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The real vectors of disinformation are social media, and antivax deaths are downstream of that.

But we don't have any kind of cultural immunity to the kind of propagandised and designed messaging that drives these campaigns.

In the absence of that, learning through consequences - and coming in with the messaging after they happen - is the only thing that can make a difference.



> But we don't have any kind of cultural immunity to the kind of propagandised and designed messaging that drives these campaigns

It seem like if we can find a vaccine for propaganda, we would get a lot of mileage out of it.




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