Anti-vax influencers reframed vaccination as selfish endangerment of the vulnerable

Evidence

Take the case of a prominent fitness trainer and anti-vax influencer in Toronto who calls herself “Glowing Mama.” The trainer became obsessed with the vaccine shedding theory, claiming she was “bleeding between [her] period” because people around her had been vaccinated. In a video that went viral for all the wrong reasons, Glowing Mama brought herself to tears as she raged about how her daughter’s grandparents, who had been vaccinated, wanted to hold their granddaughter, clearly indifferent to the risks they posed to both the child and to her. “They are sterilizing an entire generation of people,” she said between sobs. She could not believe the selfishness of these older people, who had “one foot in the grave”—selfish for getting vaccinated and still expecting to have a loving relationship with their granddaughter. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 104

Categorization

• XREF: Concrete early instance of the diagonalism convergence Klein maps in later chapters — wellness/fitness culture meeting anti-vax conspiracy. — connects to: Anti-vaxxers exploit tight-knit migrant cliques vulnerable to conformity — Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age: How False…, 485; the MOC “The Viral Refinery: How Preexisting Fringe Fears Get Smelted Into Mainstream Reality”