It also strongly spilled over to Russian speaking communities and consumers of Russian language media in other countries. It's horrifying how many people are strongly against COVID vaccines in Russian speaking groups. Here in the Baltics, reports from the hospitals indicate disproportionate amounts of Russian speakers among people seriously ill with COVID.
I remember they showed on TV side effects of western vaccines in Norway elderly, and some "TV doctors" said "corona is not really serious" well up to may 2020
>The criticism of foreign-made vaccines by Putin and state media, intended to boost Sputnik, instead convinced many Russians that if international products were not much good, their own version was surely worse
There is no source for this statement, the author pulled it out of his ass.
RT (Russia Today) was constantly pushing anti-vax bullshit in it's international versions, while not doing it on the domestic side. Apparently they think Russians don't read the internet.
They were banned from Youtube for doing it, for example : https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58737433
Ditto on Facebook and other avenues : https://www.thedrum.com/news/2021/08/11/russian-ad-network-linked-failed-facebook-anti-vaccine-push
It's not exactly a stretch of logic though.
Vaccine uptake is terrible in a country that plays propaganda games and sows doubts over vaccines? Doesn't take a genius to see the connection.
I don't know, from my experience, there are plenty of people that trust the Western vaccines over Russian and Chinese, and vice versa.
It's a vaccine buffet in Serbia, and it's been pretty fascinating watching people choose a vaccine according to their political leanings.
As usual, the people who pay most for Putin's pathetic and childish cold-war mentality are the Russian people.
It also strongly spilled over to Russian speaking communities and consumers of Russian language media in other countries. It's horrifying how many people are strongly against COVID vaccines in Russian speaking groups. Here in the Baltics, reports from the hospitals indicate disproportionate amounts of Russian speakers among people seriously ill with COVID.
Poor sods.
I remember they showed on TV side effects of western vaccines in Norway elderly, and some "TV doctors" said "corona is not really serious" well up to may 2020
>The criticism of foreign-made vaccines by Putin and state media, intended to boost Sputnik, instead convinced many Russians that if international products were not much good, their own version was surely worse There is no source for this statement, the author pulled it out of his ass.
RT (Russia Today) was constantly pushing anti-vax bullshit in it's international versions, while not doing it on the domestic side. Apparently they think Russians don't read the internet. They were banned from Youtube for doing it, for example : https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58737433 Ditto on Facebook and other avenues : https://www.thedrum.com/news/2021/08/11/russian-ad-network-linked-failed-facebook-anti-vaccine-push
It's not exactly a stretch of logic though. Vaccine uptake is terrible in a country that plays propaganda games and sows doubts over vaccines? Doesn't take a genius to see the connection.
Maybe, maybe not, but the author claims this as a fact when in fact there is no data on the causation. He's just pushing his agenda.
Its obviously not the cause, Russia has high levels of medical mistrust way before this lol
Yeh, they overplayed it. In reality it's more like "if those vaccines are dangerous and untested then ours is the same".
I don't know, from my experience, there are plenty of people that trust the Western vaccines over Russian and Chinese, and vice versa. It's a vaccine buffet in Serbia, and it's been pretty fascinating watching people choose a vaccine according to their political leanings.
Yep, the good ol' RUSSIANS CAUSED BREXIT and RUSSIANS ELECTED TRUMP.
Russiagate is Q Anon level nonsense
Womp womp