Here we are going to describe the different types of Vaccine Zealots. To be clear, we’re not talking here about people who simply vaccinate, we’re specifically referring to people who engage in any kind of negative behaviour towards people who are concerned about vaccine safety and either using shaming techniques, try to impose their beliefs on others or agree with eroding human rights.
The Predator
This type of Zealot is vindictive and seeks to punish others for their medical choices. This includes publicly shaming people for their medical choices or actively lobbying for punishing children via unethical policies like No Jab No Play.
Revengers include people that may have been affected by diseases which they claim the vaccines prevent. They often overstate the effectiveness of such vaccines and place all blame on people who have chosen not to vaccinate.
Some Revengers even have been observed to have understood the basic scientific concepts, but choose to ignore any scientific evidence which contradicts their diatribe.
Notable Predators: Catherine Hughes, Toni McCaffery
The Birdbrain
These Zealots are distinct from Revengers due to their overall lack of knowledge about vaccines. These Zealots would be unable to list the vaccines that are even available, and make references to diseases like the plague (for which no vaccine exists), tuberculosis (which is not routinely given in developed countries) and smallpox for which is no longer given except for those who still work on the smallpox virus in laboratories.
They also make incorrect references to “eradicated diseases coming back” and that there is “more aluminium in breastmilk than the amount contained in vaccines.”
See our FUQS section for answers to these commonly proclaimed untruths.
The Birdbrains are mainly found on social media and target the comments sections of public news items. They may also be found sometimes amongst your family and friendship circles.
Vaxx Red Neck
Vaxx Red Necks are similar to the Birdbrains, but with a notable difference. Vaxx Red Neck’s include references to violence against those with vaccine safety concerns. They also refer to “anti-vaxxers” as “baby killers” and “child abusers, and they tell these parents that they should be jailed or have their kids taken away from them.
The Vaxx Red Necks are mainly found on social media and target the comments sections of public news items.
Medical Pedestal
The Medical Pedestal is those Zealots who work in the Medical Profession (whether they have medical expertise in vaccination or not) and broadcast the illusion that all doctors and medical professionals must be respected and trusted because of the “years” of study they have supposedly done.
Never mind that our education system is currently in tatters, the ranking of expertise is allegedly directly proportional to the number of years of study, and there’s no possibility that they could make any mistakes. Research in postgraduate degrees typically involves collecting a bunch of links to studies, skim reading to see if the current link proposes something along the lines of what you want to say, then including said link in your research. Those on the Medical Pedestal are immune to criticism, and it doesn’t matter if the said links don’t actually say what they thought it said.
The final relevant fact about those on the Medical Pedestal is that anything can be said in the media and it’s true. There’s no obligation to actually provide evidence for the claims. Most of the time the Medical Pedestallers will keep within safe boundaries of mistruths and let the media do the rest of the dirty work, but sometimes they do slip up, such as when Terry Nolan made false claims that the Meningococcal B vaccine has been proven to work.
Notable Medical Pedestallers: Helen Marshall, Peter McIntyre
Pilgrim
The Pilgrim’s worship those on the Medical Pedestal. This is very much a faith based belief and not based on evidence. Unlike the Predators, Birdbrains or the Vaxx Red Necks, Pilgrim’s don’t actually want to force vaccination onto others, but instead they just believe that others are stupid for not holding the same faith based beliefs of the Medical Pedestallers.
The Pilgrim could be confused with most people who choose to vaccinate, however there is a small difference. Pilgrim’s are specifically judgemental of other people’s choices, and while they do not want to push vaccination on to others, they are critical of their choices and agree with coercive Government legislation to solve this problem, while simultaneously feeling uncomfortable about the unethical consequences of such legislation.
For the Pilgrim, the Medical Pedestallers can never be wrong and never make a mistake. It doesn’t even matter if the Medical Pedestaller has spoken about vaccine safety and efficacy concerns in professional conferences and presentations, this is just a mere inconvenience to be ignored. The Pilgrim’s practice cognitive dissonance at the highest level, and are very adept at balancing excuses to explain away contradictory information.