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Why is Japan failing so badly on vaccinations? (washingtonpost.com)
2 points by xtnmclain 1878 days ago
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- Bezos invests billions in covid vaccine supply chain (see source [1] below).

- The news publication Bezos purchases promotes vaccines & asks why intelligent, critical thinking populations such as those in Japan aren't getting vaccinated

- I'm here wondering... How much American "news media" is consumed in Japan. Hopefully very little-- as it's mostly propaganda benefiting owners of "news media" companies (i.e. uber mogul owners, entertainment industry & government [2] mouthpieces).

"Bezos vowed to invest Amazon’s anticipated $4 billion second-quarter profit into adapting to the demands of the coronavirus" [1]

[1] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/05/amazons-coronavirus-...

"Operation Mockingbird is an alleged large-scale program of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that began in the early years of the Cold War and attempted to manipulate news media for propaganda purposes." [2]

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

(by "news media" I am intentionally using a positively sounding euphemism for what I do not consider to actually be informative)