This is disinformation done as a cover story to discredit the anti-vax contingent. This strategy is used frequently in all arenas where there are conflicting opinions and warring schools of thought. There will often be a "conspiracy theory," so-called, proposing a wildly improbable scenario, ostensibly with credible witnesses and supporting data, and this will gain some traction and be widely repeated. Its purpose is not to win people over to the faulty thinking it represents, but to backfire on those who believe the story and support it and spread it to others. When people have been burned enough by following such untruths, out of understandable concern, they will be reluctant, at some point, to believe anything that is unconventional. This is the problem of crying wolf too many times, that eventually wolves at the door will not even cause an alarm because no one will listen.
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