Vaccine conspiracies are overtaking election disinformation, but we can & we must preempt this next wave of nonsense, new post- “COVID-19 Vaccine Conspiracies & the Next Wave of Disinformation” ⁦ @FPRI⁩ https://www.fpri.org/fie/covid-19-vaccine-next-wave-of-disinformation/

Most dangerous potential vaccine disinformation scenario near term. PizzaGate style acute mobilization or attack on a vaccine distribution point targeting health care workers, medical facilities. This can be anticipated & possibly disrupted if we prepare like we did election2020

Second less likely, but definitely harmful scenario would be vaccine disinfo inspired attack on supply lines for vaccines. Some unique vulnerabilities for deploying vaccines (cold temps, storage, scale, etc) will require different security than we'd normally consider

Long run bigger issue for vaccine conspiracies is resistance to vaccines even when they prove to be safe and effective. We need the vast majority to receive a vaccine, many say they won’t do it due to belief in conspiracies

Some good news. We just went through a year of disinfo waves, and we are slowly getting better at fighting it. Also think there are a couple reasons people will get COVID19 vaccine despite conspiracies. One....

We all at this point know someone who has died or become seriously ill from the virus, that’s different from other vaccines we receive. Flu, MMR etc. where we’ve not felt an acute shock. 2-......

People want to get back to normal, and we won’t be able to return to normal till some sort of herd immunity arrives. Question by late summer will quickly become, “do you want to stop wearing a mask, staying at homes, schools, Xmas/Thanksgiving 2021? Then take the damn vaccine!”