Anti-vaccine YouTube communities treated vaccine passes as apocalyptic religious signs

Evidence

I went back and looked at the nearly one thousand comments under Wolf’s “slavery forever” YouTube post, bracing for the usual misogynist bile for which the platform is notorious. Jarringly, the comments were nearly universally glowing, expressing adoration for this “warrior” and her “courage” to speak the truth. Many quoted scripture and declared the vaccines, as well as the passports, “the mark of the beast.” — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 262

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• XREF: Parallels Klein’s observation elsewhere about how religious apocalypticism converges with secular conspiracy — another diagonalist convergence. — connects to: the MOC “The Viral Refinery: How Preexisting Fringe Fears Get Smelted Into Mainstream Reality”
• SHARE: Worth sending to someone studying online vaccine discourse or religious framing of public health.