifting estimates of the prevalence of heart inflammation and abnormalities months after getting the mRNA shots. Jake Scott, a clinical associate professor of infectious diseases at Stanford, wrote in an op-ed last week that a leaked committee report estimated that COVID-19 vaccine injuries affect anywhere between 1 in 33,000 people to 1 in 111 young and middle-aged persons. “A clinical entity whose prevalence cannot be estimated within three orders of magnitude is not ready for ICD-10 codification. It is ready for more research,” Scott wrote.
Some might criticize and react by saying, but some people do get vaccine side effects or even vaccine adverse effects. This is true and also very rare, and if it was as common as they say, their claims wouldn’t be all over the map like this. And the fact is that a lot of people have had covid, many multiple times, so unfortunately many get long covid to one degree or length of time or another. It’s uncomfortable to admit it in some social circles because “covid is over”, even though reasonable people report going through it regularly, some recovering, some struggling. (Recent examples are Physics Girl youtuber and the McMansion Hell blogger.) But a lot of people want to buy into the idea that people aren’t still getting covid, being sick for sometimes weeks or longer, and people still die of covid. Not to mention the other infectious disease threats growing specifically because of the anti-vax movement, such as with measles. If profiteers can convince these people that they can claim that it was caused by a vaccination, they’ll go along with that because it means they could more comfortably fit in their social circles with antivaxxers, maha, maga, covid denier, or covid minimizing people in their lives.
And then a certain number of oeioke will be willing to go through with lawsuit attempts, and make some people involved some money in the process.
The Axios piece reports that someone from React19, the anti-vax non-profit, organized a petition to push this. From what I’ve seen, React19 activists were involved in shifting Long Covid research to pivot to anti-vax research instead. It’s probably also attractive since there’s likely more money in it.
There’s a general propaganda campaign I’ve watched for years spread on social media and heard about spreading through support groups and forums, to surreptitiously sway people with Long Covid to believe they instead have vaccine injuries, by at first just identifying as someone with Long Covid, and then revealing that they supposedly got Long Covid from covid vaccines, which is not an accurate assertion because even if someone does get similar symptoms after vaccination, it would not be Long Covid, because Long Covid is a post-infection condition, and actually quite similar and overlapping with other post-infection conditions. But anti-vax beliefs are a fringe minority, and they’re desperate to get more people on board with anti-vax, and covid presented them the opportunity, or so antivaxxers seem to believe. How do they deal with people who were not vaccinated? Well there’s plenty of right-wing conspiracy fictions to cover that: they tell them that working alongside people who were vaccinated gave them vaccine injury from proximity to vaccinated people. This is the kind of dangerous conspiracy theory that has led to people getting divorced over the vaccine, led to violence over the vaccine, and led in one case to a delusional person bludgeoning his own father to death because he got vaccinated for covid. How do they deal with people who acquired Long Covid in 2020 before there were any vaccines? They marginalize those people, making them feel like they can’t speak up lest they be pushed out of a community they’re now reliant upon. These are high pressure sales techniques and literal cult tactics being used to manipulate people into anti-vax and also to push bogus treatments, of course, because that’s another profiteering avenue for the people financially motivated to manipulate vulnerable communities..
🗞️ In the news
Sickle Cell disease treatment hits medical breakthrough in Detroit By Ingrid Kelley Published March 18, 2026 8:52pm EDT Health FOX 2 Detroit In December 2025, Sanford underwent a Lyfgenia transfusion, in which the patient’s stem cells are harvested, and a gene is added, allowing the body to make hemoglobin that prevents red blood cells from becoming sickle-shaped. "We are hoping the new engineered stem cells will grow and take their place, and that happened," said Dr. Sureyya Savasan.
Small groups are more effective than larger groups when it comes to organizing anything and getting stuff accomplished.
I know there’s this pressure to scale with all sorts of incentives to have a big audience, but when it comes to actually getting something done, there’s nothing better than small groups with personal one on one connections and communication. Don’t get financial interests confused with power and influence, because once you realize the real relationship with these things, you understand why a lot of seemingly corporate projects that are often wrecking society are actively losing money.
