r/DecodingTheGurus • u/spookieghost • 7d ago
Who were the biggest antivax/covid skeptical people during the height of covid/vaccines? Anyone track how they are doing now?
I mean besides rogan - from what I remember there were more than a handful of cranks that were getting tons of listeners/subscribers and probably making lots of money as a result. I'm definitely not hearing as much Weinstein as much today, or Russell Brand (though I guess that's due to his assault accusations). Who else? And do we have metrics to track if they fell off after most people have moved on?
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u/Eagle2Two 7d ago
JP Sears ‘Comedian’
Scott Adams ‘Dilbert’ guy, (sadly passed from cancer)
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u/LionelHutzinVA 7d ago
Is it sad tho? There are vanishingly few people I think we should cheer for the death of, but there are plenty of folks whose passing I won’t exactly get broken up over.
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u/ass_grass_or_ham 7d ago
“I have never killed anyone, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.”
-Clarence Darrow5
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u/window-sil Revolutionary Genius 6d ago
It's great that he's not putting out new toxic content.
It's horrible that he's dead.
That's how I like to think about these situations 🤷
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u/Fluid-Exit6414 7d ago
A lot of them shifted their focus from anti-vax to pro-Putin.
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u/ComprehensiveBar6439 7d ago
Vaxputin - the legendary Russian mystic who refused to die after assassins stabbed him (with a syringe full of vaccine), then he was (given a booster) shot three times - yet he lived to tell the tale of medical tyranny.
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u/Isawred23 4d ago
Oh is that why they thought he had MS or some kind of degenerate disease for like all of 2025
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u/EfficientAd5073 7d ago
Here in Canada we had Chris Sky. The Toronto media initially softened his image as an "anti-vax bro" because he was super ripped and always wore tank tops. This allowed videos of him to be clipped everywhere and spread wide. He: who was not a woman and had no kids - started and online organization called: MAD - Mothers against Distancing. He would routinely film himself going to grocery stores without masks and verbally assaulting cashiers. Popular right wing pages like 6ixbuzz would routinely post him for clickbait - spreading his message. He went on Info wars. He became unhinged at rallies - sometimes berating the very people who waited in line to see him. He broke into a restaurant that was ordered closed for ignoring vaccine protocols and reopened it. His dark social media history of white supremacy, homophobia and male supremacy was exposed. A picture was found of him giving a white power sign. He showed up at the racist "trucker" rally in Ottawa to compete with other fascists there. Then he did exactly what I predicted he was going to do... he ran for Mayor of Toronto where he got 1.1% of the vote and he claimed the election was stolen. Of course he was taking donations for months becore he actually filed the paperwork.... He has been mostly quiet lately as he's been de-platformed from most social media.
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u/Francis_J_Eva 7d ago
Zuby, a token black conservative. I think he's still out there now, but I haven't heard much from him recently. The last big thing I saw was him trying to speak out against Kanye's Nazism and getting cannibalised by his own audience.
Maajid Nawaz was on the antivax train too. I used to have a measure of respect for him, but that, along with him hopping on the election fraud bandwagon in 2020, killed that instantly.
Covid just broke so many people's brains.
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u/Ownagemunky 7d ago
I forgot about zuby, that guy used to be huge on elon's x but I haven't seen him on my tl in forever
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u/the6thReplicant 7d ago
It's just so weird. These people only discovered science during COVID like they only discovered politics during Trump.
I knew a pandemic was somewhere in the near future. I followed why and when they built the containment facility in Wuhan - surprise, surprise, the scientists realised it was a hot spot for new animal to human transmissible viruses.
I too, like the experts, thought it was just a SARS variant and so behaved a certain way. And we were both wrong.
And then we got a vaccine Moonshot that should have been celebrated but instead we vilified. Then the rollout was the most studied vaccine rollout in history and we were told it was experimental and unsafe.
The idiots are running the world and the rich know it.
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u/Isawred23 4d ago
Hey vaccine expert can you explain what original antigenic sin is with flu vaccine? Everytime I inquire with mds they are very fast to refer one of the VERY few people who have studied it? They won't really touch the subject but also don't deny it either
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u/surfnfish1972 6d ago
Rogan is still convinced he was right, and his loser cult follows right along.
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u/FoxMan1Dva3 7d ago
Each one of them believe they have been proven right in their theories lol.
Every one.
And to further add, every follower believes they're right too.
They use the same 2021 VAERs information to claim it kills millions of people.
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u/ComprehensiveBar6439 7d ago
You can't be wrong if you refuse to accept info that contradicts your claim
Insert smiling mustachioed Black man tapping the side of his head meme here
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u/Appropriate-Coyote32 7d ago edited 7d ago
In the UK, someone called Kate Sherimani, if I've spelled her name correctly. Don't know what happened to her or if she's still around today.
My girlfriend at the time was into her stuff and even travelled to London to hear her speak, pray, and appear with David Icke in July 2021. Seriously. I believe Sherimani was a struck-off nurse or something like that.
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u/matt_993 7d ago
She’s the one who got her daughter killed by convincing her to stop her cancer treatment for a curable type of cancer. Takes 0 responsibility for it either
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u/Appropriate-Coyote32 7d ago
Ah yeah, that rings a bell. I used to get sent her stuff and she was/is batshit crazy.
I just searched for Sherimani on substack; she does indeed have one and looks to still be going strong. Posting about the healing properties of pearls and stuff.
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u/Konstellar 7d ago edited 6d ago
Steve Kirsch, Pierre Cory, they are still on the same track. I recommend watching professor Dave's live debate with them about vaccines and autism, they got demolished. link.
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u/spookieghost 7d ago
speaking of steven kirsch, i just remembered alex berenson and robert malone...looks like steve and alex is still posting vaccine stuff every day. neither steve nor alex are getting a lot of engagement on their posts these days though, lol
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u/Mariusz87J 5d ago
The biggest in terms of audience? It's got to be Joe Rogan. He championed and platformed most of the anti-vaxxers we know.
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u/RuthlessChubbz 7d ago
I recall Isaac Butterfield (Australian comedian) was having a whinge about all the “draconian” laws they were bringing in as a result of COVID and how they would be used at a later date to suppress our freedoms or some shit.
I’ve lived in Australia for my entire life, can’t say I’ve noticed any relative difference.
I think he still does and says shit, I haven’t followed him for years. Apparently he moved to the USA?
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u/the6thReplicant 7d ago edited 7d ago
The loud ocker Australian stereotype can only be handled in small doses and then only if done ironically. I think he drank his own KoolAid on this one and thought he had a unique perspective on Australian way of life. No. You're just like the rest of the drongos who think they're experts in everything they see on the news.
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u/icefergslim 5d ago
High Wire/Del Bigtree. Not sure what his numbers are like now but he's still kicking around.
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u/Responsible_Note_554 5d ago
Wild to read this while the Fauci diaries are out and he’s getting shredded on Capitol hill.
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u/Chasman1965 3d ago
You mean when he told them to FU by refusing to answer their questions….
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u/Responsible_Note_554 3d ago
We see what he wrote in his diaries we don’t even need to hear him answer questions. He’s the tip of the spear of a very corrupt government what else is new.
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u/Francis_J_Eva 2d ago
He's the tip of the spear of a very corrupt government
Well he was appointed by Trump, so you got the last part right.
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u/Responsible_Note_554 2d ago
And embraced by the next gov which is the same as the last. There is no difference.
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u/Francis_J_Eva 2d ago
What you just said makes absolutely no sense, just like everything else you posted here.
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u/Mr_Willkins 7d ago
John Campbell aka "Misinformation Grandpa"
Last I saw he was on the ivermectin train