Vaccine misinformation exploits the genuine abandonment of disabled families

Evidence

I can attest, though, that the vaccine misinformation industry is preying upon real suffering. Families of children with developmental disabilities live in the same world that we all do—the one that is very generous with diagnoses and awfully stingy with actual help. The one where talking about building palaces for poor children as a means of tearing down prison walls would reliably get you laughed out of any room where self-styled serious people gather. Caring for a child with severe disabilities can easily lead to bankruptcy, despite “good” health insurance. And even in places where the disability justice movement has won robust supports for school-age kids, many of those programs dry up as soon as children become young adults. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 708

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Mirror World thesis from earlier chapters — grievance metabolization requires real suffering to feed on, which is exactly the mechanism Klein describes here.